Eastbourne Herald-15-07-24-Meet Roy Payton - Octagenarian Inspiration - video Dailymotion

'Roller' Roy Payton gives us a brief of who he is, and of his inspirational book 'What If...'

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00:00Hello, my name is Roy Payton and I'm really, really old. I'm nearly 90 years of age and

00:10quite frankly I've turned out to be a very happy old man and I'm really pleased with my life

00:18and I've had lots of ups and downs and a lot of my mates I played rugby with they've all passed on

00:26now but I've been preserved and I thought well if I've been preserved for what reason and during

00:36lockdown I was in a care home for four years and I thought well I need to do something with my life

00:45and I decided to walk a thousand miles and raise funds for dementia. Now a thousand miles took me

00:53a year and whilst I was walking I also write poetry and I thought well I'm going to put all

01:01my poetry into a book and I did and it's called Poetry in Motion and as it says every poem tells

01:09a story and they do and that is for sale but all proceeds go to dementia which my mother, wife

01:21and sister all died from. Because of what I do for charity, I roller skate or used to, I've raised

01:31funds for children's charities and I appear on the buses in Brighton so for an old man that was

01:39quite an achievement. Furthermore as time went by having felt that I'd been preserved for something

01:49I thought I'm going to write a book and that is the book What If and it's all about my life

01:57and I've written it for the benefit of you younger people to learn about life from my experiences

02:08and the coincidences in it are absolutely incredible. You won't believe it until you read it

02:16so I strongly urge you to go into Amazon those are the details and if you go into Amazon on the QR

02:26code you can order the book and it will be with you next day but please remember proceeds go to

02:34dementia and not to me. I don't want to make any money out of it, it is for your benefit you young

02:42people anybody younger than 90 years of age it's just what you want. Thank you for listening, goodbye.

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