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听 | Mike鈥檚 answers | Rita鈥檚 answers |
Where and when did you first meet? | In the 1960s I was a church sidesman and youthclub treasurer 鈥 this is where we met. | We first met at our church youth club in 1963. I was the catering manager and Mike ended up as treasurer. |
How鈥檚 your partner鈥檚 work鈥搇ife balance? | Rita鈥檚 a professional secretary 鈥 she keeps me in line. | Mike is dedicated to work, loves it. Mind you, he still finds time to do the garden and decorating. He is so laid back. |
What鈥檚 your partner鈥檚 favourite film? | Rita鈥檚 favourite film is Breakfast at Tiffany鈥檚. When in New York a few years ago we visited Tiffany鈥檚. | Mike鈥檚 favourite film is North by NorthWest with Cary Grant. He鈥檇 love to visit Mount Rushmore one of these days. |
What鈥檚 most important to your partner in business: profit, enjoyment, public success or size? | Our objective is to achieve something worthwhile for ourselves and the precast industry, while enjoying ourselves 鈥 and we are. | The most important thing to Mike is business and enjoyment, mind you profit does come into the scenario. |
What鈥檚 your partner鈥檚 most irritating trait? | Rita鈥檚 dogged dedication to work at all hours 鈥 some retirement! | Mike鈥檚 most irritating trait is living for work, I thought he would slow down after being in the business more than 40 years. |
If you were to cook your partner a meal what would it be? | I regularly cook from the weightwatchers recipe book The Time to Eat. Current favourite is beef en croute. | I love cooking. When we have been on holiday Mike just loves the Sunday roast: roast beef and Yorkshire puds. Or just egg and chips. |
How would your partner describe your role in the business and their strengths? | Rita鈥檚 strengths are in keeping us organised. | We work as a team and Mike is introducing me to his contacts. We went to Barcelona last October and I met a lot of contacts. |
What do you think your partner鈥檚 role is in the business? | Rita鈥檚 role is to be my strictest critic. | As I have said before he just loves his work. I don鈥檛 think he鈥檒l ever give up. |
Describe your partner鈥檚 ideal Valentine鈥檚 Day. | One hell of a good lunch. | We read the papers, then go out for a nice lunch and then I expect he will fall asleep in his chair until tea! |
Do you ever see your professional partnership ending? Is your partner likely to stay in his or her business permanently? | Till death us do part. | After 37 years of marriage I don鈥檛 think things will change. He just sleeps, dreams about business and his family, which is lovely. |
Couple 2 | ||
听 | Matthew鈥檚 answers | Carolyn鈥檚 answers |
Where and when did you first meet? | The Hogshead, Dering Street. I was expanding on the pros and cons of architectural PR and she introduced herself. | Hogshead in Dering Street, below Eva Jiricna鈥檚 old office in 1990. He annoyed me; very arrogant and dismissive of PR. |
How鈥檚 your partner鈥檚 work鈥搇ife balance? | If we took work as seriously as life then we鈥檇 both be unbalanced. | He does bring it home with him, (metaphorically speaking), but he does come home. He doesn鈥檛 take himself too seriously. |
What鈥檚 your partner鈥檚 favourite film? | Far from the Madding Crowd. Recently she鈥檚 taken to wandering around mumbling 鈥済ive me back my Gabriel鈥. | Network with Peter Finch and Faye Dunaway sums up his cynical view! Equal billing with Blade Runner 鈥 the architectural icon. |
What鈥檚 most important to your partner in business: profit, enjoyment, public success or size? | Enjoyment 鈥 she鈥檚 emotionally engaged all the time she鈥檚 in her office. | Enjoyment definitely. He does really get off on challenging architectural and technical problems. |
What鈥檚 your partner鈥檚 most irritating trait? | Just when everything is set and organised she will add one more thing to do. | Now then. His inability to keep a diary, carry cash or listen to me! |
If you were to cook your partner a meal what would it be? | Snails and champagne cocktails, beef Wellington, spinach pudding and Pouilly Fum茅, apple pie. | Oysters, whiskey steaks and a perfectly spherical treacle pudding. |
