To my mate. ive known you all my life and still cant believe you have gone.
we have many memories, especially in our early years. the main one being THE MAGICAL CLOWN ACT, it all started with a performance for our local Docking cub scout gang show in the ripper hall. You were the clever clown and got all the tricks right, and i was the daft clown that got them all wrong. From there our acting careers took off, we hired a couple of agents (the mums), and performed all over west Norfolk, soon our 1st booking at an old peoples home in Kings Lynn in front of a packed but very static crowd of 30 O.A.Ps .
we carried out a few more shows, then the call came, the pinnacle of our career to perform for the annual Norfolk cub scout gang show at the Theatre Royal Norwich, this was it i still think if BGT was around then that would have been our next step to the big time, the next Cannon and Ball (for the younger generation Ant and Dec)
however ... bookings dried up somewhat, we sacked our agents (the mums).... to be fair mate it was mainly down to the costumes getting a little tight and not really that cool as we were starting high school.
anyway as our lives progressed through high school, college and our careers we saw each other less. We both found love, married and both had 2 beautiful children, of which your Josie and my Charlotte are now at Springwood High School, friends and in the same year group just as we were.
although we saw less of each other, we both know we both have had some challenging times of recent, but always dropped a txt or a quick call to show support, the mark of true friends. will miss you, all my love Rick X
Ricky
16th June 2020