 When I arrived kind of late 2013 to Sussex, this thing Sussex Neuroscience, Mike was incredibly encouraged and as well as making sure I put on the you know the eye-tracking device and so on and talking me through it. He told me a lot about the history of neuroscience here at Sussex and actually we interviewed him didn't we and we interviewed others about Ruth Saras over there and I interviewed a few people to kind of try and get some of this documented and I said around an email it's a typical might you know you send around an email to like an email list and nobody responds but this was an email just to ask if some people had some pictures to liven up the building room we're in CRPC and yeah Mike had loads of pictures so these things and you know he sent all these JPs and so these things went up I think around 2014 and they adorn the CRPC building where lots of the kind of experimental neuroscience research goes here and I suspect like the younger people they had no idea that these are all kind of Mike's pictures and some of yours Dan as well yes sorry so we'll be and he sent me lots of pictures but that's just one very small example of kind of how encouraging he was pardon where's Tom you got your job because of Mike we're gonna have this guy after you came get you honestly said input on on recruitments and all sorts of things it was a terribly enthusiastic supporter of Sussex neuroscience and keen that censoring neuroscience in general just visual neuroscience that does well at Sussex and actually he wrote a very nice little chapter for a book that there's a copy of out there called Making the Future which was published on the 50th anniversary of the university and Mike's got a chapter there about sensory the history of censoring neuroscience in Sussex quite a lot about you in there Paul I know and anyway so if there's some copies of that it's just a short chapter there's some copies out there if anybody wants to kind of grab a quick uh um potted history of sensory neuroscience here at Sussex anyway this is just some example oh and of course watching Mike play one of his medieval instruments by the priory dressed up as a medieval chap in a smoker I can't quite remember yes do you remember yes yeah that was yeah and your green tights yes there was tights involved anyway so anyway yeah so absolutely wonderful colleague and I'm so glad so many of you could come and share the kind of celebration of his word and his life and I hope those of you who didn't know him in person can just kind of take away some example of how fun a life in science can be and how satisfying it can be and a picture of cells doing it anyway that's all I want to say but if anybody else wants to say anything uh now's the time yeah Ron yeah I feel like that's what we do because I need Mike from perhaps a different perspective to most other people because I was an undergraduate here in the hallow days of the early 70s and a picture we could saw with long-haired louts in front of the library I was one of those I came to Sussex in 1973 and I got in through clearing so I wasn't clever enough to go anywhere else so thank you Sussex for taking me and I went into biology and there was all these old men that were teaching me of which Mike was one of them of course in retrospect he probably wasn't such an old man he's probably been in his early 30s I never thought about the teachers as well I mean Paul Benjamin and Tom Collet they're home here and the one thing that Mike was he was an absolutely wonderful undergraduate teacher he really really was and he was one who's because I worked in vision all my life and he was someone who really got me interested in I thought well this looks like fun because the world's fun has come up many times and he really did make vision fun so thanks Mike for starting me out on this career but it went beyond that because when I finished I had a choice um and that is I could either become a management trainee in a gasket factory in Slough because I had that job nailed on but I did quite well as a student so I thought well this actually might be fun I might actually do this and I asked Mike if he had any idea what I could do for a PhD and first of all he sent me to Wales to work with a friend of his on a plizia because I had this idea that I wanted to correlate biology to behavior neurobiology behavior how difficult could it be um so I went to um Wales to look at the tail mix but response of the plizia and we've got purple six like everything um and I'll show the video and this is the behavior of it going to the left and this is the behavior going to the left and this is the neuron you will record from and the whole world will assume it's all recorded from a different neuron so it's not really what I had in mind and he told me and he's drinking fun of a guy who was at Suffolk for a few months who'd recently gone out to Scotland and maybe I might like to do a PhD with him so I went out there and the first thing he said to me was hello Ron do you have to go to the club and I think this is really good so not only did Mike start my interest in vision but he also organized the rest of my career and then as I went up through the city several promotion channels Mike would appear and say nice things about him so I should thank you Mike and without you I'd never had a career