Trudie Styler's diary

When I'm in London I start by having business meetings and catching up with friends - it's always a whirl of activity. I've recently launched Lake House Table, fresh ready-to-cook kitchen suppers for time-poor people. Sting tests all the dishes and they very much reflect our own tastes. Whenever I talk to people about food they always think I'm a vegetarian but I love meat. I'm quite boyish in my tastes; peppered steak is one of my favourites because it's quite piccante. I sent one of the meals to Jamie Oliver and he had it for dinner with Jules. He phoned me up the next morning to say how great it was. Jamie is my hero, I think what he is doing with school menus is brilliant. Nowadays, kids take something out of the fridge and walk around with it and call it a meal. I was brought up in a very different way. I'm a strong advocate of the Sunday lunch, and a family roast
is an important ritual for us.

Fundraising for our Rainforest Foundation is very difficult in this climate. I've just organised another Ormeley Dinner, after hosting the first one with Zac Goldsmith and Damian Aspinall earlier this year. It's a huge amount of organisation but it was an amazing evening and we raised a whopping £1.8 million. Sting performed and shared the spotlight with Anish Kapoor, who donated a sensational sphere for the auction which went for £420,000. I'd met him earlier this year and spent a lovely evening with him in Delhi. I asked him if he'd consider endowing our environmental evening with a piece and he said he'd think about it. Then he called me up out of the blue agreeing to give us something.

I start every day with an hour and a half of Garuda yoga, and when I am in London you'll find me at James D'Silva's studio in St John's Wood. James is my teacher but I've also been working with him to create a yoga DVD for weight loss. The Garuda machines we use look like huge beds, which is rather enticing because you think you're going for a nap, but lo and behold, the beds separate and lots of bands come down for stretching, elongating and bum work. In London, I live next to St James's Park so when I'm not with James you can often see me doing a few sun salutations by the ponds, until the Japanese tourists get too curious. They think it's hilarious.

I make sure to exercise wherever I am in the world. Sting and I have just taken a break on a beautiful schooner called Eleanora and we tried to do yoga on the boat, but it kept rocking so we gave up and did hula hooping instead. It's my new craze - I can now hold my hoop up for 20 minutes. It's great for your core. We were sailing from the French Riviera to our Tuscan estate, Il Palagio, where we previewed our very first vintage, a 2007 named Sister Moon, after one of Sting's songs. We're new kids on the block when it comes to wine-making but we've had fantastic success. Everyone around me was quaffing red wine but I'm allergic so I can only sip it. The Italians love seeing Sting on the estate, they call him 'il maestro'.

As usual, our holiday turned into a gourmet extravaganza. We stopped off at Cannes, Monaco and San Remo and also ate at my favourite restaurant in the world, La Colombe d'Or in Saint-Paul de Vence, where you begin every meal with an enormous bowl of crudités and the fattest radishes you've ever seen accompanied by a heavenly anchovy dip. We also opened a great bottle of Côtes de Provence which, for me, heralds the beginning of the summer.
(lakehousetable.co.uk)