My best friend....
..is one of the nicest people I have ever met and I will be eternally privileged that she returns the favour by calling me her best friend too (blimey - that sounds a bit Enid Blyton but I don't care if it is 6 year old I love her).

In 2006 I split up with my boyfriend and was about to be homeless. Sadly lacking in enormous amounts of money I was looking down the barrell of sharing a grotty house with various randoms or living alone in an even grottier bedsit with only the walls to talk to. Anyhoooo, about 6 months earlier I had started a new job and was introduced to 'soon to be best friend but didn't realise it at the time'. Before I broke up with ex I hadn't had anything to do with future BF (not because I didn't like her but just that our paths never crossed all that often) but when the office found out I had nowhere to live future BF stepped up and said that she had a little annex down the end of her garden and would I like to rent it (with full use of the main house - a detached thatched cottage, get in!) She said that I would have to put up with her 3 children but she was a divorcee so it would be nice to have some adult company. So, I start living down the end of her garden (bit like a fairy but swearier) and immediately am treated like one of the family by her, her 3 kids and her mum.

I lived there for a year and in that time she saw me through hours and hours of pouring out my heart and drunken ramblings from rather unsuitable men I saw, made me eat my dinner when I went down to 7 1/2 stone from some mental eating disorder, saw me through mild pneumonia and the 2 resultant cracked ribs from coughing so much, lent me money, hugged me when I needed it, put me to bed when I was drunk, forced me back into the big wide world again and basically loved me better. Eventually I found a future husband through her encouragement and left her family home to live with him. If it hadn't been for her I would never have ended up this happy and I get married in 2 months :-)

The best part is that after I had moved 170 miles away to be with future husband she decided that she wanted to live down here too so sold up and brought entire family down to the south coast and now lives 5 minutes away. As future husband is away for 6mths (forces - not prison!) she has made up her spare room as my own and until he comes back I live like a child from a broken home - at my house during the week and at her house at the weekend. She has also got married and her husband is, thankfully, also one of the nicest and funniest and, handily, patient men in the world who doesn't care how much I hang out at their house like a bad smell.

She is going to be my Maid of Honour in December, however she doesn't realise that she has done me the honour by being in my life. I love you Vicki :-)
(Senora Veranos cannot and will not so ner..., Fri 3 Oct 2008, 16:49, 3 replies)

clicking...
...you had me at "like a fairy but swearier"
(The Incredible Sulk Finally remembered his password on, Sat 4 Oct 2008, 0:29, closed)

Hahahahah
That is one of the funniest things anyone has said to me all day so does that mean that you now qualify for the QOTW too??! :-)
(Senora Veranos cannot and will not so ner..., Sat 4 Oct 2008, 1:15, closed)

What a star
everyone deserves a great friend like yours! Am glad for you that you found her!
(Bezmina, Mon 6 Oct 2008, 14:46, closed)