Waitrose or Tesco (or neither)? Waitrose for everything but wine, which I usually buy in Tescos. Or three for the price of two in Threshers.
What do you think about traffic wardens? Walking round Lewes in those uniforms is one of the jobs I’d least like to do.
Which newspaper do you read? I’m not a great newspaper reader. Sometimes we get the Independent or the Guardian. At the weekend the Sunday Times or the Independent on Sunday.
Are you pro or anti the Phoenix development? I think the riverside area’s a bit nothingy, but I’m disturbed by the intensity of the proposed development and worried about how it might change the demographics of the town.
Favourite Lewes landmark? The supposed jousting green by the castle. Surely it’s not big enough to joust - you’d as easily do it in a phone box. It looks like a manicured stretch of Downs stuck in the middle of town. I love it when it gets covered in mist
How often do you go to London and Brighton? When I came here I was a metropoliphobe but I was in London the other day and suddenly I loved everything about it from the rushes of hot air in the tube to the anonymity you get there. It goes in phases.
How would you spend a perfect Sunday afternoon? Sunday’s changed since I was a kid. It used to be the day you didn’t do anything. I like it when I have nothing I have to do.
What’s on your hifi? I’m into tango at the moment. Authentic classical tango. I recently went to tango dance lessons and it made me appreciate the music.
Lewes would be better if… There was a focal point where you could find out about all the artistic events in the town.
What Lewes really doesn’t need is… to lose its quaintness and the integratedness of the pub life. You go to pubs in other places and it’s all one age or one class. Here there’s a great mix.