105-year-old former crane driver on the secret to a long life

  • 7 months ago
Elsie Middleton, from Sheffield, celebrated her 105th birthday on Saturday, February 17 at Roman Ridge care home, in Wincobank. This clip shows her talking to her daughter Jean Bolton.
Transcript
00:00 I'm going to ask you again, okay, what do you think the secret is to be you living so long?
00:05 What do you think the secret is? I don't know. You don't know? No. Well is it just random or is it healthy living?
00:15 Yeah. Yes, well you've always had healthy living haven't you? Yeah. You've always cooked,
00:26 cooked all your hot food from scratch haven't you? Yeah. Yeah, and my dad used to go have an
00:35 allotment didn't he? He used to eat homegrown vegetables and things like that. Yeah.
00:40 Yeah, and you didn't smoke did you? You didn't smoke? No. No.
00:53 No. That's right. Yeah, so you're very healthy.

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