The artist had a phobia about throwing things out, so she had accumulated chests full of clothes—hers, her husband's and her sons' (she had three, two survive)—as well as old tablecloths and other linens.
But A Country Child, Uttley's overpoweringly rich and detailed reminiscences about her late-Victorian childhood in a farmhouse in Derbyshire fed my very soul as surely as her lived experience did hers.
Apfel has a story to tell about each of her outfits; she insists that hers is not a fashion collection, because she bought every piece to wear.
Roberts denied the crack and heroin were hers, and said the cash had come from her grandmother and she used the scales to weigh cannabis.
Last December's production of Lungs by Macmillan, who has known Mitchell ever since he appeared in a student production of hers aged eight, told the story of a young couple worrying about having a baby in a era of global warming and overpopulation.
Despite this, she feels the presence of younger groups like hers is welcomed.
Whitfield is the latest in a long line of familiar faces who have joined the soap this year, but sadly hers is only a one-off appearance.
"We're all human," says Lucas. "We all have the odd off day, and she openly acknowledged hers.
Where once the models on the catwalk looked like Victoria clones, now they are quite distinct – though this season they were carrying large handbags tucked under their arms, which is how the designer usually holds hers.
"She was grabbing lunch and ate for 45 minutes in the restaurant," manager Charles Wright told the Guardian, adding that few customers even noticed the former secretary of state was eating a chicken bowl with "a friend of hers" – apparently Abedin.
His and hers prints Sophie Ellis Bextor and Richard Jones in matching monochrome: you have been warned.
