THE HAPPIEST HOME
ANNETTE AND DR ROD MAILER’S sprawling, century-old home, Le Chalet, will be echoing with the happy squeals and laughter of children this festive season. “It’s going to be a great Christmas – the first time we’ll have a house full of kids,” says Rod, referring to their grandchildren: three-year-old cousins Grace and Will, and Mary and Oliver, both one.
In anticipation, Annette’s been busy wrapping presents and trimming the tree. “We’ve hardly seen the two little ones at all,” she explains, “because our boys live in Sydney and Sydney’s been in lockdown.”
Rod, an agricultural scientist who