How would your partner describe your role in the business and their strengths? | We don鈥檛 work together and she hasn鈥檛 changed my attitude to PR. | His technical ability commands respect in his company. Unfortunately he has crap people skills. Bless. |
What do you think your partner鈥檚 role is in the business? | Either she is subverting an otherwise healthy meritocracy. Or she leavens the quality of architecture. | A simple engineer. |
Describe your partner鈥檚 ideal Valentine鈥檚 Day. | In Norfolk together with our children. Preferably but not essentially cold and clear. | I cannot reveal this to the public. |
Do you ever see your professional partnership ending? Is your partner likely to stay in his or her business permanently? | I couldn鈥檛 picture her in any other role and hope she enjoys it for a long time to come. | He will always be involved in engineering. More likely to be another John Coates and rebuild the Athenian trireme. |
Couple 3 | ||
听 | David鈥檚 answers | Yusnidar answers |
Where and when did you first meet? | Easy one. Outside Shin Egashira鈥檚 unit space in the Architectural Association corridor. Day one of diploma at the AA. | At the corridor before unit interviews at the Architectural Association鈥檚 freshers鈥 week 1997. |
How鈥檚 your partner鈥檚 work鈥搇ife balance? | Timewise it鈥檚 good, but mentally it one or the other. I don鈥檛 think about home when she鈥檚 working. At home, work is nowhere. | 65% work, 35% me, travel, family, friends, DIY, exercise, socialising, personal development, sailing, movies, football, Formula 1. |
What鈥檚 your partner鈥檚 favourite film? | We rarely like the same films, so 鈥渁ll the films I hate鈥 鈥 for example Grease, Charlie鈥檚 Angles. We both like The Big Blue. | The Big Blue 鈥 he likes |
What鈥檚 most important to your partner in business: profit, enjoyment, public success or size? | Smoking. | Public success, enjoyment by others, and profit (if he鈥檚 lucky). |
What鈥檚 your partner鈥檚 most irritating trait? | She cooks for me anything Malaysian, as long as it has chicken in it. I cook for her trout. | Dreams/nightmares about work deadlines. |
If you were to cook your partner a meal what would it be? | My role: 鈥榚verything鈥 or 鈥榯he boss鈥. My strengths: sheer hard work. | Fish poached in milk 鈥 he thinks it鈥檚 authentic Scottish. Yuck! |
How would your partner describe your role in the business and their strengths? | Enjoyment first I would say. If she ever isn鈥檛 enjoying it, things can get hairy鈥 | One of the core members that makes 鈥渢hings happen鈥. His strength 鈥 he鈥檚 able to talk most clients into anything. |
What do you think your partner鈥檚 role is in the business? | All-rounder and, er, trouble shooter. | The business is a tool to make architecture that he enjoys. |
Describe your partner鈥檚 ideal Valentine鈥檚 Day. | Me not going away skiing for a start 鈥 then probably us going away instead on a minibreak. | To be like any other day, with a twist of style and decadence. |
Do you ever see your professional partnership ending? Is your partner likely to stay in his or her business permanently? | Probably she鈥檒l stay, although I know she鈥檇 love to open a Malaysian restaurant and I want her to do it. | Without a doubt, yes. |
Couple 4 | ||
听 | Anthony鈥檚 answers | Samantha鈥檚 answers |
Where and when did you first meet? | The Lyons + Sleeman + Hoare Christmas party in 1996. It had a Titanic theme, I was a stoker and Sam was a bathing beauty! | The Christmas fancy dress party at Lyons + Sleeman + Hoare in December 1996. |
How鈥檚 your partner鈥檚 work鈥搇ife balance? | Well balanced, but cut her in half and she would have Broadway Malyan written inside like a stick of rock. | Very good 鈥 works efficiently and home in time to cook my tea! |
What鈥檚 your partner鈥檚 favourite film? | A Night in Casablanca by the Marx Brothers. She thinks they are hilarious and does a great impression of Groucho. | The Italian Job, due to his love of the Mini and anything 1960s. |
What鈥檚 most important to your partner in business: profit, enjoyment, public success or size? | Enjoyment 鈥 it鈥檚 important for her to be happy. | Enjoyment. |
