The question
What thought won't let you sleep?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A long-running fixed question in The Guardian's weekly Q&A questionnaire.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
My husband snoring.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 April 2025 source ↗
Worrying about my children.
My son. He is a teenager.
Did I behave in the right way?
Lack of magnesium.
Nineteen Eighty-Four. I always meant to read it before 1984, and once 1984 had passed I didn’t see the point.
I fell asleep in a room that had an oil heater and it filled with carbon monoxide and, if it hadn’t been for my husband, Terry, I would have died.
I was called the N-word in Romford, by someone stepping off a train as I was getting on.
An umbilical cord.
It was a small gig and I was doing Three Minute Hero, which has a long, held note at the end, and I fell off the stage.
Giving barium enemas. I used to be a radiographer in Coventry.
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