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.
Anxiety. Have I finished this? Will I make the deadline? Could I have done that better? Are the children OK? Is the husband OK? Is the dog OK? Did I leave the oven on?
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 September 2020 source ↗
The perimenopause.
I always think that my ceiling is going to collapse on me.
Most things really. I’m a night owl.
Material. I wake up in the middle of the night and write jokes.
I was a terrible secretary in a publishing company (clumsy, disorganised, hid letters behind the filing cabinet because I was supposed to have done something with them and I wasn’t sure what).
Thank You For The Music by Abba.
My children. My marriage. All those books.
Watching my children play together for hours when they were very young.
Warm and golden, and it smells delicious.
Dawn O'Porter, Ethan Hawke, Jack Whitehall, Kate Mosse, Reece Shearsmith, Kathy Lette
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