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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.
In my first bedsit when I went to art college in Leeds. It was a hideous basement, but I loved the freedom.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 November 2017 source ↗
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When my children were small and used to play together, be creative, and were just in that innocent bubble.
I remember going to my auntie Pauline’s house in winter when I was eight or nine and she made me a roast beef sandwich. I ate it and fell asleep next to a fire. I felt like a cat, fed and left to nap.
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The motorcycle crash, but also when a neon sign fell on my head in Soho in the 90s.
In the school holidays, I worked at a soft drinks factory in Southport.
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