'They didn't always say anything, but I could tell it was what they were thinking.'
'People didn't believe Daniel was mine,' he says. For Errol the response of strangers was harder to deal with. 'We'd go on holiday and people would say, 'Is that one a friend you brought along?'' says Alyson. 'At least life was made a bit easier by the fact that we always had two of everything.'īut it was clear that having one black and one white twin was going to mark the family out, wherever they went. 'Apart from her, it's twin city,' says Alyson. The only singleton in the house is the couple's youngest child, and only daughter, 14-year-old Katie. Errol's first set are fraternal boys, Shane and Luke, who are 21 Alyson's are identical boys, Charles and Jordan, 20. Daniel and James were the family's third set of twins: Errol and Alyson each already had a set with a previous partner. It wasn't the first time nature had shocked Alyson and Errol. It was another two hours before Daniel was born: and what a surprise he was! He was so white and wrinkly, with this curly blond hair.' 'When James was born he was the spitting image of Errol, and I remember seeing his curly hair and thinking – he's just like his dad. The boys' colour was the most obvious, and extraordinary, difference.
