My longest term friend.

I am blessed with quite a number of long term enduring friendships and definitely see that as a gift I don’t take for granted. Friends like Russell and Adrian etc have stood the test of time, and have been a blessing in my more challengibg times.

My longest term friendship is with Vicki. We have been friends since year 12 at high school and she remains to this day a very sophisticated and compassionate friend. We both came from very working class families and both had a sense of true class and honourable intentions, which we both learnt from our honest and hard-working parents. Vicki’s background is Greek, and she, is one the most classy and beautiful women I have ever met. From day one Vicki has worked in a very successful career in radio and now leads a very quiet and gentle life, as a radio journalist in Hobart. Not bad for a girl from Brunswick. She is very dynamic and talented and she has worked hard for everything she has achieved in her working life.

Vicki and I don’t need to live in one another’s pockets, but everytime we communicate, we just pick up where we left off and we are always there for one another in our more challenging times. It is a very easy friendship and I guess over the years, we have developed a sort of shorthand in our friendship, where we don’t have to spend hours explaining ourselves, we just get one another so well that the conversation just naturally continues and develops to grow. I know Vicki well enough over the years to know we always have one another’s back. She remains as classy and witty, funny and talented as the girl I first met back in high school many years ago and I cherish the fact that we have remained cherished friends over the years. She remains to this day, one of the people in my life, that means a lot to me, and I am glad to have been a passenger on her life’s journey and have seen her grow as a person, throughout her career in radio and she what an amazing person she has become throughput some pretty hard times. She is a blessing in my life and I’m so happy we have remained friends, along our journeys of life. True friends always have our combined best interests at heart. Long live long term friends, 🙏 they make the journey very special indeed.