The Guardian's Women's page turned her a 14-year-old feminist, and three decades on she is still a regular reader of the paper
I grew up in Lancashire and remember reading the Women's page in front of the fire when I got home from school – it was very influential and turned me into a 14-year-old feminist. My grandparents used to get the Guardian delivered and I would do the quick crossword with my grandma in the back room of her grocer's shop. I didn't know any other family who read it in the 1970s, but now most of my friends do. I live in Morpeth, Northumberland, and work as a teacher trainer in an FE college in the north-east. I'm 47, married, and I've got teenage children. I used to do quite a lot of fell races, but now I tend to only run in Northumberland with my friend and our dogs.
On Saturdays I like the main paper, the magazine, the Review – and the Money section after I made myself start reading it when I was about 40 because I'd always ignored pensions, mortgages and all that up until then. Now I love it. I really like the artist who does linocuts in the Review, and the ordinary people sections such as the Other lives obituaries and Weekender in the magazine. George Monbiot is a polemicist, but I admire his strong political stance. I don't like Tim Dowling's column. Why are he and his wife still married?