Petra had always been very sociable. When we were in Prague, we were always visiting one set of friends or another. Misa and Tomasek, Marcela and Marco, Helena and Libor, Pavlina, Helena, Lada and, of course, Chris. Petra was very good at having fun with people and they warmed to her humour and sense of enjoyment. She always talked about 'enjoying' people and she did. When we moved to England in 1997, Petra found it hard as she did not know anybody. She soon made very good friends with Julie whom she worked with. Eventually, Julie would be the non-godparent of Misa - I don't quite know what atheists have. Through Julie, Petra met Tania, who coincidentally, I had known when I was at university. We were soon good friends with their partners Andy and Gary. As Petra moved to the school of Healthcare, she became friends with her workmates mainly Sarah and Zoe but also Debbie, Wendy, Vanessa, Jenny and Jane. It was really with the birth of our children, that Petra's social life started to take on the size of a small industrial undertaking. It was with through the ante natal classes that she met Liz and Jo and eventually Dawn, Kerry, Jacqui, Elisa and Maria. Through nursery, Petra met Angela and Christina, through playgroup she met Fiona and Kim Chi and through school, Tania and John and Helen and Sheridan. Petra also managed to find a special group of friends. Like her, they were ex-pat Czechs. She met Zuzana because her husband Jaz had attended Petra's Leeds Met lessons. They were very similar in many ways and hit it off immediately. Through Zuzana, she met Dita with whom she had a lot of fun. It was a chance meeting in the library at Horsforth that she met Sarka with her two sons, Max and Alan. Petra heard someone speaking Czech and introduced herself. And that was that. Liz held a very special place in Petra's heart. They shared a instinct for kindness and an ability to give the right thing to the right people at the right time. Their shopping trips for the Next sale took some serious planning and developed muscles through carrying the stuff. I was not always sure how often they communicated but I would often answer the phone to hear 'Hi it's Liz'. I then knew that Petra would be unavailable for at least the next hour. This was the same for Dawn, her 'sister' and a whole host of others. Once Petra got a mobile phone and got into the whole texting thing, I knew that socialising would go into overdrive. It did and it made her very happy.