As Barbra Streisand once sang, “People Who Need People are the luckiest people in the World”, but I prefer to substitute the word ‘friends’ for ‘people’. Without friends, a life means very little. In my travels, I have cultivated friendships all over the world with all sorts of different, interesting people – not just the ones you see on these pages. Friendships seem to me to be like vineyards; needing care, nourishment, and a little bit of luck to flourish... here are just a few of my ‘tribe’. I am so grateful for their life-enhancing talent, generosity and affection. Without ‘a little help from my friends’, none of this would have been possible. After all, we’re only passing through...