The question
What thought won't let you sleep?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A long-running fixed question in The Guardian's weekly Q&A questionnaire.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Worry – I am a terrible worrier.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 April 2024 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.
I worry about doing everything right with my kids.
Worrying about my children.
Not much. Given that I’m up and active most mornings around 5am, I’ve had enough of everything by 9pm.
As somebody who loved people, was always curious, a loyal friend, a mother, wife, always positive and authentic.
Working in McDonald’s when I was 16. It was about 90p an hour. Because I was always late, they made me “trash walk” the length of Kentish Town high street and pick up the McDonald’s rubbish.
That I am still creative.
Being murdered – I listen to too many true-crime podcasts.
Losing my memory and not being able to work.
Not getting into drama school when I was 17. In those days, the first thing people said was, “Where did you train?”
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