Tuesday 29th April 2014

A whole page in today’s Daily Mail ! Angus Willis is glorified: ‘Meet the man whose DIY makeover took his home back 500 years’. Yes, Hastings! The Tudor House, with rope stair rail and barrel-as-lead-lined bath, which overflowed through three floors (very tiny Tudor ones) when Sid Id sat in it. Or perhaps it was Muriel McGlorian. Angus in person is pictured in a Shoreditch-bought Romanian Tudor peasant outfit in the newspaper.

I don’t know about DIY. Every builder in Hastings underwent destruction of the inner being. A special ward had to be opened up at Hastings General. £500,000 is given as the budget. £500,000 to achieve full Tudorisation, with furniture pecked by Romanian hens over several centuries, Orkney chairs to snag your cardy on and a hazardous ‘London’ gas cooker to replace the four-door Aga. Genevieve Suzy and I once had an exhibition lunch in the part of the Tudor House where the Aga used to be while the paying Public milled about, some of their number approaching: ‘Excuse me, are you Genevieve Suzy…of the Magazine World?’ Mercifully, I, Adrian Edge, was unrecognised.

The Tudor House, Hastings, is open this coming weekend. You absolutely must go. The BBC are filming for airing on Thursday. The Now Show.

The Tudor House, Hastings, rapidly approaches world-icon status. Get there before it’s too late. Sadly I’ll be on a Viking River Cruise and unavailable.

Angus Willis: Full Page Spread in the ‘Daily Mail’. Some Poor Little Rich Gays Loathe the ‘Daily Mail’ – Except When In It