1 October 2013

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AUTHOR Geraldine Durrant, who handles the Town Council’s PR, sees her latest children’s book published this month.

A “simply disgraceful tale, and largely autobiographical” Two Bad Grans tells how the two worst old women in the world realise the error of their ways when they become grannies.

They never darned stockings, they never baked pies,
their knitting was awful, they often told lies.
They were rude and revolting, said ‘piffle’ and ‘poo’
and refused to wash dishes, or mend and make do…

But handed their new babies, the Two Bad Grans reluctantly realise they will have to say goodbye to the bad old days.

“Because when you’re a granny you have to be GOOD, and start to behave as all good grannies should…”

“They say you should write about what you know, and I can honestly say that I have been a model of propriety since having grandmaternity thrust upon me,” said Geraldine, who has three grandchildren keeping her on the straight and narrow.

She is looking forward to the birth of a fourth shortly, and next year will see another new production when her previous three books tour the UK in a new musical adaptation of Pirate Gran on Stage by Scamp Theatre.

And she already has a sequel planned for the Two Bad Grans.

“Without giving away too much, let’s just say that the strain of being good proves rather too much for the Bad Grans, and they fall spectacularly off the wagon,” she laughed.