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The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 December 2025 source ↗
The public mistakes I’ve made. Most recently, I tried to light an e-cigarette on an aeroplane and was told to put it out. I completely forgot I was on a plane. I’d had, like, three drinks, but it only takes three. I stopped as soon as I got off and I got straight back into my programme, because that’s what I do.
I would have skipped the time my daughter was nine to 13, when I was in a toxic relationship.
The floral waistcoat and shocking-pink shirt combo I wore on my 21st.
That moment in Bilbao in 2020, when I tried to cross the street and did a pirouette and suffered a dreadful break in my right leg, which means now I have 10 screws and a band in it.
Six months ago, I decided to move house. I got a skip, cleared everything out and then thought: “Why am I doing this?” So I remained, and I’m glad I did.
Time blindness.
Optimistic, nurturing, enquiring.
To have made people healthier and happier.
That they were loved.
A garden chair from the Chelsea flower show. It was almost the price of a small crappy car.
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