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Perimenopausal anxiety, the terrible feeling of impending doom, something awful happening to my children, writing deadlines. Apart from that, I’m quite chilled.
Snoring – and it's not me.
Not being at peace with myself, in spite of an ongoing lifetime effort to try to calm down and accept that, no matter what, I did the best I could.
It’s usually a slight feeling that, having got through the day, I didn’t get any time to do any writing or something creative – it was a lot of admin, exhaustion from that and rumination.
A Matisse and my Leica camera.
After Emmerdale, babysitting. I freaked out – I couldn’t believe people put me in charge of their children.
I cry when I am overtired.
I would take away fear.
The ability to switch off.
Something tongue-in-cheek: Rescue Me.
Angela Griffin, Omid Djalili, Simon Bird, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Roger Allam, John Waters
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