We miss your gentle fun and friendship Matt. One year on and you are still in our hearts. We remember your big hugs and smile, your no nonsense common sense and practical help. You will remain our close friend forever
Matt: Fun, kind, strong, humble and incredibly supportive through good times and dark ones. Lots and lots of fun. Tight fitting, scruffy (some would say borderline legal) red / white striped trackie bottoms on a scrawny young bloke seemingly permanently attached to his bike. Early twenties, dancing with Donya/ singing like mad to Frankie Goes to Hollywood's Relax in front of a Frankie poster borrowed from a local bus stop. Any excuse to wear a silly hat. Insisting on going the national Leprechaun museum, trying out all the props and looking like a real life version of "Elf". Taking the mickey continually (eg "you look like a 70s porn star" in response to seeing a good friend's newly grown beard. Being an excited (in his late 50s) teenager while visiting Gavin & Stacey's corner of Barry Island and eventually embracing his closet Welshman self. Very forgiving and not once retaliating (though there were any opportunities) for receiving a picture postcard from Cornwall celebrating a newly arrived Wayne Rooney's winning goal for Everton against Arsenal. That famous Arsenal downstairs toilet/ shrine (needs to be seen to be believed). Guffawing so loudly that everyone went quiet and listened while he played the board game *Dirty Minds" in a (until then) respectable pub in Dorset. Having the best pirate costume at a 25th Anniversary Caleigh (with much competition from all the home Nations).
More than a friend and regularly still asked for advice, support and a hug because, although he's physically not here, he is confusingly ever present (and never more so than when in contact with his beloved family and granddaughter).
Love,
Bren & Louise
We miss your gentle fun and friendship Matt. One year on and you are still in our hearts. We remember your big hugs and smile, your no nonsense common sense and practical help. You will remain our close friend forever
Matt: Fun, kind, strong, humble and incredibly supportive through good times and dark ones. Lots and lots of fun. Tight fitting, scruffy (some would say borderline legal) red / white striped trackie bottoms on a scrawny young bloke seemingly permanently attached to his bike. Early twenties, dancing with Donya/ singing like mad to Frankie Goes to Hollywood's Relax in front of a Frankie poster borrowed from a local bus stop. Any excuse to wear a silly hat. Insisting on going the national Leprechaun museum, trying out all the props and looking like a real life version of "Elf". Taking the mickey continually (eg "you look like a 70s porn star" in response to seeing a good friend's newly grown beard. Being an excited (in his late 50s) teenager while visiting Gavin & Stacey's corner of Barry Island and eventually embracing his closet Welshman self. Very forgiving and not once retaliating (though there were any opportunities) for receiving a picture postcard from Cornwall celebrating a newly arrived Wayne Rooney's winning goal for Everton against Arsenal. That famous Arsenal downstairs toilet/ shrine (needs to be seen to be believed). Guffawing so loudly that everyone went quiet and listened while he played the board game *Dirty Minds" in a (until then) respectable pub in Dorset. Having the best pirate costume at a 25th Anniversary Caleigh (with much competition from all the home Nations).
More than a friend and regularly still asked for advice, support and a hug because, although he's physically not here, he is confusingly ever present (and never more so than when in contact with his beloved family and granddaughter).
Love,
Bren & Louise
