Linda Penn, owner and managing director of Lowes Menswear, has a habit of calling her son Joshua on her drive home from work. The timing tends to coincide with ‘witching hour’. That cursed time every parent in the thick of it with young children is familiar with – the dinner/bath/bed dance. It’s one that Joshua, who has two children, son Brooklyn and daughter Blake, with his husband Benjamin Palmer, knows well.
“I ring Josh and I always think, ‘Oh, it’s a bad time,’” says Linda, who is a mother of three grown children.
“She calls me anyway,” says Joshua, who is co-owner of the Belinda International luxury fashion boutiques. The sense is that he doesn’t mind in the slightest.
Indeed the pair, who this year are co-chairs for the annual Gold Dinner, which in May will mark its 25th anniversary and raises funds for the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Foundation, call each other up to 15 times
