Sunday with Julian Clary: ‘Our family tradition is a midday gin’

‘My grandfather wasn’t allowed to drink until midday, so as noon struck, he’d pounce. I do, too, in memory of him’: Julin Clary. Photograph: Simone Padovani/Getty Images

Lie-in or early start? Definitely not a lie-in, because of my neurotic rescue dog Gigi. She was a feral creature living in a Serbian graveyard and demands to be taken out at about 7am, so there’s some negotiation between me and my husband as to who gets the job.

What’s for breakfast? I’ll eat blackberries and yoghurt and a £1 croissant from the local Co-op. But you have to get there early as the local cafés buy them up and then you see them in their windows for a fiver.