30 years' ago today, I arrived back from Japan.
I'd just got back home to Caerphilly when the Enniskillen bomb exploded.
It seemed oddly inappropriate that I was so pleased to be home while people were reeling.
In those days, the Japanese electronic giants had seemed indomitable. Just as Philips, Plessey, STC and GEC had.
But challenges came.
A few days later, my youngest was born. In the Miners Hospital.
All around the pits were closing.
Japan had seemed so far ahead that no country could ever match it.
Challenges came.