A house in west London.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Spirit of adventure and kindness.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 October 2024 source ↗
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View all 44 →I’d like them to inherit my optimism.
A sense of the world being full of possibility and it being in their hands to make it a better one.
A great education.
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View profile →Professional footballer for Tottenham, or train driver.
Failure, being caught out, making an idiot of myself.
I’ve had motorcycle accidents – I had one where I ended up in intensive care. But if you are on a frontline – which I have been – and people start shooting at you – which they have done – you put yourself in quite considerable danger. So: on a moving frontline in northern Afghanistan in 2001.
Arrogance and narcissism.
Children’s underwear department at Marks & Spencer, Oxford Circus. I was 16 years old, earning money in my summer holidays.
Funny, impatient, annoying.
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