Nanny Ogg's Cookbook: a beautifully illustrated collection of recipes and reflections on life from one of the most famous witches from Sir Terry Pratchett’s bestselling Discworld series

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And if Nanny Ogg had been listening, she would have resolved as follows: that no maddened cackle from Black Aliss of infamous memory, no evil little giggle from some crazed vampyre whose morals were worse than his spelling, no side-splitting guffaw from the most inventive torturer, was quite so unnerving as a happy little chuckle from a Granny Weatherwax about to do what’s best. I love the recipes and the whole book is a great fun read, i think that every kitchen should have a copy. Nanny Ogg is far too wise and busy to carry a handbag; she keeps all she needs in her knickers, lifting her skirts to reveal a knickerleg, and extracting whatever is needed at the time.

Among Nanny's special talents are the ability to get along in any foreign language immediately by turning it into a pidgin that gets the message across, and a knack for producing a reasonable tune from any instrument she picks up.While intellectually she would concede that he was indeed a fat, cunning, evil-smelling multiple rapist, she nevertheless instinctively pictured him as the small fluffy kitten he had been decades before. Nanny Ogg quite liked cooking, provided there were other people around to do things like chop up the vegetables and wash the dishes afterwards. Nanny Ogg appeared on Royal Mail stamps in 2011, and again in 2023 for the fortieth anniversary of Discworld. She has as well innumerable grandchildren and great-grandchildren, but that's incidental; what makes her the Mother is her mentality.

In Pewsey's case, she felt that no one should be allowed to wander around in just a vest even if they were four years old.It is said that housework to Nanny is something that happens to other people; Nanny stopped doing housework once her eldest daughter was old enough to hold a duster. His acclaimed novels have sold more than 55 million copies (give or take a few million) and have been translated into 36 languages. On the other hand, King Verence had long ago given up any idea of stopping a witch doing something she wanted to do, so merely required Nanny Ogg to keep her still somewhere it wasn’t obvious. She has fifteen living children, innumerable grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and she likes to have all of her family around her in case of an emergency, such as she needs a cup of tea (which she takes with three lumps of sugar) or the floor washed.

A a Terry Pratchett creation "To Nanny Ogg he was merely a larger version of the little fluffy kitten he had once been.

While Nanny Ogg's bawdy sense of humor and sexually active past "would seem to contradict her association with the role of Mother", Nuttall points to this as evidence that Nanny "never truly fitted the role of Maiden" and that the character "represents female sexuality as powerful, natural, and something to be celebrated". Enough” wasn’t really a long enough word to describe the numerous little tasks any young woman marrying into the Ogg family found were expected of her. Two of her sons live in cottages on either side of her house, and when she needs either of them she only has to bang on the wall.