After surviving cancer, I spend every weekend chatting to a wonderful friend from school who now has incurable cancer & tells me I am the only person who understands when she has good or bad days. We have been doing theses chats for at least 6 years now & I know she is happy to have my support!
She worried when my power line was down recently, as I need to eat regularly … but it is fine now! Today she sent me a parcel from the Dorset Meat company which included…Duck, pork chops, sausages, minced beef, bacon, & lambs liver. 
She is having Chemo today, so I can’t contact her to say “Thank you” but I will when she is able to chat.
We have been friends since we were 11 & have kept in touch through the years, but the best thing we have ever given each other is the care of a good friend ! 
Oh Twink…this is a beautiful friendship story! The present is lovely, of course, but
This is really touching! 
Thanks Pixie. My greatest wish is that she will be around for many more years so we can keep each other smiling! 
What a lovely friend to have, and what a lovely friend you are. To have a true friend is the greatest treasure.
That’s a true friend that you are lucky to have. Not many of us are that lucky 
I hope that if the time comes, we can all find friendships like the one you describe @Twink55
No better or deeper friendship than that Twink and long may it be so.
What about a swift SMS text message to thank her?
I was going to say the same Chillie, you beat me to it .
You need to be quicker next time 
(just joking. Great minds think a like)
My late friend still is with me…She was like an angel. If you were off colour she was the one that would be always there for you…not just her friends anybody she just knew…People like that don’t appear that often…
Your two peas in a pod really Twinks
True friends are rare to come by, you two are the genuine ones, Twink….
Thanks for all your lovely posts!
Babs & I have always been there for each other through good times & bad times but her eldest son died last year & that was tearful for both of us.
On a lighter note, when we were at school we were frozen waiting for the bus, so we thought we would go to my house and tell my mum the bus hadn’t arrived. At that point a car pulled up driven by our headmistress, who said " Jump in girls, you look cold so I can can take you to school" 
It wasn’t easy to skip school when the headmistress lived about a mile from our bus stop!