Which newspaper do you read? I don’t have time. We used to get the Independent but it never got read, and just ended up as waste paper.
Are you pro or anti the Phoenix development? I think something has to happen down there, but I’m a bit concerned about it. Developers are well organised and they do what they do, but there’s no coherent voice on the other side. Just a lot of individual ones saying ‘I don’t like this’. There’s no vision: in the end the developers will get their way.
Favourite Lewes landmark? I love the view from the top of St Anne’s Hill looking over all the higgledy-piggledy rooftops. It’s best from the top of County Hall: even better as you can’t see County Hall from there.
How would you spend a perfect Sunday afternoon? Family time. I love spending summer days in the garden with my boy, who’s nine. He likes chopping things down.
What’s your favourite Lewes shop? Beckworth’s. For their Saturday morning buns.
What’s on your hifi? If I listen to any music I listen to soft rock. Joan Armatrading, that sort of thing. A bit sad, I know. But actually I much prefer listening to words than music. I love Radio 4. My favourite show? It has to be the Archers.
What’s you favourite foreign country? France. I like it there. It’s very civilised. They have patisseries.
What Lewes really doesn’t need is… Ever increasing property prices. Which is something completely out of its own control. Seaford and Newhaven are full of people who were born and bred in Lewes but can’t afford to stay here..