Jon was always a fantastic crowd pleaser. He was great at directing people and liked nothing more than thinking he was helping a large event run smoothly by helping out. So when it came for the 13 October 2013, the day of my wedding Jon was right there to lend a hand...
Jon and I shared a bedroom growing up, we had single beds and Paddington Bear curtains with alphabet border wallpaper. The walls were adorned by pictures of wildlife and we had a small cupboard in the corner where the monsters lived. Later the monsters would...
Jon was a fan of holidays, as many of us were. As children we spent our first holidays, as many of us did, in the UK. I recall caravanning on the Northumberland Coast near the fishing town of Seahouses and travelling to steam rallies in our caravan to display our...
It was a mild spring day and I was attending an afternoon playschool. I was 3 years old and, although big for my age, to be honest I was a bit of a wimp. Jon would’ve been 4 by then and just getting ready to start school. It was in a church hall in Beighton, the...
This blog is written not as a healthcare practitioner. This blog is to highlight the other side of what motivates me to seek a more equitable landscape for people with disabilities – my older brother Jonathan. As the middle of three sons, Jonathan the eldest,...