The New Granny's Survival Guide

Oh good; so we get to share the royalties !

Yes, I feel rather proud.

OH MY GOD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hope it's been well vetted. #untolddamage

A whole book ???!!!

From stuff on here.

I'll bet Geraldine wrote it.

or Janet Ellis

(That little girl off of Blue Peter)

"the modern gran is worlds away from the little old biddy stereotype."

I'm not.

Everything you need to know to be the best gran ....purleezze - nothing about our political/ religious spats ?

Bluebell, perhaps we could write the unauthorised version

The problem is, for every situation Gransnetters have been successful/unsuccessful doing completely opposite things, becoming involved and stepping right back, saying and not saying, indulging and not indulging.

The only advice I can think of is 'Play it by ear'

I like the little old biddy stereotype! There should be more of us!

I wonder if the book has gleaned information from the questions Geraldine puts up every so often, asking for opinions. Or whether all the threads have been gone over with a fine tooth comb in search of possible money making literary material.

I hope it is good for our image, fed up with the 'old' 'out of touch' type labels. Want it to show that we are financially savvy, IT capable, fit, healthy and ready to run the country!

I don't think any of my ramblings contributions will be of any help to anyone, unless of course they are looking for advice on coffee machines, mad cats or underwear malfunctions.

(Not to mention the recent wheelie bin incident)

The little old biddy stereotype was never that common anyway. DM, DMiL, DGMs certainly didn't fit the old Biddy stereotype. I have seen a photo of one GGM and heard about the other and they weren't old biddys either.