Nigel showed me an interesting article published recently in a September issue of the New Scientist that I found fascinating and felt I should share with you.  As everyone knows, in the very distant past, the division of labour was simple: men hunted and women gathered; and it seems that even today, in our modern high-tech world, women are still the best gatherers. According to a new study by Max Krasnow and colleagues at the University of California, Santa Barbara, modern women are better at remembering the location of food such as fruit and vegetables in a market. For their experiment, the researchers led 86 adults to certain market stalls then back to a location in the centre of the market from where the stalls could not be seen. They were then asked to point to each stall’s location; women performed 27% better than men at locating the food.

 And how do we both do in a supermarket? Interestingly, Nigel always goes off to choose the meat while I delight in selecting our fruit and vegetables; our ancestors would be proud of us . . .