DannyBoy

Japanese readers check out the last 4-lettered surname in this patent specification in order to learn the name of the legend we shall discuss this day... One reason for showing off my Japanese specification for the world's lightest commercial fibrous casing is that it is closest in content to my, or our, original application that was filed in 1989. Unlike a later filing in the European Patent Office, maybe filed 1/2 dozen years later, when the other patentees sited on our original application were no longer employed by the company and when their successors were disinterested simply because they weren't invested in the momentos developments that had been necessary to turn the company's fortunes around, eg when at the start of 1990 I was given the US monthly Casing Claims to process they were runing at the rate of US $200 000 pa, and 10 years later during which I had processed them pretty much single handedly, and seen them reduced to US $ 5000, the job was taken awa...

It's not every day we think of starting over but without laying it on the line that's what the title of my present blog is all about... Like this morning 25 9 2 I decided to walk round our garden the one outside my study window sitting at my desk here, the desk I somehow inherited from my wife's eldest uncle, John, who didn't return from WW II: falling as he did in the closing days of Finland's War of Continuation, which meant her father, the youngest son of her grandparents' family of 6, would now inherit the family farm then in its second generation, since her grandmother Hilder decided to buy it, when her husband, her grandfather Willi would accede to being its first Gentleman Farmer of the new owners. Little me, of all people! But having lived in our house here these past 37 years since 1989 5 12, to begin with, as people who rented the plot of land it sits on for a token sum of maybe €200 a year from the town, increasing the rent 20 fold to something of ...