04/07/2025
28 years ago today, Dr Jonathan graduated from The Maidstone College of Osteopathy, UK
To celebrate, here are 28 things you didn't know about Jon
- Jon was studying Chemistry at Uni & injured his knee skiing down Mt Blanc and was treated by an osteopath after being told he needed exploratory surgery to discover the injury. One treatment fixed his knee problem and inspired the move to become an osteopath 🩼
- He has treated patients in England, Ireland, Wales, USA, New Zealand and Australia 🌎
- Jon has treated one of the James Bonds (There’s a clue in the clinic as to which one!) 🎥
- He is a qualified scuba diver, and would you believe he met his dive instructor, who taught him in Egypt, 20 years later, purely by chance on his treatment table in Gisborne!
- Jon has spent more than half his career as an osteopath in Gisborne
- He has treated a Wimbledon Champion 🎾
- Jon graduated at the castle which used to be the home of Henry VIII’s first wife
- He plays piano, and has been learning for over 12 years
- Jon is obsessed with Pink Floyd, and has seen over fifty concerts in 9 different countries. 🎤
- In 2003, Jon nearly ran away with the circus…. He declined an offer to work as an osteopath for Cirque Du Soleil.🎪
- Jon’s Welsh Auntie, Gladys, taught Tom Jones to read
- As well as using lasers for therapeutic purposes at work, Jon also has a full laser light show rig that he has used for various gigs, and to make his Christmas Tree look next level
- Jon has witnessed both the Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis in the same year
- While flying from South Africa to England, Jon ended up sitting next to Annie Lennox ✈️
- Before leaving Europe to live in Australia, Jon explored emigrating to Canada and New Zealand.
- Jon is a bit of an aviation nerd, and loves all things that fly, he has flown UNDER the Golden Gate Bridge in the US 🌉
- While living in Ireland, Jon did a weekend trip to New Zealand, for a job interview. Flying a total of 24000 miles ✈️
- Jon visited Area 51 in Nevada in 2001, and didn’t get abducted by aliens!
- In 2024, Jon had a Big Mac in the world’s most northerly Maccas, in Norway, and intends to have the same in the world’s most southerly Maccas in Invercargill, NZ 🍔
- Jon’s late father was at uni with Brian May from Queen
- Boxer dogs have been a major part of Jon’s life for most of his adult life. When he migrated to Australia, he brought his Irish Boxer ‘Jemmy’ on the same flight as him. 🐶
- If Jon hadn’t become an osteopath, he would either have been a winemaker or a pilot
- Jon was among only 800 people who attended Prince’s last ever concert in Australia 🎸
- Jon has a small bag of brick dust, which came from a wall removed from the cavern club in Liverpool
- The only continents Jon hasn’t travelled to are South America and Antarctica 🥶
- Since arriving in Australia in 2008, Jon has had TEN different addresses, eight of them in the Macedon Ranges 🏠
- During his time as a student, Jon was one of the first people to have an email address, there was no AI, and not even Google! 💻
- Both Jon’s great-grandfather and grandfather on his mother’s side survived shipwrecks in the 1st and 2nd World Wars, respectively
