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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When I found out that I was having my baby. They told me I was having a little girl and I named it Elizabeth. Then, when the baby was born it was my beautiful boy, Mark.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 June 2018 source ↗
When I was under contract to Universal Pictures in 1959, just before I got my role on Riverboat.
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.
Eating Marmite on toast just after the birth of my daughter in 2004.
In the first lockdown. Obviously, there was terrible grief and sadness and fear around, but there was also this reclaiming for nature. I was constantly at my allotment with the big kids and my husband.
We’ve Only Just Begun by The Carpenters.
I would be much more available for my brother when he was not well and try to understand more about mental health, which I didn’t know anything about at the time.
Getting the job on Strictly at the age of 56.
In my dreams: I’ll feel as if I am falling towards a white light and then suddenly I wake up.
People close to me throwing me under a bus for a crust.
Dancing was in my bones from when I started ballet at two.
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