All the occasions that are guaranteed to make food taste like dross — award ceremonies and charity dinners — they cook a special banqueting dross to befit the occasion.

As befits an occasion mired in the style diktats of 'perceived good taste', she looked elegant, traditional and rather beautiful.

The mood was one of celebration in conditions that befitted the occasion.

Both teams served the enthusiastic crowd of three or four hundred with an exciting end-to-end contest played in a manner befitting the occasion.