Well, plan an outdoor Cornish Feast event over open fires in May in Cornwall, and you have to be prepared for anything!

Annoyingly, the weather the previous day and the following day was absolutely GLORIOUS. Even the morning of the event was beautiful sunshine, and we REFUSED to believe the forecast could possibly be correct, that a storm was on its way…

Sadly for once, the weather forecast was correct. Almost on cue, just as the marquee was set up beautifully with ivy and fairy lights, the bar stocked and menus and flower jars on tables, in come the clouds. Here at Lydcott, you can actually see the weather rolling in from the sea… so as our day guests started arriving at 3pm clad in head to toe waterproofs, those sensible enough to have booked a cabin were able to hunker down until the worst of it had cleared. (Thankfully it did, eventually!)

So the first hour was ‘memorable’ shall we say, huddled under the shelter of our somewhat less-than-sturdy marquee, taking it in turns to poke the roof and release the pooling water before it released itself on us! Don’t worry – this was that marquee’s last ‘hurrah’ – for our next event we have fabulous plans for a significant upgrade to the facilities!

Thankfully our wonderful guests could appreciate the torrential donwpour, thunder and lightning as merely ‘authentic Cornish weather’! (well we try our best to deliver authenticity here – we promised a Cornish Feast, and I guess we delivered in more ways than one!)