Clare Balding: When were you happiest?

Originally asked

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.

Recorded Clare Balding said elsewhere, not written here

This may sound nauseating, but I am a very happy person. I love my work, I love my life and I'm told by those who know/love me that it's a bit like living with Tigger. Bloody annoying, I should think.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 January 2011 source ↗

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Bernadine Evaristo English author and academic

When I met my husband, David, in 2006, on Dating Direct.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 July 2020 source ↗

Heston Blumenthal English chef

Professionally, it has to be when I got my third star.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 October 2011 source ↗

June Brown English actress and author

Childhood, up until the age of seven, when my sister died.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 December 2013 source ↗

Garrison Keillor

The night my daughter was born, New York, December 29, 1997. After she emerged and I held her in the palm of my hand, I walked around Manhattan in a stupor of happiness.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2009 source ↗