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.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 July 2026 source ↗
With my late wife, Siân Busby, and our boys, Max and Simon, on assorted Welsh and English beaches, in sunshine and rain – especially when there was a Punch and Judy show on the prom.
Whenever it was, I didn't realise it fully.
On my wedding day.
Whenever it was, it’s likely I was actually miserable, destitute and alone.
“You don’t stand a chance of succeeding as a writer in this country. The demographics are against you.” They were wrong. The only demographic that counts is the human heart.
Looking after the flowerbed on my windowsill.
Composer, pirate, scientist, philosopher.
Worrying at things.
The wisdom to become who they are in the truth of their spirit.
A Dalí painting.
Daniel Clowes, Robert Carlyle, Björk Guðmundsdóttir, Zoë Wanamaker, Sarah Parish, Niamh Cusack
Search the directory for somebody in particular.