The question
How would you describe yourself in three words?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's weekly The Q&A repeatedly uses this exact standing prompt.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Needing order always.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 June 2026 source ↗
Very silly boy.
Loving, creative, demanding.
Glass half full.
Hardworking, authentic and honest.
Recently, as people began to understand what I am trying to do in my painting.
Keep working, improving your step.
The boozing. I started on rum as a child.
In the 1950s I went to the Chelsea Arts Club’s New Year’s Eve ball at the Royal Albert Hall dressed as a Christmas pudding, with swimming trunks under my costume and holly in my hair.
A detective. Or a writer. Or a poet.
A fellow artist called me a flaneur!
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