Great British Life: At Home In The Cotswolds
At Home In The Cotswolds with Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp
Fancy a delicious treat? Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp are taking their stonkingly popular Sunday Lunch rock video-performances on tour. Katie Jarvis asks all the important questions, including which of them does the washing up
It’s the first week of lockdown: a Sunday in April 2020. Six-am and a warm sun is rising.
In the outside world (whatever that might mean in April 2020), everyone is feeling unnerved; scared, even. The pandemic has started; people are prisoners in their own homes; time on their hands but – in a possible first – no one has the slightest idea what to do with it.
Oh – except for Toyah Willcox, that is.
Out in the garden of her Pershore home, she’s doing what she feels to be The Obvious. ‘If we’re stuck in this house for weeks,’ she thinks, ‘I’m going to put a ball gown on.’
Which she does. Pearlescent, fishtail, clingy, strappy, sheer; one of those inspired charity-shop buys.
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