Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A fixed Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 October 2025 source ↗
I feel I have made amends, so I don’t feel that anyone is owed an apology but, if they read this and they think they are, do drop me a line.
I pulled a chair away from a girl who was just about to sit down on our second day of primary school. She farted when she hit the floor and everyone laughed.
My coach, Scott Hann, for all the stress before competitions.
When I was in my 20s, I had an uncle who took his own life. I would like a second chance to say: “Hang in there.” My parents were living abroad, and me and my sister were just too young to notice the flags.
I can be horribly smug and conceited, and yet always in the back of my mind is the thought that things could go terribly wrong at any moment.
Middle-class wanker.
I’ve shat myself in public three times. It’s never quite as bad as you fear.
Aggression. Anger. Rudeness. Intolerance. Lack of understanding. Pretty much your average day on X.
I’m a classic remoaner.
Three mature palm trees. We restored a property in Italy that had been derelict and I needed to make it look established as quickly as I could.
Cat Deeley, Richard Eyre, Griff Rhys Jones, Shirley Manson, Sara Pascoe, Minnie Driver
Search the directory for somebody in particular.