Best seat in the house

I am from New Zealand and this little stool was used by my grandparents when they milked the cows. They always called it ‘creepy’ but never knew how it got that name. When I visited Edinburgh, Scotland, I went to the John Knox House for a tour. There was a ‘creepy’ just like mine by the fireplace, and the guide there told me whoever sat on it would ‘creep’ closer to the embers of the fire as they got low (in those days, most people’s windows had no glass). I can’t believe my stool is exactly the...