Linda, a Tribute To My Best Friend Who Died a Few Years Ago,

Linda Bentley, I remember the first time we met you came round for a coffee. I remember it well, we sat talking for hours, just you and me. Over the next few years, We must have drunk hundreds of cups. Life was a roll of downs, Then ups. I remember the first time I met your Mum. All dressed in pale blue. I think she was going to some special do. I remember Jills first birthday party, even the dress she wore. The house was full of friends and family and more. Val and Grandma, Carol and Jane all of their familys as well. The house was packed, certainly a tale to tell. The Bell Inn at Ingolmells where we all went for a drink. Then round to our caravan, coffees to sink. I remember Claire as a child, the hours she used to spend at our home. Every Monday on the way to Slimming World she got credit for her phone. I remember all the things she used to help me with. shopping, baking, washing the dishes the cups and the plates. All this before she was even eight. I remember so many things that we used to do. The bonfire parties at your house. All the same crowd their having the time of their lives. Then the big bash for my big Five O. I wanted a really big show. So we prepared all the food at your house, Then carried it all over to mine. Only just got it all ready in time. I did the cake it was a huge chocolate train. Something big enough to get all the candles on was my aim. Life throws some really awful things at you. Some so bad you just don’t know what to do. Our friendship spanned almost thirty years A lot of fun a lot of tears. When the police came round to our house that night, I didn’t even realize you had gone. I thought you were just ill again, I found out almost a week later on Especially as we had only been chatting a couple or so weeks before, About the past. On that day you looked so well with all your make up on, I thought you were on the mend at last. On your birthday in May I thought of you, All the things we had been through, Rest in peace. Love Pat