Peter Bennett
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Peter Bennett


Star Sign: Gemini
Career History: Joined Dolmans in 1993.
Interesting Facts  
Sporting Heroes: Andy Kirkpatrick, Joe Simpson, Dougal Haston, Bradley Wiggins, Nathan Rennie, Steve Peat, Grant Fielder.
What Drives Me: Getting results, making calls (and hopefully getting them right), understanding problems and constructing solutions better than anyone else.
Likes: Honesty and dedication.
Dislikes: How does one put this? – “B***s***!”.
What makes me laugh?: Usually at the darker end of the scale but I guess more or less what everyone else finds amusing.
Favourite TV Shows: Life on Mars, Ashes to Ashes, Tribe, Dexter, Spooks, South Park, Mythbusters.
Top Holiday Destination: Family holiday – somewhere with lots of other kids for mine to play with. Weekends away – St David’s in Pembrokeshire. Boys’ holiday – Alps, Morzine or Whistler. Dream holiday – trek to Everest base camp or Annapurna sanctuary.
Favourite Films: Roam, Touching the Void, Hellboy, Pan’s Labyrinth, 300, Gladiator, Blazing Saddles, Eastern Promises, Grosse Point Blank, Kung Fu Hustle.
Favourite Music: Rise Against, Boy Sets Fire, The Clash, Linkin Park, Five Finger Death Punch, Alexisonfire, Papa Roach, In Flames
Interests / Hobbies: Mountains basically – from mountain biking, to mountaineering, to climbing, to simply walking through or over them.
What else?: If I had not been a lawyer I would have loved to have been a mountaineer.
Funny Story?: I suffer with dyslexia, as a consequence I was very late in learning to read – my first primary school teacher told my parents I was backward and would be lucky to ever hold down a manual job….how right she was!