Kim Sanders

On an ideal weekend, you can find me:

In an excellent restaurant, eating amazing food and drinking beautiful wine with the people that I love spending time with.

My favourite holiday destination is:

Too many to choose from! But if it was my last day on Earth, I’d probably spend it in the mountains of France. It’s a proper happy place for me – the air is just incredible, and pure Evian water flows out of the taps.

My favourite song to play in the car is:

‘Eternal Flame’ by The Bangles (if you can hear it over me singing it).

The first album I bought was:

Starry Night by Julio Iglesias (please don’t judge me, I was very young).

If I could be any fictional character, I would be:

Baloo from The Jungle Book. What a dude. He totally gets the concept of simplicity, happiness, and friendship.

If I could turn any activity into an Olympic sport, I would win a medal in:

Efficiency and productivity.

When the dessert menu arrives, I’m looking for:

A “Champagne Gourmand” – a French platter of various mini desserts, accompanied by a glass of Champagne. I like a little spoonful of lots of different things, washed down with something luxurious and decadent.

The three qualities that draw me to new people are:

Good manners, a sense of humour, and a kind of “leftfield” quirkiness that makes me feel at home with them.

My pet peeve is:

Ditherers. People who walk incredibly slowly but take up the whole space in front of you so you can’t get around them.

The best gift I’ve ever received is:

The ability to rise above every challenge that life has thrown at me so far and to still dust myself off and come back for more.

The three people at my dream dinner party would be:

My Granddad. He never talked about his experiences in WWII, and I’d really like to have had the opportunity to ask him about it. It’s important to learn from these stories and pass them on.

Professor Brian Cox – a proper intellectual who can explain highly complex things in layman’s terms. Plus, who can resist that smile?

Freddie Mercury. We’d need an all-round entertainer at the dinner party, and I can’t think of anyone more suitably qualified in every way!

The three small things that make my day better are:

Breakfast. It’s the most important meal of the day.

Mid-morning cappuccino.

Feeding my fish and the birds in my garden and seeing their babies growing up. It’s immensely rewarding to create a safe and beautiful space where Mother Nature can do its thing.

Three things I haven’t done so far include:

Travelling to Australia and New Zealand.

Buying my “forever” home. I’m still working on that.

Watching a horror film (because why would I do that to myself?).