My Saturday

TV presenter Kate Garraway’s weekend plans

6.30am I wake up early on weekends, though somehow it still manages to feel like a liein, as usually I get picked up at 2.15am to get to Good Morning Britain. I head downstairs and watch Gardeners’ World, recorded from the night before

– I’m completely in love with Monty Don. 9am I potter out to the garden with a cup of tea before making breakfast – some cereal or porridge – for the kids, Billy, 10, and Darcey, 13. I chuck on a maxi-dress or something by Tabitha Webb, then take the two of them to local performing-arts and gymnastics clubs. 11am I meet up with my husband [Derek Draper, a former political advisor turned psychotherapist] afterwards at Owen’s, an organic café we’ve recently started going to. Derek’s not a natural organic-food type, but now he loves it. I have a full English breakfast and two pots of builders’ tea, nice and strong, and that’s our time together. 1pm We grab the kids and head home, then I go back to bed for a kip for about an hour, while Derek sorts their lunch. Later, we all go for a walk in the beautiful Coldfall Wood in north London. I’m very conscious that my children have been brought up in a city and not the country, like me, and it really struck me when they seemed so surprised by the seasons. 4pm We’re keen cinemagoers and I love the sofas at the Everyman Cinema nearby. Billy is a massive fan of Avengers and Guardians of the Galaxy, so we see something with capes. 7pm Derek and I take a taxi to Brick Lane for a curry. I always have the hottest dish, a jalfrezi with an onion bhaji on the side, and a lager, while Derek has a chicken biryani and champagne, and the waiter never quite believes the pint is for me. Midnight I used to be someone who would come home with the dawn, but now I’d rather be in my comfy pyjamas, bought for me by Gloria De Piero [former political editor at GMTV; now Labour MP for Ashfield], who buys all my pyjamas. I slather on a bit of Matrixyl 10% + HA by The Ordinary. That’s all I keep on my bedside table – that and a book. All of my other stuff is in the spare room…

I’M READING How To Be Right: In a World Gone Wrong by James O’brien. He’s a great thinker and very articulate. WH Allen, £8.99

MY FAVOURITE SCENT I wear a bespoke fragrance, a mix of rose and oud, that my husband had made for me at Montale in Paris. montaleparfums.com

I’M WATCHING Madam Secretary –ithas abitofa West Wing vibe about it. Téa Leoni, who plays Elizabeth Mccord, has a great wardrobe.

Silk blouse £295, tabithawebb.co.uk

Matrixyl 10% + HA £9, The Ordinary, cultbeauty.com