I was always destined to be friends with someone who starts a sentence with “My aunt the white witch”. Boo has worked alongside me fighting the good fight against a common foe aka Poison Pen, for as long as I can remember. She has shared in the tears, the complete despair and frustration of working in a souless job. She too has been on the receiving end of many a stinging verbal attack from the Evil Queen and has also been there to bolster my spirits when it’s been my turn. In fact, after a particularly vicious verbal onslaught a bar of chocolate or cup of tea would somehow find its way to me, as if by magic, reminding me I was not alone.
Boo usually cycles into work, multi-tasking at the same time by wearing a face mask startling many a motorist en route. Even with a green face she still looks more supermodel than Wicked Witch of the West although another of her assets is she is blissfully unaware of drop-dead good looks; don’t we all love friends like those! She has the most infectious laughter together with a ditzy good-natured personality.
On one of our Christmas shopping trips when we shopped ‘til we dropped pausing only to visit a coffee shop; she remarked that I was probably glad I wasn’t a family member as I wouldn’t have to receive any of the tat she had bought for Christmas presents!
My particular favourite story about her is when one of her beloved cats went missing and she toured the neighbourhood, tin of cat food in hand. Finding her cat she brought him home but was perplexed when he spent the next week or so under her bed hissing & spitting when no amount of coaxing would entice him out to eat. The mystery was solved when her own errant cat eventually climbed in through the cat-flap one morning and took an instant dislike to the usurper who was installed under the bed. Realising her mistake, Boo at once liberated the fake cat so that he could be reunited with his family.
A chat over a quick latte with Boo can restore my sinking spirits on any rainy day and like many of my friends out there past and present who have been around to give me a lift when life has seemed a tad unfair …………. thank you for being there!
Boo sounds like the kind of friend we would all love to have. How wonderful 🙂
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Life would most certainly be dull without her
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Boo sounds the most fabulous kind of friend…but I am secretly despising her for looking good in a face mask! 🙂
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I’m guessing that you too would look good in green gunk and a bin liner – I’d just look like a troll
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I think that me, you and Boo need to hang out in these masks and rock it together because I’m pretty sure there’s nothing troll about you! Only can we spike the tea/coffee when we hang out?
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Boo sounds like a great gal. Your photo is priceless 🙂
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They’d need a crane to hoist my rather large bottom onto the back of that bike
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What would we do without friends…
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Just a friend’s laughter can make you smile and comfort you in just the same way that a favourite old sweater can
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🙂
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That story about her mistakenly bringing the wrong cat home was both hysterical and priceless.
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She was lucky not to have been featured on the British equivalent of “Most Wanted” as the treacherous neighbourhood catnapper!
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love the story about the cat, must have been the twin cat?
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Alternatively, she may need another contact lens prescription
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I LOVE that header quote so much!
My Boo is Missy K. I just love her.
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It’s an old fashioned Yorkshire saying that my Dad says to me all the time!
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Boo kidnaped a cat! hahahahah
That’s a good one, it made my day, tell Boo thanks for the laugh and thank you for sharing.
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Funnily enough, she moved not long after that!
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Nice story, nicely written.
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Thank you!
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Hehehe! What a funny story about the look a likey cat! Boo seems like a fab human! =^.^=
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Of course she is; any animal lover is the bomb!
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I thought Boo was … a cute dog on Facebook, but it seams like you have a cute Boo too. Love the story about the cat … how brilliant wasn’t that. I feel a bit sorry for the neighbors cat .. when not wanted any longer. The photo is FAB! Is it yours ????
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The photo was sent me by a young Turkish friend and Boo is cute!
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Boo is very cute … love little gentle soul too. *smile
Photo so fun!!!!
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As I read what came to mind was Ecclesiastes 4:9-12. Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor:
10 If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up.
11 Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone?
12 Though one may be overpowered,
two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.
A definite affirmation for your writing!
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Thank you and we do all need friends to give us a helping hand on a occasion or a shoulder to cry on or share some good news with us.
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Oh my gosh, the cat thing is so funny. Did your friend find that cat’s actual owner? I can’t imagine mistakenly bringing home someone else’s pet by accident!
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She said that she did see the cat after that sitting contently in another garden so I’m sure that everyone was happy to reunited with each other
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Nothing quite as good as a friend who goes way back and has your back.
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And I’ve never known her lose her temper which is also an added bonus!
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Boo sounds like the friend we all need but she might need specs – that poor cat!
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It was purely a case of mistaken identity; hmm wonder if that would work with teenagers!
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I like the sound of Boo but surely the face mask must be dried solid and require cracking off once she got to work? Great multi tasking though!
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Fortunately she wears one of those greasy ones and I have to say she does have amazing skin!
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I like Boo! What a great idea to combine face-masks with biking. Never thought of that!
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You can bet the first time I would break down and have to spend a couple of hours looking like Kermit
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But think how smooth your skin would be 😉
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Dallas, will my last “BounyBar”, a small punnet of strawberrys and a big hug help? Girl, you really seem to be “down in the dumps”!? You are lucky to have a friend like your Boo.
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We all need a few good friends Carina; life would be incomplete without them. I am bone tired from the past couple of weeks and sadly it’s taken its toll
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hope you always have someone that’s the wind beneath your wings tink…you certainly do your share of lifting others. chin up, arms out, on your toes, close your eyes….now fly…xo
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I love that phrase Rhonda and thank you for your kind words which I am so of need of this morning x
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{{{hugs}}} here anytime you need them…xo
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Ah – what would life be without friends. My friends are so dear to me 🙂
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Me too – a chat and a good laugh makes my day (preferably with some wine)!
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Great friends just become a part of the family don’t they? Sounds like she is a great one!
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She’s a keeper, that’s for sure!
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I was reading your post from my iPad at Starbucks and didn’t have access to my stash of quotes. So I had to come back to add the quote. It seems like Boo is a person that has the ability to rekindle the inner spirit.
“In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.”
Albert Schweitzer
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I liked that and life would be so very dull and empty without those we love in it
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We all need a Boo in our life, that you have one proves only that you are a great friend yourself and thus deserving. Have to give to get, I always suspected this about you!
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I’m touched and I feel blessed to have some good people in my corner
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I love that old Yorkshire saying, and how true is it when you look around. I had a Boo in my life as a teenager, they are priceless. She now still lives in Uk and I am in Oz but we still keep in touch and the 3 times I have been back to visit it is as though it was yesterday and we just pick up were we left off, the years roll away and we are giggly teenagers again. The saying is you can choose your friends but you are stuck with your family…
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Absolutely, but the giggling and the catching up is one of the best things about good friends
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Sure is 🙂
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So funny, having installed a “fake” cat under her bed 🙂 So glad you have a friend like Boo. We all need those type of people in our lives. Have a wonderful Easter and long weekend.
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Any animal lover and I are always going to be friends
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fascinating story about the cat.
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Boo has a ton of fascinating stories
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Aaaaawwww, I too have a friend like that! I call her “my twin that was separated from me at birth”. Lovely post. And hilarious cat story! Haha, love cats!
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I love all animals too so inevitably we were going to be friends; just like you and your buddy!
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I love the sound of your friend Boo. I’m sure the sight of her on her bike, wearing a green face mask, would cheer anyone up. 🙂
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She is a real joy to work with
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I often think of you as my online “Boo,” Dallas, you are so compassionate and selfless (and a wickedly funny writer, do I need to keep bugging you to get an agent??) – Kaye
http://www.youtube.com/user/kittrellkaye
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Kaye what can I say – you’re ALWAYS so kind! I wish I knew how to get an agent, now that would impress the guys back in the supermarket!
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