Dreams of a Life Page #3

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'She was determined

she was going to have a go at this thing,

'whether she had

a 400 dress on or not.

And she tried to grab the sides.

And as she did that,

a kind of cleavage of b*obs

popped out of her dress

and she was trying to hold on

to the side of this thing.

'She stood there for five or ten minutes

just laughing her head off.

'If I was wearing a dress like that,

I wouldn't go on one of them bungees.'

Everything revolved round

whoever she went out with

or whatever job she did.

'No lifetime friends

as far as I could see.'

'The thing that always stuck

in my mind was this bond

that her and Martin used to have.

He seemed to be her rock.

Whatever happened in her life,

'she always seemed

to come back to him.

'But I wonder what she did

when she wasn't seeing Martin.

'I know they didn't live together.'

Maybe Martin was her closest friend

and anyone Martin knew automatically

became her circle of friends.

'It was Martin who said,

"Oh, it's Joyce's 21st."

'And I said, "Oh, right. Great!"

'I actually remember

her 21st party

'in the place we can never remember

above The Beetroot.'

'I think it was called Moonlighting

in Dean Street.'

'It was a good evening.

'It was just that incident

of the police stripogram.'

'This guy turns up

and he was dressed as a vicar.

'Everyone was quite sober, really sober.

I think it was relatively early.

It didn't seem like it was a late night.

And everyone was just,

"Oh, my God. What is this guy doing?"

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'It was just completely wrong

for him to be there.'

If you were drunk,

I'd imagine it would be hilarious,

but it just wasn't.

Anyway, he started ripping off...

He had Velcro on the back of his shirt

and he ripped off his top.

He had this really skinny, white body

with ginger hair. It was just awful.

Not that if he was a good-looking bloke,

it would have made any difference.

It was just like, "No, please stop.

Keep your clothes on. Don't do this."'

'Everybody was just

really embarrassed.'

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Then he had a bit of a fit

because someone threw

some clotted cream at him or something

and it hit him in the chest.

'And we were all like school kids

with this naked vicar telling us off.

'But it was just excruciatingly

embarrassing, really bad,

'I think Joyce was just horrified.'

Who threw that one?

That almost caught me in the eye!

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'I don't know to this day

who organised it.'

Whether it was Martin.

He might have done, but it seems odd.

It doesn't seem

like the sort of thing he'd do.

Joyce told me a sister or sisters

had colluded to organise it.

'I don't remember

if her family was there.

I just seem to remember

it being the friends

she'd acquired through Martin, I think.

'I did say to Martin,

"That's odd, isn't it?

"'There's all your mates here

and it's Joyce's 21st."

'Maybe she had a real 21st

some other time

'and these were just like Martin's mates

just to keep them quiet.'

And maybe she had her real 21st

in another guise somewhere.

'Maybe she didn't want different groups

of friends to mix. I don't know.'

Loads of people asked me,

'Where's her family?

'Where are her sisters and her friends?

"It's all your friends."

And I said, "I don't know, really."

I just never met any of them

or her family.

'I thought it was extremely unusual.'

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'Her mother was

from an Indian extraction,

'although she came

from the West Indies.

'I think her mother came

from quite a good background.

'She did mention something

about tea plantations.

She talked about her parents,

the fact that her mother was from India

and her father was from Grenada.

'I think her mother died

when Joyce was 11.

'I think her mother was about 41.

'Clearly, she was an influence on Joyce.

'A positive influence.'

'She had older sisters

'and her sisters took parental control

of her and brought her up.'

'Sometimes the youngest one

gets a bit more love lavished on them.

'Not deliberately.

It just happens, doesn't it?'

I always thought

she was well brought up

in a Caribbean style

of well brought up.

What we call brought upsy.

She had brought upsy, we call it.

She had that.

'She knew how to behave,

knew how to eat at the table.

"'Don't drain your cup and clean up

your plate like you've been starved."

'She had all the right things.'

'She talked about her dad

being a West Indian, working-class guy.'

'Her father was a carpenter.

I don't consider that working-class.

'That's a trade, you know.'

She used to refer to him as Pork Pie.

'She said he was

a typical West Indian man.

'He wore the pork pie hat and

he used to walk with a bit of a swagger.

'He used to go out with his suits on

'and chat up young girls

'and just basically think

he was still in his 20s and 30s.'

And she just kind of thought...

that as her father,

he should be a bit more grown-up.

I remember him always being in a suit,

a business type man.

Whether he worked away or something,

I don't know.

'She wasn't proud of her dad.

'I always thought

it was the working-class background

'she didn't want to own up to

or have any connection with.'

Families fall out.

They don't get on.

- I suppose so.

I never saw my brother for six years.

I mean, I think you get that in families.

Somebody must have said,

"Hey, we haven't heard from her

"for two months,

"six months,

"a year,

"Christmas.

'We're having Christmas dinner.

Where's Joyce?"

The real standout information,

the poignant side of this

was that when they found her body,

she was surrounded

by Christmas presents.

If she was wrapping Christmas presents,

how come no one knew?

'If I departed in my at

and that was it,

'apart from my family,

the landlord would be around.

'Someone would come looking.'

'And the neighbour.'

There were funny smells

coming into his house.

Why the hell didn't he inform the council?

'Why didn't they think,

"It's coming from next-door.

"'Let's kick the door in"'?'

'Somebody had tried

to knock on the door a couple of times.

'I think maybe the noise of the telly

had started to be noted.

'But they just thought

that she wasn't answering the door.'

'That's the depressing thing.

'You've got Saturday night TV,

Big Brother,

'all these people speaking at this corpse

and Ally Pally looking down over her at.

'It was very easy to lose touch

because she would just move.

'There can't be a point on the compass

in London where she hasn't lived.'

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