Today we went to LCK's funeral service, Sue and I.

A great number of ex-ATA people were there. The ceremony was for his family. I never thought him religious. Much of what was said was not of my perception of him.

Lindsay was portrayed as an 'Inventor'. I never saw this. But, one must define the word -- an 'Inventor' derives an original idea. Ideas are rarely original. They derive from that which 'is', an 'improvement', perhaps.

For me, Lindsay was an inventor's conduit. He 'saw', and had the tenacious capability of pursuit of the value of 'seeing' to bring ideas to fruition. His desires were his! Yet, he gave a lot to a large number of people.

Very few people have this attribute.

I can recall one, of many instances:

• I was deep in the throws of grounding a techo problem and Lindsay called me into his office. He outlined the problem. I mentally whinged and advised, "The T-Bar can detect ultrasonics. Let an ultrasonic 'pencil' outline the target and the T-Bar detect this emission, ergo trace out the target shape." It 'came' from within me -- an 'invention'? I left to continue with my problem. Some time later he asked me if I wanted my name on the 'Ultrasonic Pencil' Patent.

This mattered to him, but not to me. But then, it was done for wages, and because it was done for, him.

Lindsay Knight.

I did not want to 'let him down', and, he not me, this is my perception.

Some many years have passed since Lindsay was evicted from Fallon Street. I still think of the current company as 'ATA', I know not why.

I worked for Lindsay Knight and admit some sort of vanity in this.

Perhaps my vanity was in being allowed to perform, in producing a lot of techo stuff, that worked, for LCK's ATA.

Sue reminds me my time with him was for only 9 years in retrospect, yet the 'feeling' hangs on.

The 'fun', retrospectively, I had in that short time. The places he sent me;

• Otterburn in UK; AbuDhabi, twice. And I was scared of flying when missiles were only thrown at school.
• At times I disliked him, his 'dynamism' which I did not perceptively have.
• I called him 'Davros'. "You are my engineers, you will do my bidding."

I perceive that he saw 'Technical excellence' in people!

But he did not exterminate! He was exterminated, yet, carried on in 'his' way, as that which he 'developed' now carries on!!

I was a piece of his jigsaw puzzle that made up his 'Big Picture', the one we were always told we couldn't understand.

Perhaps I did, and, now would smile, retrospectively perceived and impishly.

I am very happy that we met.

LCK once called me, "Mr. 'Fixit', who's always 'right'." And smiled, impishly.

The recalled memories of LCK from my little, re-construct "I", will always live, most dearly, within my heart.