It was International Women’s Day a week ago on Monday March 7th – my laptop informed me – but I didn’t look into it and just assumed it was a feminist thing which wouldn’t really interest me. Of course inequality to women means quite different things to women of different cultures around the world, and now, having read the ActionAid article by Sarah Carson (B3 amazing women’s groups fighting to end violence), I feel guilty about dismissing the day so lightly.

On a lighter note, it appeared to me that last Saturday was another special day for women, just not ordinary women. The Tesco store at Newton Abbot where we take my mum shopping was full of Superwomen. One Clark (or clerk) used her Xray eyes to scan shopping whilst another filled the flower display in record speed. My mum Betty smiled with a certain confidence when she saw the upstart usurpers – you may remember that she is Supergran and also a super mum!