Reece Shearsmith: When were you happiest?

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.

Recorded Reece Shearsmith said elsewhere, not written here

On my honeymoon in Lapland.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 August 2014 source ↗

Others on this question

Cerys Matthews Welsh singer-songwriter

Now, by far. Old enough to know time’s short, young enough to use it.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 July 2016 source ↗

Anna Friel English actress

Finding out I was pregnant when I’d been told it would be difficult to have children.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 August 2019 source ↗

Each time I gave birth.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 October 2010 source ↗

James McAvoy Scottish actor

When I was 15 or 16 - I slept really well then. Now I sleep on a bed of anxiety-tipped nails.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 April 2009 source ↗

Sometimes the overwhelming realisation that I will one day die; but mostly that ShortList man from the tube throwing stones at my window.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 August 2014 source ↗

Managing to find my wife and trapping her into marrying me.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 August 2014 source ↗

There's a man at the tube who hands out ShortList magazine. He has never given up trying to make me take one. I admire that.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 August 2014 source ↗

That I grew old.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 August 2014 source ↗

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