Kumala,
As you have an inquisitive mind I will say no more than this, my mistake became apparent at dinner the first evening, when having given my order and sitting at table with a very un-camp and very proper (apparently) elderly ex-army officer, an apparition that made Julian Clary look like Rambo burst out from the kitchen wearing nothing but a very anorexic G string exclaiming to a point of campness beyond description, " Well, is the grilled cows tw@t for straightface or effing Colonel Queenship here?"
Actually I was having the Dover Sole, and the elderly gentleman was a Major. The food was exceptionally good however, and the rest of dinner was conducted in a most agreeable fashion, his "Queenship" discussing the South African question very informedly and with the most astonishing applomb, having ignored the outburst totally. Of such stuff was the British Empire made !
There was more, but this is a polite thread.
Cheers.
S.