Ray Mears
British woodsman and TV presenter
The sound of nightingales, but it is the most lovely sound. If someone said it was an elf playing a flute, I would believe them.
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A long-running fixed question in The Guardian's weekly Q&A questionnaire.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The next morning. It rarely turns out as bad as I think it’s going to be.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 December 2017 source ↗
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Ian McEwan
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The BBC World Service followed by the dawn chorus.
Ruth Jones
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Lack of magnesium.
Jim Kerr
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Not much. Given that I’m up and active most mornings around 5am, I’ve had enough of everything by 9pm.
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Adolescent love feels like exquisite self-indulgence. Long-term love feels like a warm bath that needs a trickle of extra hot water every now and then.
An actor. Then I grew out of that and became one by default. Or sort of one: “Not really an actor”, said Michael Billington.
No songs, please. Don’t make a fuss.
Sorry, I’m British and middle class, so I’ve already apologised to virtually everybody I have ever met.
I’ll be at my happiest today, and probably my gloomiest at some point today, too.
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