DW
When I lived with my grandmother in Trinidad, before I came to England to live with my mother in Newcastle at the age of seven.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 February 2022 source ↗
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.
Others on this question
View all 577 →When Brad and I got married. We had to struggle for it. It involved a nationwide speaking tour, lobbying Congress and campaigning intensely. We were the first couple to get our marriage licence in West Hollywood.
Tom Ellis
Welsh actor
On a caravan site on a farm in the Brecon Beacons when I was a kid. I have three sisters and every year we met family friends with kids the same age. We would go to the river and make rope swings and build dens. It was very Enid Blyton.
Nick Robinson
British political journalist
Toasting marshmallows on an open fire in Yosemite national park.
The first time I stood on top of the hill that I now live on, in 2007.
More from Don Warrington
View profile →I am not a great crier.
As someone who did his best.
Being nominated for an award and not winning – there have been a couple.
To my brother, because I wish I’d been there for him more.
A 1956 Selmer silver alto saxophone.
More on time & hindsight
- What lesson has mattered most in your life? 138 answers
- What counsel would you give your twenty-year-old self — and what should they ignore? 78 answers
- What worries you about getting older? 61 answers
- What counsel has proved most valuable to you? 28 answers
- If you could put a message on a giant billboard, what would it say and why? 25 answers
- What line from a parent, teacher, or mentor do you still repeat to yourself? 23 answers
Also answered this
Ashley Walters, Russell Tovey, Omid Djalili, Fay Ripley, Dan Stevens, Robson Green
Search the directory for somebody in particular.
Explore further
- All time & hindsight questions
- The The Q&A questionnaire — 25 questions from the same format
- Explore the archive — by field, age, era, and subject