A Profile of our son John by his Mum & Dad
15th September 1975 - 23rd October 2005
About John
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John was a wonderful son, always so caring, loving and thoughtful, he was always smiling and never seemed to have a care in the world and would always be there for anyone when they needed help and advice.
John from an early age was very sensitive and loving; he always made us his parents very proud, the house was always filled with laughter and no matter what we would be doing John was always behind us, he had a passion for cooking from an early age and would often help his mum in the kitchen.
John did not enjoy his early days in Infant and Junior school as he was always being bullied but regardless of this he would always get up in the morning and get ready for school, he never ever told us that he was being bullied as he did not want us to worry, it only come to light that John was having problems at school when one of his teachers called us in and explained the situation to us.
When John was five and half years old, his younger brother Lawrence was born, when John heard the news that he had a baby brother, he cried and said that he did not want a baby brother he wanted a baby sister. John and Lawrence throughout their life together were like typical brothers
always fighting and arguing with one another and they were always being told off
because they could not pass without either hitting or thumping each other.
As Lawrence got older John would always wait till Lawrence went out and would go into Lawrence’s bedroom and take either Lawrence’s computer games or one of his favourite CD’s, on the other hand John would always make sure before he went out to lock his bedroom door to stop Lawrence doing the same to him so causing many an argument, but when we look back we understand that this was their way of showing that they loved each other really. When John left home they both seemed to get on a lot better and when we would all get together as a family they both still could not resist the odd thump.
always fighting and arguing with one another and they were always being told off
because they could not pass without either hitting or thumping each other.
As Lawrence got older John would always wait till Lawrence went out and would go into Lawrence’s bedroom and take either Lawrence’s computer games or one of his favourite CD’s, on the other hand John would always make sure before he went out to lock his bedroom door to stop Lawrence doing the same to him so causing many an argument, but when we look back we understand that this was their way of showing that they loved each other really. When John left home they both seemed to get on a lot better and when we would all get together as a family they both still could not resist the odd thump.
At an early age John was very keen on computers, at the age of five we bought him his first computer, a commodore 64, we also bought him a games book so that he could write data into the computer so that he could then play silly little basic games on it, when his father had some spare time in between working they would both spend hours and hours together, John typing and his father reading the data to John, I would always be listening out for when they where nearly coming to the end of the data, John’s father would say to John “are you ready” and John would always say “yes Dad”, then Peter would say “hit the button” and then I would hear them both groaning because the program would not work, they would both be laughing and giving out to each other because it meant that they would have to go over lines and lines of data rechecking what they had done. They where both so very, very happy when finally they would get these programs to work, once this was accomplished they would start another one and this would result in the same thing happening again, these times where the happiest hours that Peter spent with John and this love of computers stayed with them both throughout John’s life.
