A portrait of a mother in her st year has been gathering heather in handfuls and holds up her young child who grins towards his father who is taking the picture at a park near the Essex seaside town of Southend It is the summer of and the mums dress is styled from the previous decade blue with white spots and pearl necklace She too is smiling as she grasps the flowers and her child on a warm day Oddly the boy looks as though he is wearing a girls dress which may have been a handmedown from an older sibling or just the trend then
