17-05-2025
Meet the next-door sisters: ‘We're like neighbours on steroids'
Milo, the youngest and only boy of the four cousins, comes running down the garden to his aunt and uncle's home, past the runner ducks, silkie chickens, guinea pigs, cats, dogs and koi carp — it's like a modern-day Doctor Dolittle set-up with a splash of The Waltons. For any child it's idyllic because not only are there animals galore (23, in fact) but there is double everything, from parents to children to pets.
The sisters Katie Thompson and Sophie Parish decided that bringing up the four children they have between them — Tabitha, nine, Aurora, seven, Poppy, six, and Milo, three — would be more fun if they did it together, so they bought houses next door to one another and now raise
