Yesterday two people were murdered on a narrowboat only a day's cruise away from here. We didn't know these people, but we do know people who did, and the canal world is so small that it seems really close, and personal. It appears that three people had been drinking, a couple, and their friend who was staying with them. The boater stabbed both his partner and his friend, then called the ambulance service. He was taken into police custody. Not only is there the shock of this, but the realisation that it happened while the couple's young son was sleeping on the boat.
Then today my neighbour, M, called by to tell me that another neighbour from our close, J, had died suddenly of a stroke on Saturday. I'm shocked because I saw him striding out past the house on his twice daily walk with his dog only last Friday. OK, so he wasn't a young man, and he's had diabetes since before we moved here 17 years ago, and yes, he has recently been diagnosed with leukemia - although the doctors said he'd die with it not of it. But it's the suddeness, the fact that he seemed to be so vital only last week.
All very sad, my thoughts are very much with all people involved today. Hmmm....
8 years ago
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