It is quite extraordinary how the past and the present can collide unexpectedly. Recently, as my husband and I prepared to travel to a beach holiday for our thirty-fourth (!) wedding anniversary, I was contacted through my website by someone from the past. It wasn't my past but, that of my Italian parents, and a lovely lady that had modelled the Piergiovanni fashions, in the fifties and sixties. Not only was she a part of their lives for a number of years but, Jane Kelsall—as