Absolutely ages ago, the absolutely fabulous Aoife tagged me for a Six Random Facts meme, and I completely dropped the ball because I couldn’t even keep track of the six things I had to do before lunch. Better late than never, though, so here are mine:

• I have prehensile toes, meaning I can (and do!) pick things up with them. Oddly enough, in all my years of writing about sex and sexuality, it is this single fact that resulted in the strangest and most fervent fan mail. Moral of the story: absolutely everything is somebody’s kink.
• I am mostly indifferent to insects - no girlish spider screeching here - but I used to passionately hate woodlice. Unfortunately, we have a very damp garden and thus, woodlice. I now perpetuate a very satisfying daily holocaust on the dozen or so who creep in the back door and am no longer squicked out by them. I am however disturbingly addicted to this little smashing ritual, and my husband has begun to look at me a bit oddly.
• On the other hand, I actually really like slugs. I find them terribly impressive and sort of endearingly dinosaur like, and I especially love their little horns. Since at least two slugs a night end up in our back hall (eating dead woodlice) or on the bathroom sink, this is a good thing.
• I like films but I’m not a huge fan of cinemas. I have not actually been to a cinema since 2005. Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith merely confirmed my suspicion that cinema tickets are not the best way to spend a million quid.
• I am addicted to the smell of detergent. I have no idea why. I just love industrial perfumes. I have an unnatural fondness for Dove soap, and I use Dove deodorant, and if Dove made perfume, I’d probably wear that, too.
• I like my husband so much I married him twice.

Now, according to the rules, I’m supposed to sic this meme on six other people but so much time has gone by that I think I’ve pretty much blown that one out of the water, and I’m not a huge fan of obligating people to play. Instead, here’s a simple curiosity request: show everyone where the magic happens.

We’re about to (fingers crossed) buy and renovate a house, so for the first time ever I’ll have some scope to design my own working space. I’m very excited about this, and I’d like to see yours. Home office, co-working office, actual office: just take a photo of where the work gets done and post it somewhere. Clean, dirty, it doesn’t matter; I just want to see it.

Bernie Goldbach, Damien Mulley, Jackie Danicki, Martha Rotter, Maryrose Lyons, and YourNameHere, I’m looking at you.