I haven’t had much time to draw the last couple of days, and this is why. For years now Lawrence has fantasized about having a masters and servants dinner party, and so we decided to pull out all the stops for his birthday this weekend. I was so busy pretending to be a butler that I actually butled. The servants all ate in the kitchens and stood whenever any of the family entered, Granny had a bell to ring for us with, we shuffled them in between different rooms for different parts of the meal, and stood in attendance by the doors and served them tea. We even had a token American heiress who came into gold suddenly and was now traveling England in search of a marriageable title - she’s the one with the revolutionary haircut. Social order did breakdown after about 10 in the evening. Tails were discarded, ties were loosened and servants danced with masters.

Exhausting. But definitely one of our crowning achievements as far as soirées go.