Royal Over-Seas League

Mad Hatters Tea Party

Hosted by ROSL
Thursday 28th july 2011

ROSL members who chose to sit out in the garden last Thursday evening (28 June) were rather surprised to be met by sixty Inter-Clubbers, complete with mad hats, playing croquet, enjoying  Pimm’s served from tea pots and nibbling on giant cheese straws.

Inter-Club members enjoyed a feast of scrummy delights served from vintage cake stands, and wine supped from tea cups. The Flabbergast Theatre company delighted all with Boris and Sergey’s ‘Puppet Poker Pit’; uncompromising and exciting physical theatre drawing on the Bunraku style of puppetry creating a fantastical performance which would have made Lewis Carroll proud.

Great effort was made by all to look the part, but the prize for the ‘maddest’ hat was awarded, most deservedly, to Vincent Syson for his spectacular musically themed hat adorned with organ stops.

The evening concluded with an espresso cup of port and a return to the garden to enjoy the gorgeous summer evening turn to night. A warm thank you must go to the Vintage Table company for providing the crockery, LKLily for creating stunning arrangements, the ROSL catering staff, Thomasz and his team and of course Hassan the chef.