Last year I discovered that I had a brother who was born in Birmingham in 1946, I was born in London in 1960 in a hospital that overlooked the Grand Union canal, never knowing that at the other end of the canal was my brother. I have had three heart attacks and open heart surgery and it is thanks to the pioneering research by the British Heart Foundation that I am here, so to tie all of this together Ruby and I thought we would walk from my birthplace in London, to my brother