B is for Best Friend

Another day another letter, today my friends is the letter B.  I have many memories for the letter B, but the most important one is for Best Friend!

Friends, they come and go, as children growing up, you make up and brake up.  Friendship can be a fickle thing but a best friend, is one who sticks by you loyally over the years, that is something special, something to be treasured.  I am a lucky girl as I do have friends who I treasure.  Over  the years there have been many a tough time for me and my friends and having each other is one of the things that has got us through those times.  I truly have been blessed with many wonderful friends in my life, some I have met through school, some through work and more recently some through Social Media.  I even have my diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis to thank for meeting two of them.

There are two friends though that feel like they  have been part of my life for forever.  That picture above, brings a warm glow to my heart as it reminds me of both of the friendships. One I have known all my life and is more like a sister and the other is one who I have been best friends with  for around 30 years. There are times we have drifted apart, boyfriends have got in the way and stolen our attention but somehow we always ended up back together again.

From children to women we have grown together and sometimes when I think about it I can't believe we are all heading towards our late 30's.  That's the weirdest thing to say as in my heart I still feel like we're those two little girls in the picture! I can not have children myself but I am honoured and blessed to be the Godmother to my friend Nicola's gorgeous children. My friend Rachael also has a beautiful little girl and I truly hope that their children get to form the wonderful friendships that I have been lucky enough to have.

"We'll be friends forever won't we Pooh?" asked Piglet

"Even longer" Pooh answered. - A.A. Milne  

 Some other memories:

Above are 5 of the programmes I loved as a child, click on the links below to see clips of them.

1. Button Moon

2. Mr Ben

3. The Banana Splits

4. Bagpuss

5. The Basil Brush Show

6. Banana Man

My first crush 

Only this weekend they showed one of my favourite movies as a child, Bugsy Malone which originally came out in 1976.  I'm not sure how old  I was when I first saw it but I still enjoyed watching at the age of 35!  Not that I ever had any aspirations to be an actress, I loved the way they were all dressed in the movie and the kid who played Bugsy was probably my first crush.  They all looked so grown up to me or at least behaved it.

Finally a teenage girls life always has a boy band or two in!

Bros and the Backstreet Boys, these were two groups I loved in my teens!