TWENTY QUESTIONS

QUESTION ONE : Describe yourself in three words.

1.     Really
2.     Very
3.     Tall

QUESTION TWO : Give us a quick rundown of a typical day at Suna for you?

There isn’t one. There’s not really anything ‘typical’ about the job or Suna! The list of activities is huge - concepting, collaborating, presenting, meeting suppliers, meeting clients, attending awards and with a bit of luck winning the odd one or two along the way!

QUESTION THREE : What’s your favourite Suna project?

Current favourite is Telereal Trillium, 127 West Ealing as we’ve just got to see the end-results of a job we started designing three years ago! Fair to say we’re all pretty chuffed with the way this one turned out, especially the pretty damn sexy postbox lobby – yep, that’s a thing!

QUESTION FOUR : Tell us something about you we would never guess?

There are actually some wines that I don’t like

QUESTION FIVE : If you had £1,000,000 what would you spend it on?

Oh I hate this question…. This is where desperately dull Steven comes out to play….. First thing I’d do is pay off the mortgage (and then get straight onto Rightmove to find a much larger, more expensive house to buy and saddle myself with exactly the same size blumin’ mortgage!!)

QUESTION SIX : Favourite food/drink?

Oh come on, who wrote these. That’s too damn hard!

Right, defo some sort of seafood and not something light and delicate, we’re talking full on, like anchovies, swordfish, oysters, monkfish livers…… Drink would defo be a wine of some description, would take me a month of Sundays to narrow that one down a bit more!

QUESTION SEVEN : Least favourite food/drink?

Anything that tastes remotely of almond essence – so marzipan, Bakewell Tart, Amaretto – work of the bl**dy devil…..

QUESTION EIGHT : Favourite film?

Again, too hard!! If the measure of a favourite is how many times it’s been watched in a lifetime, then it’s a toss-up between Shirley Valentine, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, 9 to 5 and Clue (that last one’s a bit niche and shows my age, but many a school holiday was spent watching this glorious, camp nonsense on repeat)

QUESTION NINE : Favourite holiday destination?

For a city break don’t think I’ll ever tire of New York and for a fly and flop you surely can’t beat a Greek Island

QUESTION TEN : What are your top three pet peeves?

• Tech not working (I have the patience of a 2-year-old)

• Queuing (I have the patience of a 2-year-old)

• Other people being late (I have the patience of a 2-year-old)

QUESTION ELEVEN : What does an ‘ideal weekend’ look like for you

Copious amounts of awesome food and booze, preferably with an awesome bunch of mates. Give me control of the playlist as well and I’m a pig in proverbial!!

QUESTION TWELVE : Favourite restaurant/hotel?

Mandarin Oriental Barcelona – that place ruined all other hotels for me!!

QUESTION THIRTEEN : Do you believe in ghosts and/or aliens?

Ghosts, no. Aliens, definitely yes. There’s gotta be others out there right? It’s pretty big, we can’t be the only ones surely?? (Think I was just force-fed too much Star Trek as a small child!)

QUESTION FOURTEEN : Favourite late-night snack?

Does more wine count?!

QUESTION FIFTEEN : What embarrasses you or has been your most embarrassing moment

Like I’m gonna tell you that!!

QUESTION SIXTEEN : If you weren’t in your current role, what other career could you have seen yourself doing?

Motoring journalist

QUESTION SEVENTEEN : What is your biggest fear?

Nice try – also not gonna tell you that

QUESTION EIGHTEEN : When have you felt the most proud?

I dealt with a spider (a bl**dy big one) in the house all on my own once when t’other half was on a work trip. That was a pretty proud moment let me tell you! D*mn, think I’ve just given away one of my many fears…….

QUESTION NINETEEN : What’s your go-to dish when you have to make dinner?

It’d defo be some form of comfort food and something that involves quite obscene amounts of butter and a frankly embarrassing quantity of garlic – normally a fish pie (I do a mean fish pie!) or a risotto

QUESTION TWENTY : Do you have any weird phobias?

Using spoons. Phobia’s too strong a word, but defo a strange foible! Obvs there are some things you have to use them for, but I’ll avoid where possible. And a restaurant that doesn’t believe in dessert forks is dead to me!