A year in photos - Lost

You know the proverb about making hasty while the sun shines? Well we all prove it true at some time.
My opportunity came last month.
Nearly a years worth of pictures stored on our home laptop (you're guessing what happened already...)
There is no reason these pictures should not be backed up; we have a NAS shown as a drive on the laptop.
Thought about just dragging and dropping the pictures so often. Did I do it? "No!"

So the day comes, son accidentally drops the laptop.

There in that moment, the hard drive becomes as useful as a paperweight and the curtain closes on photo memories of 2011, apart from what has been shared on the social networking sites.

A lesson to reaquaint myself with need to backup files, especially when I have made it so easy already.

Here today, gone tomorrow

Every so often a day comes along to remind you personally of the fragility of life. Not the numerous newspaper reports of people "living by the sword, dying by the sword" but just someone taken away without warning.

A friend's dad died yesterday, Thursday.  He was fine at the weekend.  On Tuesday he was admitted to hospital not feeling well and by Wednesday the family had news that he had a form of leukaemia. He went into a coma on Thursday and passed away the same day.
Apparently his blood was "poisoned" and his organs then shut down.
This "all out of the blue"

That is the fragility of life.  Enjoy every day you have.