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.
Stress, love, people not understanding me, me not understanding people.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 September 2023 source ↗
Mainly my devil dog.
Nothing – I’ve got some great tablets!
The children. As a mother you are constantly worrying whether you’ve done the right thing.
Wondering if I've turned the gas off.
Lack of confidence in speaking to the opposite sex.
There’s a tweet somewhere saying, “If you like Africa so much, why don’t you go back there.” It was because I dedicated one of my dances to my three mothers – Mother Africa, Mother Nature and my mother.
Hurtful, hard, like concrete but also the soft, silky, smooth, cool pillow that you lay your head on. It’s like birds singing in the morning with the aurora going over your head at night. That’s love for me.
Finding a partner.
That life is tough and unfair; that life is beautiful.
Being about nine metres away from a polar bear. In northern Canada, a young polar bear was very intrigued by our food. I was flying the drone at the time and the polar bear looked up and started paying attention, so then we flew the drone further away and he followed it while we got into our vehicles.
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