The Heavenly Hotseat: Peter Armstrong, President, Mystic Seaport Museum

A regular feature for the Heavenly Hymnsheet, our monthly email newsletter. Each month we invite a guest to share their answers to ten questions on what makes them tick.

1. Where and when were you happiest?

I am at my happiest surrounded by mountains in a bar with a pint of Landlord and a good sausage.

2. What do you value most in other people?

The ability to not take themselves seriously.

3. What is the best piece of advice you have ever been given?

If it’s wet and it’s not yours, don’t touch it.

4. What did you dream of being when you were young?

Astronaut and there is still time, so don’t shatter it.

5. What was the last thing that made you laugh out loud?

Trump’s announcement to run again, and then I remembered that I live in the USA.

6. What keeps you awake at night?

Trump’s announcement to run again.

7. What is your favourite word?

Kerfuffle.

8. Which talent are you most envious of?

To play the piano at the drop of a hat.

9. Which famous painting would you choose to have in your home?

The Night Watch by Rembrandt. It is an amazing painting and so big that it assumes I will have a huge house.

10. What is your proudest moment?

Supposed to say the birth of my child, but to be honest, it was a bit yucky. So winning best museum in Britain.