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.
Sleep apnoea and tinnitus.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 March 2024 source ↗
A new song just finished.
I would say something earnest like stopping the far right, but the truth is nothing keeps me awake at night.
The fact that I’m a vampire.
Poetry. I start getting into a float state, and write stanzas and couplets in the middle of the night.
As the dark-haired bird from Bananarama.
Always flying: we’ve had flights where the engine’s been on fire; where we’ve nose-dived.
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.
Kind, funny, moany – I do love a moan.
When a relationship I’ve been invested in stops working. And yet, here I am, happy as you like.
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.
Milton Jones, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Kathy Lette, Mellody Hobson, Mathew Horne, Zack Polanski
Search the directory for somebody in particular.