Staff Spotlight - Mark Perkins

Today we turn the spotlight to our newest recruit to the Procurement department, Mark Perkins. Here we learn about his passion for antiques and cottage pie.

What is your role at ESE Direct?

Category Specialist | Buyer

What do you like to do in your spare time?

Antique restoration

What music are you listening to at the moment?

Carrie Cleveland, The Jam, George Butterworth and Eddie Floyd

What is the most embarrassing CD/MP3/ record(?!) you own?

Madonna - Time Goes By

What was the last book you read and would you recommend it?

No Picnic on Mount Kenya. Yes if you like accounts of WW2 Italian prisoners of war escaping to climb Mount Kenya

What are your top 5 favourite films?

Never Let Me Go
Billy Liar
Lucky Jim
Deliverance
O Lucky Man

What is your favourite food, and when was the last time you ate it?

Cottage pie. 6 weeks ago

What 3 things would you choose to have with you if you were stranded on a desert island?

Knife, Flint & steel, shortwave radio transmitter/receiver

If you could have dinner with 3 people living or dead who would it be and why?

Rotten Ralph
Top Cat
Snagglepuss

What is your hidden talent?

Wood carving