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.
Facebook and the need to pee.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 July 2025 source ↗
Hormones – other than that, I sleep like a rock.
Boothby Graffoe calling up to pester me into promoting his new album, available on Amazon and iTunes.
Everything: I worry about whether the window frames need replacing, did I answer that email, how long my face is going to hold up, world peace, poverty…
Having got Aspects of Love back into the West End.
To my mother for disappointing her. Mummy wanted me to be a different sort of person from who I am, but one can’t change oneself.
Every time I got a lucrative voiceover, I bought a picture. The most expensive was by James Gillray.
When the media, en masse, reported my imminent demise.
Nothing at all.
To experience the utter powerlessness of locked-in syndrome.
Becoming doubly incontinent.
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