The question
What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.
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Last Tuesday, lying on the couch, watching Schitt’s Creek with my husband. Happiness is the small, ordinary days, not the big, up-in-lights ones.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 January 2021 source ↗
When I hit 40. I made a lot of mistakes in my 20s and spent most of my 30s changing nappies.
When I won my first Oscar. Oh, wait – that was Amy Adams.
After the birth of both my children, although Manchester United winning the treble in 1999 came pretty close.
Immersed in a bowl of noodles, sat around my parents' dining room table with all my family. Bliss!
The people I worked with when I was in the final two years of my drinking.
Not having had children.
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