What three words best describe you?

Determined, cheerful, big.

Who was your childhood hero and why?

The Man from Uncle.

What is the show you hate to miss?

Top Gear.

What is your favourite film?

The Shawshank Redemption.

What is your pet hate?

Whingeing behind people’s back. And the failure of FIFA to adopt modern technology in professional football.

If you could change one thing about the place where you live, what would it be?

Raise the village by a few feet to stop flooding.

What are you reading at the moment?

The Dambusters Squadron – Voices in Flight and John Grisham’s Sycamore Row.

Do you have any superstitions?

Always left foot first onto any football or cricket pitch, and put left boot on first.

What is your favourite word?

Congratulations.

And your least favourite word?

Sorry.

If you had one wish what would it be?

To have a horse win the Cheltenham Gold Cup.

What one place would you like to visit?

Australia.

What do you wish you were good at?

Singing – I can’t sing a note.

Who would you like to meet from history?

Winston Churchill.

If you had a time machine where would it take you?

Into the future to find a cure for cancer.

Is there someone well known you’ve met who really impressed you?

Princess Diana.

If you were stranded on a desert island what luxury would you choose to have with you?

It has to be a laptop and the internet.

Who was your first love?

Joanna Lumley in The Avengers.

What sports team do you support?

Salisbury City of course.

If you could take over someone’s job for the day, whose would you pick?

Manager of England at the World Cup.

What superpower would you like?

The ability to fly to avoid traffic jams.

What one thing could change society for the better?

We have some control over what people say on, for example twitter, but what gives a man in a football crowd the right to shout obscenities at players, and in front of children, without prosecution.

What is the most common misconception about you?

I’m quite shy, which sometimes makes me appear unfriendly to people I don’t know.

How did you meet your significant other?

In an operating theatre.