Picnicking on the Downs with my family and dog – birds singing, sea sparkling, and mobile switched very firmly off.
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I’ll be at my happiest today, and probably my gloomiest at some point today, too.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 December 2017 source ↗
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