Granny is worried.
At the weekend she was amused and yet horrified to read in the Sunday papers that ten-year-old Zoe Pemberton had put her gran up for sale on the auction site, ebay.
Apparently the reason for Zoe taking her Gran's photo and putting her on ebay with no reserve price was summed up in the description she provided, "Annoying and moans a lot."
The auction was stopped after just three days (because ebay states they do not allow the listing of any human being on the site) but by then bids for Granny Goodhall had reached £20,000.
Now, as we sat listening to Gran relay this story to us in the dining room, IJ's eyes suddenly lit up. And as if she had just found the solution to all our problems,
"Mummy!" she said with huge excitement, "we could buy a car with that!"
"Good point, IJ," I said.
And indeed it is a very good point.
As Granny would object hugely to a photo of her on the Internet, this is the best I can do:
Item number: 001
Description: Kind and generous with a tendency to nag. Occasionally hard work.
Minimum bid: £13,715 (We want a Mini Cooper).
Cat not included.
