Goodbye to you my amazing friend,

I’m so, so sorry I wasn’t with you in the end.

For all those times we laughed, kissed and hugged,

I can only be eternally grateful though they didn’t last as long as we hoped they would.

It goes without saying you brought joy to us all.

From walking across hot coals together for charity to the glitziest of balls.

A Charity Angel in all our lives and now a huge void we will try to disguise.

We walked some cobbled paths together, took in the autumn leaves, bracken and fields of heather.

We climbed up high to the Golcar Lilly pub and looked in awe at the surrounding hills and stunningly beautiful Colne Valley.

We stood in front of many thousands on that stage in St George’s Square, you with the mic in your hand whilst the crowd watched and stared.

There were the Monotones, Razorbach and Highway 62,

we saw Boo Sutcliffe, JB Goode and of course Storm too.

And when it mattered, we often shared secrets but never lied. We laughed like little children and yes, there were many times we cried.

Few you will have met will not cherish something special about you Mandy.

Your sense of right from wrong, the grace with which you went about your business and that reassuring look in the face of a lost cause but now you too are gone.

Yes. We were lucky. It is far better to have known but lost you, than to have never known you at all.

#BeMoreMandy

Mandy Taylor RIP

9th December 2021

On a houseboat in Chiswick Marina