Monday, December 25, 2006

Farewell Ricky

Sorry about the gap in my blogging. Someone very close to us died recently of cancer at the ridiculously young age of 49 and it has left us all in a state of shock.

Ricky Knott was a remarkable man for what should be unremarkable qualities but aren’t. He was the sort of person interested in others first and himself a long second. Someone who asked after your health, even when he was the one dying. A person with a ready smile for all he met. Someone always fascinated by life and always positive in his approach to it. He was the sort who walks in to a room and says ‘There you are’ rather than ‘Here I am’. As I say, qualities that should be commonplace but are so rare that he was the most popular person I knew, and every one of the 30 odd people who have so far left memories on his memorial website http://richardknott.info has commented on them. He wasn't a marketing man but we can all learn a lot from him.

Ricky leaves a widow and three lovely daughters who are a tribute to him. The gap in the lives of those who knew him cannot be filled.

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