Aida Austin: Family life feels forever fixed in time
Four year-old Lola seems exactly the same; she still goes about all her important daily business- feeding the hens and amassing beech nuts in her dumper truck- while swishing her wispy Linda McCartney mullet like Princess Elsa from ‘Frozen.’
And she still treats their black labrador Nelson with the same kind of loving disregard you’d show your favourite armchair; flopping down on him to watch Mrs Doubtfire, rearranging his limbs expertly so as to maximise her own comfort, and then giving him a couple of strong-armed little shoves to expedite the matter.
