DAVE LOGAN, 66, from Liden, chairman of the Swindon and district branch of Parkinson’s UK

Do you cook a lot yourself? What is your failsafe dish?

I cook occasionally when Daphne, my wife, has been out childminding the grandchildren to have dinner ready when she gets home. I prefer to have the kitchen to myself and don’t normally use a recipe, preferring to improvise as I go along.

My failsafe dishes tend to be pasta or to marinate chicken or pork before cooking.

Other than that I love to barbecue using my Webber and it has to be done over charcoal. My favourite BBQ dishes are Beer Can Chicken and Salmon on a Plank.

Where do you like to eat out? How often?

We do like to eat out but not so often these days. My favourite place is the Biplob in Old Town where we have been going for years and always get takeaway from.

Recently we have tried the new Flame restaurant at Blunsdon House and had a really great meal there. Their mixed starter is something special and can also be a main course.

What do you always hope to find on a menu? For starter? Main course?

Dessert?

At the Biplob, it tends to be Chicken Chat for starter, but I like to vary the mains.

At other places I like to a good soup, steak or pasta and what I call a proper pud, sticky toffee or spotted dick and custard.

Which foods did you hate as a child? Do you eat them now?

When I was a child I hated cabbage and unless I ate it there was no pudding. I now like to eat cabbage. I never liked shellfish then or now.

What is your favourite drink? Alcoholic and non-alcoholic.

Alcoholic — Guinness, Wadworth 6X, Irish Whiskey, Scotch Whisky and red wine. Nonalcoholic — coffee.

Marmite: yes or no?

Marmite has got to be a no.

What is your guilty pleasure when it comes to food... something you know you shouldn’t eat, but do anyway?

My guilty pleasure is cheese, particularly Stilton, but I like a good selection.

You are on your own at home watching a film. What is you snack of choice?

Snack food, crisps, dry-roasted peanuts and Mini Cheddars.

You’re eating a bacon sandwich...

ketchup, brown sauce or nothing at all?

Brown sauce is a must for a bacon butty