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.
At the altar all seven times.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2013 source ↗
When it’s just us as a family on our island hideaway in Wales.
March 1981 – preparing to open The Seafood Restaurant, Padstow, for a new season.
There are different flavours of happy, but I think my favourite is the quiet contentment when several generations of family are sitting together watching a crowd-pleaser like Harry Potter on the telly.
When my daughters were delivered safely.
Being there through thin and thin. That’s friendship treasured.
False humility.
Flirting with danger.
Anyone who can laugh at themselves.
Julie Delpy, Jenny Agutter, Lauren Laverne, Richard Feynman, Mel Brooks, Kevin Rowland
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