I feel many reading this will know of families that have been interwoven from their past through to their present so first a personal message: I have lost track of a family that was very much part of my past so, if the following account of first names sounds familiar, please get in touch. 

My first encounters and memories of this family stretch back to when I was about five years old and in my grandmother’s kitchen with Chrissie and her very beautiful daughter (whose name I have forgotten).