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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's long-running Q&A repeatedly asks this standing question, with minor tense variation.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 March 2023 source ↗
The failed attempt at a home perm on myself in the 80s. I wanted to look like Kelly McGillis in Top Gun.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 December 2020 source ↗
Selling double glazing.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 November 2016 source ↗
Potato-picking in my home town, Ballarat.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 December 2018 source ↗
Cockroach stamper at a dried-flower factory.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 March 2025 source ↗
A couple of years ago we moved to East Sussex – I had been living in London for 35 years – and couldn’t work out why I kept waking up and thinking, what’s that sound? It was actually silence.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 March 2023 source ↗
Going to pieces while meeting John Squire, the lead guitarist of the Stone Roses, backstage after a gig. I completely lost the ability to speak. I told him I had the same guitars as he’d just used on stage, and when he asked me which ones, the words completely went out of my head and there was a huge pause, and then his wife tapped his shoulder and he wandered off.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 March 2023 source ↗
Arrogance, bullying, meanness – just try to be kind, it’s not difficult.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 March 2023 source ↗
Live in the moment. Enjoy life because time cruelly speeds up as you get older and becomes scarily finite.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 March 2023 source ↗
Professionally, becoming a relative success in a job that I love; and personally, helping to raise two wonderful children.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 March 2023 source ↗
After the birth of both my children, although Manchester United winning the treble in 1999 came pretty close.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 March 2023 source ↗
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