trennels | 2 questions - nannie, and mrs marlow's hairdressing skills (Reply)

1. After Nicola's very short haircut with fringe, that apparently looks dreadful, Lawrie tries to cut hers to match, and doesn't do a very good job. Mrs Marlow, I think, then tries to fix it. (Or does she take Lawrie back to the same hairdresser as Nicola went to eventually?) It's surprising that if they all hated Nicola's so much, that she'd let Lawrie get one just as bad - and yet just a week later they look still so identical that they are mistaken for each other at the elocution comp and the gymkhana. Also surprising that her hairdressing skills are good enough to make them look identical again, specially if she was going cut Lawrie 'round a pudding basin'!

2. Who was nannie? Lawrie mentions her, and things she'd said before she went off to look after her sister. Was it Mr Marlow's mother, or did they have some kind of nanny to help when all the children were small? (which would not have been surprising with 8 children!).