Lock-Down has just passed the halfway mark and I have completed my spring cleaning and all my chores around the house... Packing all the cupboards as well and cleared out all the goods that were not needed by me...My entertainment was coming to a rapid end and DSTV was just full of repeats and streaming was rapidly eating into my internet...Chatting to family and friends on Skype or on a cellphone was becoming a bore as well, as we were all in the same position, locked in at our homes like caged lions and lionesses wondering when will we be let out to roam again...The only thing that was saving my sanity was my music collection, but even that was nearly run completely through... Wondering what would be next...Out came my photo albums from a chest, yes nearly thirty of them spanning nearly fifty years...Out they came one by one, paging through each wondering what memories I would see...Laughing and laughing at all the photographs and how the fashions had changed and wondered what had happened to many of my friends and persons who used to spend time parting and clubbing with me...When suddenly a photo of Linda and Emmi caught my eye... Looking at the photograph reminded me of how we had met... Into the hotel, I walked to join a few of my friends for a drink or two before returning home and retiring to bed for the evening... There she stood in her skin tight jeans and her high heel shoes and her denin bunny jacket waiting for the elevator to take us to the second floor, in she got standing close to the door and me standing at the back of the elevator wondering what brought a stunning looking lady to a hotel like this...Everything about her was a perfect ten from her red curly shoulder-length hair to her sexy figure and her long legs all the way to heaven...The elevator jolted to a sudden halt and we both exited into the ladies' bar we walked and my friends started to catcall because they thought she was with me...Little did they know we had nothing to do with each other...She walked over to the bar and said the normal for me, Dan, please...Dan took a tall glass and poured some passionfruit into a glass and filled it with some lemonade and a few cubes of ice and gave her the guitar that was standing behind the bar...Off she went to the small stage in the corner of the bar and took a seat on the stool...After sipping on her drink she put the glass on the table next to her before strumming a few chords on her guitar...Dan looked at me and said the normal for you Billy, yes please, I replied, Dan took a beer from the fridge and handed it to me...and I joined my friends...There we were sitting and sipping on our drinks, the lady started to sing...Wow, wow I said as the sound of her voice really surprised me... Suddenly there was total silence from our corner as my friends were just as surprised by her voice as I was...The song was sung and everyone in the bar was clapping and she took another sip from her glass before singing the next song...The more she sang the more she reminded me of Joan Biaz...as she was a favorite female singer of mine for years...The time flew and soon it was eleven and the lady was on her way home, not before reminding us that she would be back on Thursday evening again....There I was totally shocked by her caliber of singing and couldn't wait for Thursday evening...For the next few days, all I could see was the picture of this sexy looking singer in my head and wanted to see her singing again...Thursday evening had arrived and there I was to hear and appreciate her fantastic voice again...There I was sitting at the table next to the stage, she walked into the bar and collected her guitar and her drink and took her place on the stage and started to sing...It wasn't long and the bar was full and the only two-seats that were open were at the table I was sitting at...While she was singing a lady stood at the door listening to her, when she waved at the lady to take a seat at my table...The lady walked over to the table and introduced herself as Emmi and said I hope I am not encroaching on your space...No, no I replied feel free to sit and listen to her sing...After a few more songs the lady took a break and walked over to our table and started to talk to Emmi and introduced herself to me as Linda...There they sat while they were chatting and I could see that they were friends...Off to the bar I went and got another beer and a passionfruit and lemonade for each of them...Coming back to the table with the drinks they both looked at me and said it was not necessary, they can get their own drinks, looking at them I said I was just been polite like I had been taught when I was young...Both of them smiled at me and said not very often that you find a gentleman where Linda is singing...The carried on chatting for a few more minutes before Linda returned to the stage to carry on singing...Emmi looked at me and said, I hope you don't mind if I put a tot of vodka in my drink...Up I got and took her glass to the bar and asked Dan if he could put a tot of vodka in the glass for me...On returning to the table Emmi asked, "What is your name???" Smiling I said how rude can I be...Billy is my name...There we sat enjoying the music and chatting for the rest of the evening...It was soon eleven and it was time for Linda to pack up for the end of another enjoyable evening of incredible singing...Off home, they went... The Bar became my new place of entertainment on Tuesdays and Thursdays...It wasn't long Linda and Emmi and I became good friends as we all had one thing in common music...Linda found out that I also played guitar and enjoyed singing, thou not nearly as good as her...and that she also did songwriting... and our interests turned us into life long friends, even though we don't see each other all that often but we never forget to wish each other on our birthdays...Yes, we have been wishing each other for nearly forty years...Yes, it was her birthday on the 26th of march...The day before we were all caged in...I hope you all keep safe for the rest of the days of Lock-Down...