Connell made me feel happy to see how things have changed for the better.

As some of you may know if you have been following my blog, I have recently been photographing and writing about Bangour Hospital and the connection it had with me.  So having just come back from having taken photographs there, I bumped into Connell, someone who I had never met before who was being taken out for a stroll by his Mum with his dog.  We literally crossed paths as I was going to the beach with Anders and Dexter to give Marvin and Carly a good run and couldn't help but smile when I passed them so much so that I ran back and asked if I could take their photograph!

I had never noticed them before on our visits to this beach which has a long promenade and I was really grateful to his Mother for letting me photograph them as it was such a wonderful contrast to my memories of my brother and my experiences of how life used to be not so very long ago for people who had mental and physical challenges.