I have a lot to be grateful to Michael Lafferty for, through an invitation from Adrienne Gleeson to become Lafferty Publications’ correspondent in Canada in 1985. I met Michael in London and I remember I found him very amusing. He had a vision, guts and built a great business in a highly specialist area. I wrote for Retail Banking International and the company’s accounting publication (Accounting International?) from 1985 to 1987, which led to a job in the Royal Bank of Canada. I receive a pension today from RBC, hence my enduring gratitude to Michael Lafferty and Retail Banking International. Back then, I found it funny that someone who is mostly right-brain found herself writing about banks, banking and bean counters. It was sound experience that improved my writing a lot. I think back to the technology in those days and see that, to make the publications work in an international context, all staff had somehow to transcend the severe limitations of the infant technology of the time. I laugh when I think of having to send my articles to London from Montreal somehow via a telex link through my computer, having written the articles using a tiny wee screen (I think 4” square) and keyboard on a 64K memory Osborne portable computer (which was like carrying an elephant). I had to do this in a tiny wee space in a corner of my tiny wee apartment in Montreal! It was complicated, but to me it’s so much more complicated now, I wouldn’t mind in some ways to be able to return to the old typewriters I learned typing on. I still miss Adrienne Gleeson very much. Fare thee well, Michael! My thoughts and prayers to his family and staff.