The long shadows

Today I heard that an ex-colleague had died of cancer.

She was 32, and her illness was diagnosed after the birth of her second child, just last June.

On my way home I took a longer way round, just to make the most of the unseasonal warmth and sunshine. I thought of her, and the people she'd left behind, and looking at the long shadows, the beautiful colours, an (almost) perfect day, I was choked.

R.I.P. Diana.