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.
It’s my snoring that keeps Loreto awake!
The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 March 2025 source ↗
My little girl. I often get visits just for a cuddle.
I sleep very soundly.
Too much energy.
Anger at people's agenda to control others.
Everest the hard way in 1975: leading the expedition that succeeded where so many people had tried and failed. That was the most complex mountaineering challenge I ever faced. I spent hours at night in a little tent thinking about what the next problem would be and how to solve it.
I left the army and got a job with Unilever in Northern Ireland. They were very strict and you had to have a hat, and when you went into a shop you had to raise your hat to the shopkeeper and then sell your wares. I was selling margarine.
Resourceful, resilient and compassionate.
Whenever things seem absolutely terrible, to see that you’re alive and that’s all that matters.
Compassion, resourcefulness and resilience form a rounded good person. So that’s what I’d like to leave my children and grandchildren.
I was a huge daydreamer and imagined myself as a successful general leading his troops into battle.
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