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.
Ambulances – I live near a hospital.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 April 2025 source ↗
When I feel that I am unprepared. Before a show I always have nightmares that I go out on stage naked.
My impotence in the face of war.
Watching tennis.
Anything, because I’m a worrier. Also, if I’m working on a really exciting project, I can be awake like an excited child looking forward to going on holiday.
What I studied at college – A-level economics.
Always trying to turn things into a joke.
A book of passwords for all the electrical stuff in the house.
Three degrees: I paid my kids’ uni fees.
Not being able to laugh at themselves.
By people smiling or shaking their heads. I’ll even take rolling their eyes.
Ray Mears, Billy Crudup, David Hasselhoff, Bianca Jagger, Melanie Chisholm, Daniel Mays
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