I knew Vera when she was in the UK - met her in London when I started busking in the west end in 1966 - she used to hang around with the crowd in the Porcupine, Don Partridge, Alan Young, Pat Keene, Megan Aikman, Paris Nat Schaffer and all the others. She was older than most of us but had a great spirit and was great fun to be with. I spent a lot of time talking with her and she was very stimulating company.   I read her memoirs sometime back, when I was doing some research for a project and subsequently found out that she had died - a sad loss but a full life, it seems...