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Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.
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The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 November 2013 source ↗
I’ve never been entirely happy, although for about 45 seconds after David Platt scored the winning goal against Belgium in the World Cup in 1990, I kind of blacked out with joy.
When my second child Bella was born in 2006. I missed my son Ben being born because I was racing, so seeing it for the first time was quite an experience.
Last summer, swimming in a waterfall in Cumbria with my daughters.
When my wife Lorraine and I got together in 1990. We were in a play at the Royal Exchange theatre in Manchester when we suddenly realised we were falling in love.
My husband is the kindest, funniest, most strange and wondrous person I know.
Not being born a boy.
Reasons To Be Cheerful, by Ian Dury.
Someone else to write my books.
In August, when my middle sister called to tell me her breast cancer had spread to her spine, pelvis and bones. It turned out not to be true.
Patti Smith, June Brown, Shirley MacLaine, Sue Townsend, Tim Rice, Daniel Clowes
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