Getting a job at Paradise was Miranda Longlady's idea. We ran into her one day in a shopping center and she showed an advert on the information board. Part-time non-union nursing assistants needed - 35p/hour. Ideal part-time job for outgoing, helpful women of any age. Miranda decided to give it a try and was hoping to persuade her sister Melody to work with her. But when Melody finally left the store with a loaf of bread in her hands and read the advertisement, she declared that it was not for her. At that time, she had just entered the punk phase: an earring in the shape of a cube dangled from her pierced ear, and an appliqué with intellectual obscenity was on her T-shirt.