It’s Friday, and the weekend is just around the corner. That means it is time to kick up your feet and relax with some quick fire questions. This ‘Time Out’ features Patrick McCutcheon, head of residential at Dacre, Son & Hartley, who would love to have the superpower of time travel!
What is the first thing you do to get the weekend started?
I spend twenty minutes trying to choose what fish to cook and how to do it without filling the house with smoke. Doesn’t go down well at home!
What is your hobby?
Anything to do with floating on, but keeping out of, the sea. My great great grandfather was a Liverpudlian sea captain, and I suspect there is something deep in my DNA drawing me to water – frustrating given I live in the middle of the country!
What is your favourite movie?
Stardust – a brilliant and adventurous tale by British director Mather Vaughn with an impressive cast including Rupert Everett, Peter O’Toole, Michelle Pfeiffer. Watched it numerous times with my two boys, its full of action, adventure and it also pulls at the heart strings.
If you hadn’t been successful at what you do, what would you be doing instead as a career?
Anything with positive energy, colour, excitement and travel.
If you could have any superpower, what would it be?
Time travel – so many fabulous stories and events from the past.
What is your secret talent?
Singing Welsh choral music in a deep baritone, normally to myself whilst in the kitchen. See question one!
What is your favourite genre of music?
When the recent film came out documenting their formation, I was staggered that some of my colleagues had never heard of Led Zeppelin! There is nothing better than ploughing through rough seas with side one of Led Zep 4 blaring out of the speakers!
If you could travel to any moment in time, where would you go?
The prewar Edwardian period must have been a fascinating time in this country, before the golden light of the afternoon faded.
