My Saturday

Laurence Llewelyn-bowen on living with three generations in lockdown

6am I get up early and let the dogs [spaniels Florence, Dillis and Estella] out, then the hens and then go back to bed. We [Laurence and his wife Jackie] doze or I watch Poirot. It’s my guilty pleasure. We live in Siddington, in Gloucestershire, in an almost William Morris-style commune – an idyll of Cotswold ruralism. Hermione [their younger daughter], 22, moved back in from her flat in Cheltenham, and Cecile, 25, and her husband, Dan, who is my commercial director [of interior design business, LLB], have a flat in our compound with their three-year-old son, Albion. 11am We slide straight into brunch. Our big commitment is to eat as many eggs as possible because our hens are so productive. There’ll be scrambled eggs, smoked salmon and a semi-defrosted bagel. The catering required by lockdown is just ridiculous! 12pm Jackie has the most phenomenal green fingers, and this lockdown she’s annexed a small courtyard at the back of the house. She’s growing courgettes, tomatoes and chard. The garden is magical. It’s a great place to muck around with Albion – we created a gnome garden the other day. 2pm Drew, Hermione’s fiancé, is building himself a television console, which really looks as if he should just buy it from Ikea. I keep tutting as I walk by. By about 3pm I’m thinking of all the places that I haven’t seen in the house for a while, and start chucking out anything no longer required. 6.30pm We’ve got an extraordinary pizza oven :it looks like an instrument of torture but is a great focus on the terrace. Our lake of wine ebbs and flows. We’re very fond of Torrontés, an Argentine wine. 8pm

I make sure Jackie sits down with a comforting gin. Then it’s a night in front of the television. We’ve become obsessed with Rupaul’s Drag Race. In fact, when lockdown ends I might invite him for the weekend. I love to end the day with a really salty bath using good old-fashioned Epsom salts. It does mean you are lying in bed with salty skin. At 10pm

emails start coming through as we’ve launched product ranges in Australia and America. I cast a glance and think, ‘ I’ll sort that out tomorrow’, then go to sleep.

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I CAN’T STOP LAUGHING AT... My family and all the other animals that inhabit this space. It’s a guinea a minute! The chickens are perpetually at daggers drawn with the spaniels. The chickens just go for the attack – they’re ninjas.

MY SIGNATURE SCENT IS… Caffè Florian in Venice has fragrances named after each of the café’s rooms. There’s one called Room of the Illustrious Men. It’s got a wonderful chocolatey smell. £14.50 for 50ml, caffeflorian.com

I’M READING... Just Desserts: The Unauthorized Biography of Martha Stewart. It’s making sure that I very much keep my nose clean when it comes to lifestyle branding.

Clementi pizza oven, £2,470, thepizzaoven shop.com

Laurence with wife Jackie

David Suchet in Poirot, itv.com