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.
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People are often traumatised by the sleeplessness in the first years of their children’s lives, but I was insanely happy to be married and have two children. The only dark cloud was how much we were loathed for having babies who slept through the night.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 April 2022 source ↗
I've never really been unhappy.
March 1981 – preparing to open The Seafood Restaurant, Padstow, for a new season.
Visiting my children at college. I don't stay long, because their lives are so busy - the way they should be.
The day my daughter, Clara, was born, and pretty much every day since.
My mother says I had a plan to be a farmer’s wife and a violinist, going to concerts at the Royal Albert Hall in my tractor.
Undiagnosed VIPoma in 2018.
In rehearsals. The play is very funny about mothers and daughters, but one of the gags hit a raw nerve.
All the things I ought to have done.
An electric car.
Pauline McLynn, Donny Osmond, Lesley Sharp, Richard Wilson, Sarah Silverman, Anna Paquin
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