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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.
The last few years. There’s a beauty to getting to an age where you really don’t care about stuff that used to bother you.
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We’re in such a good place now as a family. It’s the same for my career. I say no to so many things; I never used to be able to.
In the mountains, climbing into beautiful places—anything that has to do with nature. I feel best in nature or near nature. And I was most happy, of course, when I was with my husband and we were in beautiful landscapes.
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Can’t remember.
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Kind, funny, moany – I do love a moan.
I’ve apologised to my son, Thomas, for being absent for quite a lot of his first few years, but, as a working mother and breadwinner, I kind of had to be. I like to think I’ve made up for it.
As the dark-haired bird from Bananarama.
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