My grandmother was taught to act like a lady at all times. She, in turn, did her best to influence my mother in the same way. This was ultimately a failure as Mum famously climbed out of the window during most of her elocution and etiquette lessons. It dawned on me while walking down a main public street, eating a family-sized pizza accidentally ordered due to a language mix-up, that this might explain why people say I sometimes stray from elegance. This was only the first ni