Full Evening Dress

A Buff Plymouth Rock rooster with solid golden-buff plumage in a black evening tailcoat, white waistcoat and white bow tie, seated upright in a worn green velvet wingback armchair with his scaled rooster legs resting on a velvet footstool, a walnut valve radio, a small paper Union flag in a jam jar and a glass of whisky on the side table beside him, a lamplit London sitting room with heavy curtains drawn

From the Armchair

Tails, white waistcoat, a glass of something amber and the wireless turned up for the second half. There were tickets, other years. He prefers it from the armchair, where nobody minds when he joins in.

12 September 2026