By MICHAEL MORPURGO
Miya was fourteen, my eldest granddaughter and the apple of my eye. She was always popping in to cheer me up, bless her - she lives just round the corner. And she did cheer me up too, even if she did go on and on about
the joys of her wretched computer. The truth was that so long as she came to see me, I didn't mind what we did, or what she talked about. It would pass the time, and talking about computers made a welcome change from losing to her at chess - again.
The computer lessons did not start well. I just could not get my head around it all. Then, bit by bit, day by day, with Miya's help, I began to make some sense of it; and once I'd made sense of it, I began to enjoy it - much to my surprise. A couple of weeks later Miya went off on her summer holidays, leaving me strict instructions as how to plug in and keep in touch with her by e-mail. She told me I must promise to practise every day on the computer. I promised, and I like to keep my promises.
Publisher: Random House
Age group: 8-13 yrs
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