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maltatoday | SUNDAY • 31 OCTOBER 2021 12 ALMANAC My essentials MARK GRENSIDE 64 Author, Entrepreneur, Producer I moved from Lloyds of London specialising in Kidnap and Ransom Insurance to working for Jim Henson and The Muppets to producing films and TV miniseries. I bought and sold a network (Hallmark Channel) and invested in businesses from farming to digital. I wrote a book, indulge in cooking, travelling and classic cars! My blog www.andanotherthing.com is read in 40 countries. 1 2 4 5 1. Books 3 2. Film/TV 3. Internet 4. Music 5. Place CRUELLA. By far the best Disney film in years. Ex- cellent script and storyline with breathtaking art direc- tion. The scene that sticks in the mind is Cruella (Emma Stone) driving away after sabotaging an event for The Baroness (Emma Thomp- son) in a Ford Transit van with sumptuous dress mate- rial flowing out of the back like a river. For TV, Succes- sion. Brilliant cast and in- ter-family betrayals on an industrial scale. I follow themes. Cars, cook- ing, and world and local events. I am not influenced by others but certainly follow the well-informed and the funny. EVERY day this changes! Music so reflects your mood that one artist one day may not be suitable the next! I have mixed compilations from Spotify for Sonos and iPhone and in my car, USB toggles with 2,000 tracks each. So your mood of the moment is the music. Don't ever stick to one genre! I have been incredibly lucky to have visited nearly 120 coun- tries. It's very difficult to pick one. As a favourite holiday destination, it's either Halong Bay in Vietnam or Arrow- town in New Zealand. As a place I love to revisit it has to be Cernobbio on Lake Como or Carmel in California and for the future Antarctica, Tas- mania and Patagonia! 'ELON Musk' by Ashlee Vance. People like Musk, Branson, Jobs, and Zuckerberg fascinate me. When did they decide to keep on going despite amass- ing vast fortunes? I'm sure that when they were in short pants if you said they would be bil- lionaires at 30 they would have said, "Great. I can party the rest of my life." I doubt Musk (like Jobs) is an easy person to have around. However, I would love to have him to dinner. As that is never going to hap- pen reading this is the closest thing!