It later transpired that during the entire Meat Roasting Spectacular, the "Missing Hen" had been there in the herbaceous border sitting on her eggs, forced to endure a rich pageant of sights, sounds and smells.
The Gin Ladies from next door and two or three other Die Hards stayed on to the bitter end around the fire at 3.15 am. So in effect the cooking, eating and drinking had been continuous for 23 hours. Stuart agreed to extinguish all 98 candles and suspended nightlights in the interest of Isabelle's peace of mind...
Despite my own misgivings about spiralling costs of items other than deer & beer, for instance huge outdoor candles, M&S chocolate desserts etc, there's no doubt this flickering night time constellation greatly added to the general ambience.
For the incubating hen, the highlight was probably either Hendrix's interpretation of "The Star Spangled Banner", or Eddie Van Halen's "Eruption".
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There were ground fires appearing all over the place by 3am.
There was even a danger of kettle elements being blown around the garden, had the candles not been extinguished in the nick of time.
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