My daughter, Charlotte Strawbridge, has recorded an album, and my favourite song from that is 'Empires Made Of Sand.'
I was still a serving officer when I competed in 'Scrapheap Challenge,' initially as a major and then a lieutenant-colonel when I was joined by my brothers in a team called 'Brothers in Arms.'
All insulation is environmentally friendly. Some installation has better environmental credentials, but what matters is the energy it saves.
Although I am the oldest with the biggest moustache, my brothers are progressively taller; I put it down to the extra potatoes they were able to eat after I left home.
I had an idyllic childhood with the freedom to go and play.
There was always laughter in our house. And I have great memories of my dad making an Ulster fry on a Saturday morning. They were legendary even though he couldn't really cook.
I passed the 11-plus and went up to the senior school, where my two older sisters had already gone. I was in the 'A' stream, but in the third year, they asked me to give up Latin; no one had ever got 7 per cent before.
I'm a very simple person.
Who doesn't like playing with a railway? I think we've all got Thomas the Tank Engine in our blood.
Sadly, I have very vague memories of Burma. The family was forced to leave when the generals took over.
I love a challenge and a bit of fun.
When you work with people, you buy into it, you work together and you pull together. It doesn't matter what your challenge is: there's a sense of achievement at the end of it.
I was captain of the rugby side at Shrivenham - as were my two brothers after me.
For me, London seemed to be frantic without going anywhere.
Life is all about energy and passion and living it.
For over 20 years, I was in the Army, and it's given me a real love of history.
We forget the importance of engineering, but it's been used to design everything from St. Paul's Cathedral to The Shard.
As one of seven children, our family life was full of energy and fun - we all knew how to laugh and work hard.
When I joined the Army in the late '70s, there was a real threat from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, so all of the '80s, I was engaged in what could be classed as conventional operations - that involved digging lots of trenches in Germany.
My body was built through years of good food - and beer.
