I normally like to write about fun stuff and things to make folks laugh but today I can’t, today I must honour my friend Joanne Harvey and tell you about her. Jo was my local lady who worked at the Dry Cleaners and I wondered why she seemed a bit sad and maybe a tiny bit grumpy? So I set out to make friends with her. And lucky for me she liked me. She wasn’t sad or miserable at all although some might say she may have had reason to be.
This amazing lady lost the love of her life in a truck accident when she was 35 years old and bought her three kids up on her own. She moved to the Gold Coast and then had a bout with Breast Cancer, she won the first round. Her adorable Grandson was born and was the ‘Light of her life’, another reason why Grandma’s should not be given IPhones. Many a day I have watched videos and photos of her darling ‘Teddy’, I didn’t mind it made her happy.
She loved Country and Western, I hated it but even that didn’t stop us being friends. We went to Broadbeach one Sunday to watch her friend of 30 years play in his band. He had written a song for her late husband which he played for her and we all cried. We drank far too much, found some pasta joint on the way home and ate far too much! and then thought it was a good idea to hire a poor young man on a bicycle with a cart behind to take us home! Boy did he earn his money that night! Sorry about throwing up in your garden Jo!!
Thanks for being my friend, thanks for showing me what real toughness is really like and RIP with your beloved husband.
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