candle light reflects on gleaming crystal...(paddy took this shot!)
Sol and I dropped The XP at puppy storage and headed up the coast on Friday night. We were staying with Mistress_Angelicca and paddy for the weekend again, with plans to attend Paramount and absoleen's formal dinner party on Saturday night.
It's been a while since I attended a formal kinky dinner party. I missed the last one I was invited to at Uber, dammit, and still fantasize about the seriously kinky formal dinner Midori and I once discussed at the Museum of Contemporary Art ...
For readers who've not heard of them, check out this page promoting an EOS dinner in Edmonton. There is also a Formal Dining group on Fetlife. You can see formal dinners have the potential to be a lot of fun and we were looking forward to this one.
As always we got to bed very late on Friday, after trying out sol's and my canes on paddy (sol had already retired). On Saturday Rastas, a very respected member of the Oz scene who I'd long wanted to meet (he also made some thoughtful posts in my National BDSM event in Oz - Discussion Group) came to visit. I loved the long hours spent in great conversation that followed. Amongst other things we discussed jaffle irons (an Australian camp fire icon) and sol's and my plans for a kinky community.
Suddenly it was late afternoon and time to head to Paramount and absoleen's, especially as subs were required to arrive an hour early to be briefed about the evening's service.
Required dress for the evening was formal, kinky if you desired but definitely dress up. The male dominants wore suits and ties. Mistress Angelicca wore a long PVC gown with a black lace jacket and black boots. I went for vanilla black silk because I had to do some shopping on the way, with my PVC jacket to add when it became cooler. Subs wore what their owners' decided, and all looked very colorful. I dressed sol in leather collar and cuffs, black leather pants, a black T shirt and his scarlet embroidered waistcoat. I'll describe paddy's outfit later...
The journey across Brisbane took about half an hour. It nearly took much longer because we hand trouble finding the Allen's spearmint leaves lollies that absoleen had specifically requested we bring (along with valium LOL). Thank God I was able to snaffle the last four packets at a petrol station!
When we arrived we were greeted by our hosts, as well as the lovely "second slut in [Paramount's] life". While the subs were briefed in the kitchen we dominants hung out by the beautiful outdoor pool. The night was brilliantly clear and the sky was full of stars.
Later, when summoned, we walked down to the outdoor dinner table. I will never forget the sight of this exquisitely set table gleaming in candle light, with our subs standing behind each place. It actually gave me a shiver down my spine.
We dominants sat, our subs assisting (probably the first time sol has ever done that for me!). Then like the best servants, they all vanished. We all studied the round dinner table:
In the center of the table, directly on top of the carefully ironed white linen table cloth, were about a dozen white candles of differing height. The beautiful way the wax cascaded as they melted kept Mistress Angelicca entertained all night. More candles and fairy lights decorated the walls and ceiling of the outdoor pagoda area where we sat. Place settings were formal, every item of cutlery was polished to perfection, every linen napkin perfectly ironed and folded. The design of our name tags and menus was worthy of the best wedding.
The menu - six courses - was a delight:
Drink orders were taken. We all sat back and the conversation resumed. On one side of me was ED (EvilDeed), who's two female subs were serving that night. On my left was Rafn :
This was Rafn's first kinky event. Ever. That takes courage. Rafn and I had some great conversations and I'm really glad he enjoyed the evening (I hope he won't mind my quoting the comment he later left on veil's Fetlife wall "Thank you and all the others who made my night a memorable one. I enjoyed meeting all the new people. Even though I walked in not knowing a single person, I walked out with new friends and fresh ideas. I think I shall enjoy "partaking". :-)" ).
Our Maitre D (paddy) soon appeared, now dressed in very fetching latex with a silk cummerband and bow tie, and fabric cuffs LOL:
The back of the outfit was particularly fetching, and resulted in paddy having a very red ass by the end of the evening:
The courses - which were traditionally and formally arranged - began..
A salad course - crisp green salad with slivers of beef marinated with lemon grass (fucking brilliant, excuse my language but it was) - was followed by soup (fresh chicken and sweet corn soup with a roll) and then the entree (Americans reading this: entree to the rest of the world means the smaller course you call the starter): a zuchinni slice with goats cheese and caramelized onions:
Serving plates of food on large dishes is a great skill. The subs did VERY well. Removing courses went equally smoothly.
After the entree we paused for a break around the pool, where we were served a palette cleanser of lemon sorbet. The evening was proceeding well, so we dominants decided to up the pressure on the servers via a series of challenges. Throughout the evening we had requested football scores (at precisely 15 minute intervals ... which sol had been delivering perfectly). Now we upped the ante.
The two challenges I remember best involved eggs. First we requested accurate info on the price of eggs in China. The result was the following spreadsheet!!:
Cheeky buggers. So next we requested info on the "chicken and egg" philosophical debate. To make it harder, we demanded proof of which came first: the chicken or the egg. Absoleen's groan when she heard this request echoed from the kitchen, LOL. We returned to the dinner table with anticipation of how the subs would achieve this. We decided if we didn't like their response we'd just drag two of them up and make them debate it!
A main course (slow cooked lamb shanks with mashed potatoes and greens) (a very tasty vegetarian option was available) was now keeping us busy:
This was followed by a classic Crepe Suzette for dessert:
Sol was pleased to help make the sauce for this. He then delivered the subs' response to our chicken / egg question: five pages of philosophical debate with a final page featuring the twelve footnotes he'd quoted:
I read this out to the dominants during dessert. Here's a bit, courtesy of Wiki:
A lively debate on the chicken and the egg resulted!The chicken or the egg causality dilemma is commonly stated as "which came first, the chicken or the egg?" Chickens hatch from eggs, but eggs are laid by chickens, making it difficult to say which originally gave rise to the other. To ancient philosophers, the question about the first chicken or egg also evoked the questions of how life and the universe in general began.[1]
Cultural references to the chicken and egg intend to point out the futility of identifying the first case of a circular cause and consequence. It could be considered that in this approach lies the most fundamental nature of the question. A literal answer is somewhat obvious, as opposed to the logical fallacy of the metaphorical view, which sets a metaphysical ground on the dilemma. So, to understand its metaphorical meaning better, it could be reformulated as follows: "Which came first, X that can't come without Y, or Y that can't come without X?"
Then it was time for a fantastic cane dance performance by veil.
Veil danced exquisitely around the dining table, extending the cane to each dominant, who laid a stroke across her behind:
She was joined by one of ED's subs for the final moments. We gave them a resounding round of applause:
Then it was time to move back to the pool for cigars. But first we assembled the serving staff to thank them. Here they are, kicking up their heels lol:
We thanked our hosts, and absoleen again thanked the subs, who had truly done an amazing job. And then it was time to get comfortable and relax. In fact I got so comfortable everyone kept teasing me for falling asleep!
In the car home the Great Egg and Chicken Debate continued, LOL....
Photos:
Ms160, Mistress_Angelicca + paddy
Ms160, Mistress_Angelicca + paddy
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