Alas my love you do me wrong, to cast me out so discourteously. For I have loved you so long, oh my lady Greensleeves. "Nearish" to my home is a medieval theme restaurant called Greensleeves and instead of working as your common garden variety waitress at a normal restaurant, I opted for the "drama" and "wenched" at Greensleeves as a teenager. This was during the eighties. It was kinda like theatre and I loved it. Some of the people I met there became very important to me and still influence, inspire and help to shape my life today. I worked there for 12 happy years, made friends, fell in love, learned to party and adore live music. It was there that I was introduced to the concept of work hard and play hard and quite importantly it was my training ground for learning to work under pressure. Those of you who have worked in restaurants will agree, the pressure is unlike any other industry. There is always an element of chaos. Some of the people are still there, one lady has worked at Greensleeves every weekend for 33 years!! It gets into your blood.

A few weeks ago, I had the occasion to go as a guest to Greensleeves with a group of friends. It was wonderful. Everything - and- nothing has changed. I could still recall the script of the show word for word. The food looks and tastes the same, but the feast halls and the kitchen have been updated and modernised. The costumes for the serving staff (wenches and lackeys) and the entertainment staff are fresh, new and sparkly and like all successful businesses they have succumbed to technology - all orders are computerised. No more handwritten orders. I can remember Aldie and I used to scream with laughter at some of the creative spellings and abbreviations used for the drinks orders by the wenches and lackeys. And then we would bawl them out for being unclear. It was also a great way of getting to know them, you could tell so much from their handwriting and the way they listed their orders. I can remember the girls were inclined to be slow and ultra neat and the boys fast and furious and very cocky.

I had a wonderful evening. It was a happy reunion - Aldie and I even considered going back to run for the lackeys and wenches for old times sake. Perhaps we will, watch this space.