For knitwear designer Alex Gore Browne, JCB heir Jo Bamford and their family, a strict lockdown routine is the key to feeling calm I manage to catch Alex Gore Browne on a crackly phone connection during her lunch break, before “humanities with Mrs Bamford” kicks off the afternoon’s lessons.
Like parents across the country, the knitwear designer, 44, whose husband Jo Bamford is heir to the JCB empire, is home-schooling her two children, nine-year-old Teddy and 11-year-old Tilly.
Fewer families, though, count two donkeys, three ponies and three dogs among their lockdown crew. The Bamford clan are on lockdown at Tidmington House in Shipston-on-Stour, the Grade II-listed Cotswolds manor house they bought in 2009.