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of myself when I was laying paving with stone slabs. I had a wheelbarrow full of stone slabs, and I could wheel this thing and then lift up the slabs. I spent the whole day doing it.
“I don’t think I could even lift the wheelbarrow, you know? I couldn’t do it any more.
“John does the heavy work and I do the pretend gardening, like Marie Antoinette – I plant troughs.”
Prue was chatting at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show as an ambassador for the Freedom from Torture charity, and baked bread using wood in the Sanctuary for
Survivors garden. She has contributed a recipe to the charity’s new fundraising book.
But while she enjoys gardening, she does not always have the best luck at home. “I was digging in the vegetable garden, and I put a spade right
through a toad,” she grimaces. It was really upsetting. Though it would be worse to kill a hedgehog.”
Prue is currently filming alongside fellow
Great British
Bake Off judge Paul Hollywood for the Great American Baking Show. But far from any dreams of the Hollywood hills, she reveals the show is filming in Pinewood Studios, Buckinghamshire. “It’s all to do with the rules the unions have,” she says, explaining that makeup artists and hair stylists would cost more in the States. “It’s cheaper for them to come to us.”
Digging in the garden, I put a spade right through a toad
Prue notes Paul is currently struggling to sell his pub, The Chequers Inn in the Kent village of Smarden.
“They can’t get permission for change of use,” she adds.
“They can’t sell it as a pub because pubs are closing every day – nobody wants to buy a pub. They can’t get the staff, and people aren’t coming.
“The people objecting to the change of use are all locals, but when you say to them, well when were you last in there? And they say: ‘Oh well I didn’t come in.’ Use it or lose it.
“There are a lot of rich people in Cotswolds who don’t cook.
“So they go up to pubs all the time. So that helps the pubs.”