What鈥檚 your partner鈥檚 most irritating trait? | Being right all the time. | Being practically perfect in every way. Almost a male Mary Poppins! |
If you were to cook your partner a meal what would it be? | Pizza definitely, with no mushrooms. | Would have to be fresh pasta from the supermarket because it is quick, easy and tasty. |
How would your partner describe your role in the business and their strengths? | Enjoys a varied and challenging role within the company and the 鈥渟port鈥 of arguing with architects. | As a team player and 鈥渏oker鈥 who works hard in a fun and forward-thinking environment. |
What do you think your partner鈥檚 role is in the business? | Sam鈥檚 role would be to provide amusement for the team and do her job well 鈥 but primarily the first! | The graphic design lynchpin who reminds architects that text doesn鈥檛 have to line up with something. |
Describe your partner鈥檚 ideal Valentine鈥檚 Day. | Opens the front door and sees Jonny Wilkinson holding two tickets to a Reading football match. | A Mini Cooper racing day with Kylie as the first prize. |
Do you ever see your professional partnership ending? Is your partner likely to stay in his or her business permanently? | Yes, Sam will always be an architect. | Like all graphic designers he yearns to do something different 鈥 Maybe he should become an architect! |
Couple 5 | ||
听 | Chris鈥 answers | Anna鈥檚 answers |
Where and when did you first meet? | Cannes: MIPIM 1999, although we had met briefly a month or two before. | MIPIM 1999. |
How鈥檚 your partner鈥檚 work鈥搇ife balance? | Unfortunately balanced with hard work on both sides. | 60% work, 40% leisure although he would like it the other way around. |
What鈥檚 your partner鈥檚 favourite film? | Out of Africa. | Out of Africa. |
What鈥檚 most important to your partner in business: profit, enjoyment, public success or size? | Profit and enjoyment. | Enjoyment and profit |
What鈥檚 your partner鈥檚 most irritating trait? | Of course none; but if you had to push me鈥 actually really can鈥檛 think of one. | Stubbornness. |
If you were to cook your partner a meal what would it be? | BBQ on a beach somewhere sunny with plenty of wine. | A filet of venison with sweet potato pur茅e and caramalised carrots followed by crumble with cr猫me anglaise. |
How would your partner describe your role in the business and their strengths? | She鈥檇 describe me as the one who thinks everyone is doing what I say, but in fact are doing things their own way far more successfully. | His strengths are planning, organisation and strategy and he would describe my role as being a voice of reason. |
What do you think your partner鈥檚 role is in the business? | Strategic awareness combined with day-to-day practicality. | Chris provides the drive for those working with him 鈥 he is a very good motivator and shows people their potential |
Describe your partner鈥檚 ideal Valentine鈥檚 Day. | If we spent the whole day laughing, the rest really wouldn鈥檛 matter. | A nice glass of red wine in front of the fire |
Do you ever see your professional partnership ending? Is your partner likely to stay in his or her business permanently? | It鈥檚 quite possible it would end if family life dictated it should | Not really, although I may end up spending more time with our children; we will probably always talk about and plan the business鈥 way forward. |
Couple 6 | ||
听 | Martin鈥檚 answers | Nicky鈥檚 answers |
Where and when did you first meet? | 26 years ago at my sister-in-law鈥檚 18th birthday party. I married Nicky and my sister-in-law married my younger brother! | We first met in a pub in Old Bosham Sussex. I was 13 (drinking a coke). I told my sister that was the man I was going to marry (so romantic). |
How鈥檚 your partner鈥檚 work鈥搇ife balance? | As bad as mine, but at least she manages to keep fit. Since training for the marathon last year, she has become an endorphin junkie. | He is a complete workaholic (except for golf, which he describes as business development). We talk work almost 24 hours a day. |
