I felt somewhat privileged when Ron gave me a copy of his newly completed book but I have to admit that I put it to one side to read at a later date. I truly never intended it to be quite such a long time before I got around to reading it.

Having 're-found' it recently, tucked away in a dark corner of the spare room, I decided to sit down and read it. It will never make the 'best seller' list but it does give a unique insight into one mans life, his family, his wife and his job... but not necessarily in that order. I know how much time Ron spent in the research, the preparation and the actual typing of this document and I sort of thought it would be nice if it was available to a wider audience. To that end, I've uploaded it to my web domain. I mean no offence or disrespect to any of Ron's family and should anyone object, I will, of course, remove it immediately.

It was 'loose leaf', so easily scanned and the clear Courier typeface of Ron's golfball electric typewriter meant that the scanned imaged could be processed by my 'Presto!' OCR engine and turned into an editable document.

Optical character recognition is good but not perfect so there may be some errors in 'translation'. I've corrected those I've found but the formatting, grammar and content are exactly as Ron typed. All I've added are the necessary HTML 'tags' and this footnote.

Should any of Ron's family want to host it on their own website; I'll gladly make the source code available to them. It's not huge... a little over half a megabyte in total.

John Ward - January 2011
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