Alice

- she'll kill me for calling her that - she's been Ali since we left school. But between the ages of 4 and 18 I called her Alice.

I still slip up every now and then which is received with the darkest look you could ever receive without dropping down dead.

She posted on faecbook today that her hair was now "really dark brown" I figured I'd meet up with her for a quick cuppa and see quite how extreme she'd taken it. This is still lighter than I remember her natural hair colour when she was little. (here she is at an early birthday party of mine, and here she is at my aunties house in the 'dam.)

As you can see by the cards on her mantlepiece, Ali has just got engaged and I couldn't be happier for her. I love her like family.