The question
What accomplishment matters most to you?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Verbatim recurring item in The Guardian Q&A; two fully readable publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
That I am still creative.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 April 2024 source ↗
Football player of the year 4th XI 2002.
Raising awareness of ethical and environmental issues in the clothing industry. I think I was the original whistleblower within fashion.
Getting an A for my English A-level. I’m dyslexic; it was never detected and I was written off as scatty and lazy. This proved everyone wrong, including me.
I haven’t achieved anything of note yet.
Working in McDonald’s when I was 16. It was about 90p an hour. Because I was always late, they made me “trash walk” the length of Kentish Town high street and pick up the McDonald’s rubbish.
Bullying, flakiness, rudeness, lack of humility, being patronising and ungenerous.
Not getting into drama school when I was 17. In those days, the first thing people said was, “Where did you train?”
As somebody who loved people, was always curious, a loyal friend, a mother, wife, always positive and authentic.
Worry – I am a terrible worrier.
I like to think that my friends, my auntie and my mum are up there having a big party and that I could join them.
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