On Monday night I read at the Liver Bard`s Ma Boyles, which is next to
 the little church yard where - in 1943 - one of the Wrens from the
Western Approaches headquarters (which was just up the road) gave
half of a - then impossible to get - banana to one of the fourteen 
year old cablegram lads who used to deliver cables to them, and
 rewarded that young lad`s taste buds with an absolute delight of
 ecstatic bliss....This is his feeble (limericked) belated thank you.

Lady tar, though we`re both old and grey

I will evermore cherish that day

When, like heavenly manna,

You gave half your banana

And sent me ambrosially away.