Caroline Lucas: What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?

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.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Caroline Lucas

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

Picnicking on the Downs with my family and dog – birds singing, sea sparkling, and mobile switched very firmly off.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 April 2024 source ↗

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Gemma Whelan English actress

When I was 15, I went to a rugby match at Twickenham with my dad and we went back to his friend Hugh’s house and Hugh made me a perfect cup of tea. I just remember feeling really happy because it was such a brilliant day and I loved being with my dad.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 January 2020 source ↗

Eli Roth American film director and screenwriter

When I'm on set, filming.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 October 2007 source ↗

Steve Pemberton British actor and comedian

Phoning my dad to tell him we’d won the Edinburgh Perrier award with The League Of Gentlemen in 1997.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 May 2019 source ↗

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Basketball player and author

My college years, when everything was possible and I felt physically invulnerable.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2020 source ↗