Not much in the way of news because we're in the middle of shooting French Food at Home (which is going great, by the way!). I get up at 5 every morning and am on set at 6. That's me in my dressing room with my hair and make-up artist, Kat Collicut. In one of the photos I'm holding our favourite dressing-room CD, Carla Bruni's "Quelqu'un m'a dit". We listened to it every single morning on last year's shoot, and this year we had plans for something new, but there isn't a lot of good music suited to 6 a.m., so Carla is back, as yet unrivalled.

We don't shoot weekends, although one of the two days is always gobbled up with meetings, so that leaves me with one "Laura day." Last year I used it for Italian lessons. This year my new venture is Pilates. I tried them in Paris, but there were only two small studios there and they were always over-booked. In Halifax, I have a private teacher who comes right to my house, which is a great luxury It's so weird about Pilates: it looks like you're doing nothing because the movements are so subtle, but it works. As my instructor said the other day: "Generally, if something feels difficult, it's wrong, and what feels easy is right." Apply that little tip to work and relationships for a second… She's right.

À bientôt,