Work, huh, what is it good for?

Absolutely nothing! Well, no, it's good for money for one thing. And I'm lucky enough to have a great time at work most days.

I only have one more shift left at work, at the owner's party on Saturday, before I leave for Minehead next Wednesday, so I'm having a little look back at my time at Capone's.

When I started I had no experience of being that side of the bar. Sure I had spent most of my 4 years at uni on the other side and watched thousands of pints being poured, but I'd never done it myself. Turns out I was a natural, a few mistakes early on but that's to be expected.

I did make some good mistakes as well, the one that springs straight to mind is when somebody asked me for water with orange and lime. Now, what they wanted was a slice of orange and a slice of lime in water, but we also do lime cordial and orange cordial... guess what I did.

I'm not going to put all of them down though, they're mostly commonplace stuff (getting the wrong size order, wrong flavour drink, forgetting a drink from a long list etc.) Instead I'll regale you with some of the more entertaining parts, the ones that hopefully won't lose meaning in word.

Some of the acts that have been on stage have been amazing (and some haven't, but we won't mention them *cough*Scooch*cough*) such as Beardsmith, Ego Mania and the only band I got to see twice as they played the final Saturday, Supersaurus. I'd encourage you to look some of them up, particularly Beardsmith as they do some original stuff as well as some great covers. I never thought I'd hear Metallica covered at a Haven park.

There's also been some great comedians, a circus, some wrestling and other acts come to visit, but the group that most deserve a mention are the funstars. Haven's equivalent to the Redcoats, they were the people that provided the entertainment by putting on gameshows, singing or doing anything else. From peak season, only 1 week after I started, they put on the big team show every Thursday and Sunday. Called 'A Night At The Movies' this would feature scenes from Men In Black, The Lion King, Singing In The Rain and the finale Dirty Dancing. It also had a Halloween feature around half term that included Thriller and the Time Warp.

So all in all, as much as I'm looking forward to Minehead, I'll be sad to leave and I can't wait to come back next year.

This week's entertainment:

The piece that inspired the title, as covered by Jackie Chan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-bA9FYB8HY&feature=fvwrel

And by Beardsmith, an original song called 'Arcadia': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4K1KkGfwRg