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Eight years ago, I didn’t sleep for more than two hours a night and was very skinny. I went to a sleep clinic, and learned techniques to switch my mind off.
Nothing, really. But without little sleeping pills, I’d go crazy.
The BBC World Service followed by the dawn chorus.
All the things that seem very unimportant and manageable the next morning.
Funerals and, annoyingly, athletics medal ceremonies.
Wimbledon champion. I won the title frequently when playing against a pebbledash wall at home in Ireland.
Unqualified. Also, there’s that strange moment when you’re listening to lyrics on Radio 2 and you think, “Ooh, that’s so deep”.
When I turned 30, married and had a place in Brixton. My flailing twenties were over, though the flailing continues.
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