Have you ever had a favourite pair of socks? What was it about them that made them special – the colour, the texture, the memories attached?
My current favourite socks are my favourites because I made them myself. Admittedly, they give the impression of badly burned legs, but the point stands: it was I who dunnit.
The First Book
What’s the first book you remember reading?
I still remember the day I started reading: I took the book off the nice lady at the kindy mid-read and told her that I could read it myself. The page, as I recall, was a billowy dark grey, a picture of a storm, perhaps. What the book was, alas, I no longer remember.
What about you?
The Origin of Squid
Do you know where the word squid comes from?
Because if you do, you’re the first. Dictionaries describe the etymology of the word as “obscure” and “unknown”. It just popped up in 1613 (shortly after the King James edition of the Bible came out) and stuck around. Before then, it seems they were lumped in with their cousins the cuttlefish – because one ten-tentacled sea-beastie is much like another.