My friend Kylie

I’ve got a friend Kylie who is very generous. She loves family and she trickles through the world with a decidedly cheeky grin.


I say a cheeky grin and that’s sometimes easy to say about people, they have a cheeky grin, everyone has a cheeky grin from time to time. With Kylie though, she’s managed to arrange her life, and her face into a pattern of consistent gleeful cheekiness.


I say she loves family because of her clear joy in the young people in her family. She’s surrounded by nephews to teach her tricks to. She was very quick to visit both of our children on their arrival. Whenever I’ve witnessed Kylie in the company of family she seems to revel in all members, great and small.


I say generous as with our first child she immediately offered to take him for a night so that we could go out and relax. I’m pretty sure she even wrote it down like a store voucher. A generous offer and grateful received. It’s been 5 years since that generous gift, and I’m sure, on day, there’ll be a night when she isn’t too busy for us to take her up on it. Cheeky.


Happy birthday Kylie you generous, loving and cheeky character.