Five to 10, when I was just playing out and I didn’t realise I was a girl. Before my boobs came in, basically.
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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.
When I changed the toner cartridge in my printer all on my own – that was a day of pure euphoria.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 August 2025 source ↗
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I have become progressively happier as I’ve got older. It’s to do with not striving as much.
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I don’t tend to rank happy times.
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I am always happiest when I am making my art.
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View profile →Working in a bottle factory, which lasted one day, and the Radio 1 breakfast show.
Nothing. I survived a cancer scare at 60, so I am just overjoyed to be here.
A drummer in a famous band or an astronaut.
Having three great daughters, having been on the radio for nearly 50 years and not being dead.
This was said about me in a Radio 1 focus group: “I don’t pay my licence fee to hear scummy northerners.”
A sense of what’s right, a few quid and some nice paintings.
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