The name Gytha was inspired by Gytha North, a British fantasy fan and acquaintance of Terry's, whose love of music, and involvement in the filk music scene was probably the inspiration for Nanny's penchant for singing.

Nuttall observes that, while some of the Discworld witch characters progress through these roles, Nanny is associated "purely with the role of the Mother" [3] In addition to being the matriarch of a large family, Nanny also fulfills a Mother role in the community; "she is a talented midwife, and takes a maternal attitude to the majority of people she meets". While she had numerous sexual partners as an unmarried woman and later as a widow, she claims that she was never unfaithful to any of her husbands while married.Nanny Ogg's Cookbook is a book of recipes and wisdom of the Discworld character Nanny Ogg by Terry Pratchett, Stephen Briggs and Tina Hannan, and illustrated by Paul Kidby. I love the recipes and the whole book is a great fun read, i think that every kitchen should have a copy.

His first novel, a humorous fantasy entitled The Carpet People, appeared in 1971 from the publisher Colin Smythe.She's had 5 husbands and been married to three of them and has fifteen children who survived their early childhood (one was born some ten years after the death of her last husband). Nanny Ogg quite liked cooking, provided there were other people around to do things like chop up the vegetables and wash the dishes afterwards. Steel yourselves - Nanny Ogg is passing on some of her most interesting recipes and her most refined wisdom. He was awarded a knighthood for services to literature in 2009, although he always wryly maintained that his greatest service to literature was to avoid writing any . Nanny Ogg has been married three times, and is the mother of fifteen children and has many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Sometimes you had to trust to experience and intuition and general awareness and take a running jump. Nanny Ogg , one of Discworld's most famous witches, is passing on some of her huge collection of tasty and above all interesting recipes . No amount of charms could persuade a wart to take root on her handsome if slightly equine features, and vast intakes of sugar only served to give her boundless energy. As described in Maskerade, people, after knowing her for fifteen minutes, feel like they have known her all of their lives.

His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal. 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. Nanny Ogg found herself embarrassed even to think about this, and this was unusual because embarrassment normally came as naturally to Nanny as altruism comes to a cat.