
Countdown with ...
Amanda Lees
Website: https://amandalees.com
Interviewed 16 January 2021
Ten words to sum up your working life to date ...
An amazing rollercoaster ride I wouldn’t change for the world.
Nine things you can see from where you're sitting ...
A snoozing pup, a snoring cat, a vase of tulips, a rubber lizard, photos of my parents, three Chinese household gods, my mum’s rosewood cabinet that she left to me, my very last chocolate in its box and piles of books everywhere.
Eight minutes to prepare a meal. What's it going to be ?
Rice noodles with tons of veg stir-fried with garlic, ginger, spring onions, mirin and soy followed by coconut ice cream with lashings of homemade sloe gin poured over it.
Seven people you'd like to go for a drink with ...
Keanu Reeves, Nancy Wake, Michelle Obama, Chris Packham, Don McCullin, Dorothy Parker, Jacinda Ardern (yes, I know some of them are dead).
Six things you can't live without ...
Coffee, books, art, music, certain people, hope.
Five favourite words ...
Glorious, discombobulated, oleander, love, yes.
Four places you'd run away to ...
Hong Kong, New York, The Maldives, The Scottish Highlands and Islands
Three books you've bought recently ...
We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker, Valentina by Susie Lynes and Humble Pi by Matt Parker
Two things that make you rant ...
Bullies and injustice
One thing you'd tell your teenage self ...
Believe in yourself above everything because it will all be OK.