A reminder...

This week has been one of extremes so far. After rain and cold on Tuesday, yesterday was so glorious and we spent the day at the beach hut, children swimming in the sea, picnic-ing, hot, summer sun. Just so happy and contented. Then later yesterday, I learned that a colleague of mine had died of a heart attack in the morning. I knew him well; we had worked together for years but you know when something so unexpected happens that you can't compute it? And when you have one of those peripheral relationships at work that you so take for granted? I had thought at the start of the week that I must chat with him today as there was something I wanted to mull over with him and now...well...

Of course I am immensely saddened for his family's loss. It's one of those things that creeps up and makes me realise I must never take life for granted, not even for one day.