About me - Peter Parsons

Nineteen things:

Both my parents were only children, and I was their only child – yet I had eight half-brothers and sisters

I built my own guitar

My father was English, my mother French – they were 2nd cousins

I love football, but don’t support any teams although I can’t stand Manchester United

My Ipod has 5742 tracks on it

I worked for the same company, on the same site for 24 years and 7 months, with five different company names on the door.

I am a parent governor at my old high school

I have no middle name

I don’t like cabbage or cauliflower. Actually, “don’t like” is nowhere near strong enough

My guilty pleasure, musically, is Dvořák's “Stabat Mater”

I would love to see and cross the Viaduc de Millau in the south of France

I don’t believe in God, nor am I an atheist. I just don’t do religion.

I do love to be beside the seaside.

Politically I’d go for a free, but fair and regulated, market economy. I’d never join a political party.

I was once summarily smacked at school for beginning a sentence with “Because…”. Thanks, Mr Winterton

Because of, or despite, this I am pedantic about grammar.

Favourite food? Probably paella

My celebrity dinner guests would be Clarkson and Jennifer Saunders

My favourite places are the beach here in Goring and the Cap de la Hève near Le Havre, France