Don Warrington: When were you happiest?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Don Warrington said elsewhere, not written here

When I lived with my grandmother in Trinidad, before I came to England to live with my mother in Newcastle at the age of seven.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 February 2022 source ↗

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Brooke Shields

On a beach, watching my girls do cartwheels, with a Goombay Smash with a floater on top.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2025 source ↗

Iris Apfel American interior designer and fashion icon

I try to be happy whenever I can. I don’t fret about what’s past and we don’t know if there will be a future, so I make as much as I can out of what’s here now.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 August 2018 source ↗

Julie Andrews English actress, singer and author

In London. When Blake [Edwards, her husband since 1969] made me laugh so much I wept. Blake says I slept with a smile.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2008 source ↗

Sally Bercow British public personality

When I hit 40. I made a lot of mistakes in my 20s and spent most of my 30s changing nappies.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 August 2011 source ↗