I used to have a silk dressing gown an uncle bought in Japan and when I came downstairs in it my dad used to call me Davinia. There was never embarrassment about that kind of thing. My sister used to dress me up a lot. She thought I was a little doll.
I know my dad is a big Internet freak and he's been known to be a Wikileaker.
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My dad has sometimes felt that I grew up a little lacking in sufficient eccentricity – in the sense that I'm willing to live as an adult in a house with walls that are parallel to each other that sort of thing.