Sunday, 29 August 2010

Black tie dining - Ecccentrics style!

Every year, Michael’s friend Fred organises a dinner around the August bank holiday – the annual Eccentrics Dinner. It started off about 15 years ago as a birthday celebration and grew from there. It’s a formal, black-tie, five-course meal and is always held in an unusual location, usually somewhere in the Lake District. We arrive, set up tents, change into formal wear and sit down for a meal. Previous locations for the meal have included the Butter Bowl, a natural crater-shaped dip in the landscape; a field (it rained heavily that year!), up a mountain and in a disused railway tunnel.

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