The question
What one change would most improve the quality of your daily life?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Verbatim recurring item in The Guardian Q&A; two fully readable publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
An extra day in the week when no one can contact you.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 December 2024 source ↗
An in-house chef.
If emergency train announcements were written up on the information screen. The times I ended up at the wrong destination could easily have been avoided.
The metabolism I had in my 20s.
Finding a partner.
A Vivienne Westwood & Burberry two-piece suit I bought for a press night. At the time I was: “Yeah, of course I’m going to be a 30-inch waist for the rest of my life.” Now the trousers don’t fit.
Patience is not my forte.
Racial and homophobic slurs – the F- and N-words. When I moved to London, people screamed the F-word from their cars, and that stings.
I was a secret shopper and had to do a lot of bookies – Coral and William Hill – all around London. For 18-year-old me looking all fab it was quite scary going in and saying: “Hiya, can I put £4 on No 7 horse, please?” But you got to keep the money when you won.
Dying: I’m too iconic to go.
Falling flat on my face in Billy Elliot on Boxing Day when I was 14. I fell smack bang at the end of my number. I was mortified.
Adam Clayton, Marc Quinn, Julie Andrews, Emma Barnett, Una Stubbs, David Baddiel
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