Her cutty-sark, o' Paisley harn That while a lassie she had worn, In longitude tho' sorely scanty, It was her best, and she was vauntie,- Ah! little ken'd thy reverend grannie, That sark she coft for he wee Nannie, Wi' twa pund Scots, ('twas a' her riches), Wad ever grac'd a dance of witches!
But by the time she died, she was perhaps second only to the Queen as the world's best-known grannie or great-grannie.
"Everyone and their grannie will be out.
Then come a randy nurse on the pull in the hospital waiting room ("Oh, I've got a mind like a sieve - your mother passed away"), a sozzled bride on her wedding day, and a foul-mouthed, unashamed grannie.
Jenny Jules plays the disempowered heroine with the right spiky anger, and there is lively support from Kobna Holdbrook-Smith as the good and bad guy in her life, from Sharon Duncas-Brewster astylishlish buppie, and from Carmen Munroe as the aberrant grannie crying "I need smack and I need it now".
For one thing Villas-Boas is brilliantly fluent in English, in part a legacy of his Lancashire grannie.
My grannie said the ones that were not good, Oh do not go there he is a cheat if his potatos are old and how his carrots are just soft".
Kieron no doubt performed many other tasks for his grannie.
He just starts him up and lets him talk: "I always went the messages for my grannie and would always go them, so if it was a train to take, I would still go them.
In his review of "Kieron Smith, Boy" (Nov. 16), Marcel Theroux misinterprets the statement "I always went the messages for my grannie".
