Nicholas Parsons: When were you happiest?

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.

Recorded Nicholas Parsons said elsewhere, not written here

When my children Suzy and Justin were small: I loved watching them grow up, helping and encouraging them.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 August 2015 source ↗

Others on this question

Ethan Hawke Actor, director and novelist

Now. It would be corny if I say why.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 April 2015 source ↗

Shaznay Lewis English singer

When my children were small and used to play together, be creative, and were just in that innocent bubble.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 June 2024 source ↗

Living in London in the late 60s—setting my hair with beer cans and shopping for shoes in Knightsbridge.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2010 source ↗

Cerys Matthews Welsh singer-songwriter

Now, by far. Old enough to know time’s short, young enough to use it.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 July 2016 source ↗

If there was a miracle pill that helped you to feel physically the same as you are mentally.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 August 2015 source ↗

My wife says the Minute Waltz.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 August 2015 source ↗

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