What鈥檚 your partner鈥檚 favourite film? | An Affair to Remember with Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr. A classic weepie that still has her in tears. | The Shawshank Redemption. |
What鈥檚 most important to your partner in business: profit, enjoyment, public success or size? | Some recognition that all the blood, sweat and tears is actually worth something tangible, at the end of the day. | Profit most probably comes top of the list, because I hate anything to do with money . Next would be public success alongside enjoyment. |
What鈥檚 your partner鈥檚 most irritating trait? | This is getting dangerous. Genuinely hard to think of one but, if really pushed, would probably say her sense of direction. Visual dyslexia. | Difficult one 鈥 Probably a few as working together can be tough, so tiny things do grind. Whereas realistically he is not really irritating at all. |
If you were to cook your partner a meal what would it be? | This is a big 鈥渋f鈥 as my culinary skills are very rusty. But it would be tricolore salad, pasta puttanesca and bread-and-butter pudding. | Tricolore salad followed by pasta puttanesca and cr猫me brul茅e to finish. |
How would your partner describe your role in the business and their strengths? | She would probably say I am disruptive, moody and too focused on managing cash flow. All quite true. | He would say I am good at managing relationships as I love people and communicating. |
What do you think your partner鈥檚 role is in the business? | Brilliantly developing and managing client relationships. Nobody does it better. | Managing the cashflow and his understanding of the market as an ex-developer/architect. |
Describe your partner鈥檚 ideal Valentine鈥檚 Day. | Not talking or thinking about work for a whole day and probably lying in the sunshine on some deserted beach. | This year, I have organised a Valentine鈥檚 party at our house, so that lets lots of people off the hook. |
Do you ever see your professional partnership ending? Is your partner likely to stay in his or her business permanently? | Absolutely, but only at a time that suits the business and which does not diminish the value that we have worked hard to create (and share). | One day possibly, but at the moment my new year鈥檚 resolution is to try and take each day as it comes. |
Couple 7 | ||
听 | Chris鈥 answers | Jans鈥 answers |
Where and when did you first meet? | Oxford Planning Law Conference 1996. | Oxford Planning Law Conference 1996. |
How鈥檚 your partner鈥檚 work鈥搇ife balance? | Could be better, could be worse. | Better than mine. |
What鈥檚 your partner鈥檚 favourite film? | Casablanca. | He doesn鈥檛 like films. |
What鈥檚 most important to your partner in business: profit, enjoyment, public success or size? | Enjoyment, given this choice. Doing a good job also. | Enjoyment. |
What鈥檚 your partner鈥檚 most irritating trait? | Losing the keys to the front door. | Being right. |
If you were to cook your partner a meal what would it be? | My celery soup, followed by Hungarian goulash or beef in ginger, finishing with lemon cheesecake, with a raspberry coulis. | Duck and Mediterranean roast vegetables, rhubarb brul茅e, dark chocolate mints. |
How would your partner describe your role in the business and their strengths? | Strategic thinking and vast experience. | He would say I provide practical advice and commercial experience. |
What do you think your partner鈥檚 role is in the business? | Detailed knowledge of the system and utterly brilliant interpersonal skills. Understanding legislation. | His strengths he would say are strategic thinking and experience. |
Describe your partner鈥檚 ideal Valentine鈥檚 Day. | Lying on a beach in the sun, with a good meal and lots of wine (paid for by me) in the evening. | A Man United match, shopping, meal out followed by a visit to a classical music concert or opera. |
Do you ever see your professional partnership ending? Is your partner likely to stay in his or her business permanently? | Yes (until too old to stand up any more). | No, only in retirement. |
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