Dez Holmes
12-01 2022 00:34
wrote:
Alright mate? I’ve been putting this off; worried I can’t do you justice and worried my grammar won’t be up to scratch. But I know you’d say what you always said when I was dithering and doubting - you’d tell me to stop being bloody daft and get on with it.
I first met you ‘getting some fresh air’ outside the Midland. I watched you swagger towards the Important Government Person and their entourage as though you were about to offer your autograph, and I knew immediately I wanted to be in your crew. I was a few weeks into a new job that I was terrified I wasn’t posh enough to do. I don’t know how long we were sat there, maybe less than 20 mins - but I walked away from that conversation feeling 3 foot taller. You lifted people up like that; anyone who needed it. For a skinny lass you weren’t half strong.
Your impact and influence is boundless, so many of us owe you so much.
There’s few people as clever as you, even fewer (if any) who are as much fun to boot. Wit as dry as a fine Sauvignon, a literary genius with the vocabulary of a sailor. And a heart so impossibly big you somehow managed to make all of us feel special. A text from you could have me howling with laughter on the bleakest of days, and you were always the gallery I played to.
Although you never managed to teach me what a split infinitive is (and I will never care, sorry) I learned so much from you. And I laughed so hard with you.
I miss you, you magnificent queen. xx
Dez Holmes
12-01 2022 00:34
wrote:
Alright mate? I’ve been putting this off; worried I can’t do you justice and worried my grammar won’t be up to scratch. But I know you’d say what you always said when I was dithering and doubting - you’d tell me to stop being bloody daft and get on with it.
I first met you ‘getting some fresh air’ outside the Midland. I watched you swagger towards the Important Government Person and their entourage as though you were about to offer your autograph, and I knew immediately I wanted to be in your crew. I was a few weeks into a new job that I was terrified I wasn’t posh enough to do. I don’t know how long we were sat there, maybe less than 20 mins - but I walked away from that conversation feeling 3 foot taller. You lifted people up like that; anyone who needed it. For a skinny lass you weren’t half strong.
Your impact and influence is boundless, so many of us owe you so much.
There’s few people as clever as you, even fewer (if any) who are as much fun to boot. Wit as dry as a fine Sauvignon, a literary genius with the vocabulary of a sailor. And a heart so impossibly big you somehow managed to make all of us feel special. A text from you could have me howling with laughter on the bleakest of days, and you were always the gallery I played to.
Although you never managed to teach me what a split infinitive is (and I will never care, sorry) I learned so much from you. And I laughed so hard with you.
I miss you, you magnificent queen. xx