Barbara Scully

I was 25.

Yeah.

So I was old.

You were an old unmarried mother.

I was an old unmarried mother.

Yes.

But she was she was just amazing.

And I mean, she said to me after my daughter was born and she had just set up her own company, she went back to work in the 70s, which was very unusual.

And that in the 70s, as a married woman with kids going back to work was seen as a slur on your husband.

You know, it was like, oh, you know, how could you do that?

Because that's making it out like that your husband can't support the family and that you have to go out to work because a woman wouldn't want to just go out to work for the sake of going out to work and doing something.

But anyway, so she was she would never consider herself a trailblazer, but she was a trailblazer.

And I remember her going back to work.

I was probably in maybe first year when she went back to work.

But as I went up through secondary school and I was, you know, older, I remember thinking, I'm so delighted my mother is out at work because she was mixing with younger women.

So nothing I did could shock her because she used to come home and say, oh, my God, Anne came in today.

And oh, but the stories she had about the weekend and whatever, you know.

So I felt that she was much more in tune than a lot of other women would have been of her age at that time.

She was a collaborator in a lot of my work.

She sounds fabulous.