The question
What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?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.
When I hired two private detectives and got them to follow each other.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 April 2025 source ↗
The 60s at the University of California at Santa Barbara weren’t bad.
Can't pick and choose, it's bad luck.
As I get older, I get happier.
When my mother was alive. She passed away 14 years ago.
Oh, most days. I can watch a political programme and think, “That sounds a really good point.” Then someone will argue the opposite and I’ll think, “Yeah, he’s got a point as well.” I am constantly sitting on a fence.
Not being able to laugh at themselves.
Healthier food from motorway service stations – I am always going through them late at night and it’s all rubbish.
What I studied at college – A-level economics.
Ambulances – I live near a hospital.
A book of passwords for all the electrical stuff in the house.
Keeley Hawes, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Marina Diamandis, Irvine Welsh, Douglas Booth, Julia Donaldson
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