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8op

Do you Have a lot of social support.

5yq

Yes, I do. Yeah. Yeah. Well, even more so now now that the children have press gang me into Facebook and WhatsApp. Wow. I mean, it's just, it's just full on around the world now, you know?

0id

You international? Yes, yes. Yes. And I believe that you are an Airbnb host.

1irq

Yes I do. Yeah. So the world comes to me that way. Excellent.

0id

Do you enjoy that?

5yq

And then I'm Facebook friends when they go home apparently in China and Brazil and Rome, and invitations to visit.

0id

And you said you've got grandchildren and great grandchildren. Do you think that intergenerational contact is important?

11orq

Very important.

10od

Why?

1irq

Because you when you bring up children, you haven't time to see the world through their eyes. Or even really listen to them because you're too busy and preoccupied, but then grandchildren come along and more importantly now great grandchildren and seeing the world fresh through these new eyes is just it's quite mind blowing actually. So I've learned a lot. In the old days, grandchildren used to learn the grandparents knee but nowadays it's the grandparents learning at the grandchildren's knees now definitely Oh, yes.

0id

Yes. And do you think it also benefits them to spend time with people of different different generations different ages?

11orq

Well, as I said they don't see it use age you see, yeah, which is very releasing. Because Well, it just is, you know, after the my generation the way I was brought up, to be seen and not heard and to sit in the parlor with a all these old people. And now, money going around flipping parks, you know, they adventure things and they're saying, Come on the slide with us and all this, you know, which I do. Which I do, I don't turn anything down. That's the secret.

10od

not turning things down. Yeah.

4crq

Just always say yes. Yes. Good philosophy, except drugs, try everything. Try everything once.

6cd

What's your view on nutrition and kind of, you know, having a healthy diet?

11orq

I think I think the younger generation stress on it too much, far too much. When when do you think that if my generation are living to be 100 and we were brought up with dripping sandwiches, maybe With marbling in blah, etc, etc, full cream milk, all the rest of it. Why get stressed out? You know, just eat everything in moderation and enjoy life for goodness sake.

10od

Yeah. I quite like that phiosophy How do you minimize the effects of stress? Do you have any, you know, did you have any techniques or if something stressful happens? Is there anything particular that you do?

5yq

gin and tonic Oh, okay. I've got a very good thing if I'm really cross with somebody, and I'd really like to speak my mind to them. I'm very good at writing letters. I don't send the letter to them. But I do write it down and get it out of my system. And I keep it in a drawer in case one day, I might need to plunk it down in front of them. But it's You know, it's off, it's out of my head. And if I need to go to the doctor about anything, I will write down what I want to say to him, because I don't believe they listen to you all the time, especially a woman, if it's a man, Doctor, but you know, whichever they think, Oh, god, it's her again, you know? So I think, put this down and smile at him. He's got to read it.

0id

I think you're in your 70s. Do you enjoy being in your 70s? What was your favorite period of you know, in life? If you can, if there's an answer to that?

5yq

No, there isn't. You should just enjoy every day as it comes and not get hung up about age. Yeah, because I'm surrounded by 90 year olds now. And honestly, they're like, nine years old. We have the biggest laughs and they do the silliest things and you know, we feel as if we've been set free from actual age You know, you're a mother set an example to the children, right? Oh, you're a daughter, you know?

0id

So do you think it makes a difference? kind of moving on from those responsibilities kind of times of life. So when you when you are looking after your children? Is that what you mean by you feel a sense of relief later?

11orq

Yes. Because you're not, no one's judging you. Except that you're hanging around too long. But apart from that, yeah, no, it's it's good. I mean, I was brought up by a Victorian father who was a bank manager. And it was always just remember who I am in this town. You know, they were somebody in those days. You're my children. And, and then I went to a convent grammar. Just remember who you are girls, your convent grammar school girl, you know, so it didn't leave much to send it It didn't leave much pressure to Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, there's all these pressures as you're going through life. So it's nice to be and my husband died in his 50s so I had to reinvent myself, which was scary. Very scary after being a wife and mother all those years but my goodness me,

0id

I think it was either earlier this year or last year you did something quite big for a stranger.

1irq

Oh, the kidney donation? Yes. In February.

4crq

This year. Yes. You donated a kidney to a stranger.

6cd

Yeah, gentlemen, I believe Yeah.

10od

Wow. How did you decide to do that? We'll find out about that. And then

5yq

I found out on Facebook, okay. Don't ask me what the heading was but I'm already like most people donated after death. You know everything. I mean, I'm leaving my body to leave medical school as well, which hasn't pleased one of my daughters, but there you go. How can we agree with you? You're still hanging around? She said. So. So yes, so some of them were for it. And some of them, some of them weren't

0id

and haven't going through the transplant the operation is quite a big thing to go through.

4crq

And I think all last year, I was doing tests, you know, everything from psychological tests to all the physical tests, and brain scans and everything scanned.

6cd

Yeah,

7ack

it was, it was better than 1000 mile service. And I thought, well, I'm doing this for the right reasons. I know that, but who knows, they might find something totally wrong with me. And that's the way I found out so it's a win win situation, I believe. Yeah. And you know that if they do accept you, and I was the oldest one that they've ever had this and it'll last 20 years. Apparently, a kidney can last 20 years. That Yeah, that was good. Yeah. So So win win

0id

I, I think I've asked most most things on my list that I wanted to talk about, is there anything that you think that I've missed that is worth covering in terms of the theme of living well for longer?

5yq

Well, I think if you can do something for somebody else for whatever reason, however tiny the comeback to yourself is, is just huge. But as long as you don't look for that comeback, but it just, it just is Yeah. And it also consolidates the reason why you're still alive that you know that you're not just taking up space on the planet. And that, you know, you should do something nice in January hopefully, tanden, Parrish Don't for Alzheimer's. So that's the plan we're animating

0id

right? To raise money for ALzheimer's without shame this tandem jump out of a player.

0id

Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Yeah, that should be good. not to take life so seriously right? Well, one You don't know how long you're here four and two nobody's that important to you know, the world you're not the center of the universe for goodness sake, you know, so just get on with things and it's like, I feel sorry with Facebook, you know, if they don't get enough likes, you know, it was ruin the day some people well, this is all false. It smoke and mirrors. One thing a friend did say to me that was very important and very proudly was saying that I now own my own house, you see? And she just laughed and she said, Do you think it really? night? Yes. You know? Oh, you taking it with you? Oh, yeah. She said if you don't own anything, she said it's smoke and mirrors all of it. Yeah, and it's true, isn't it? Yeah. So just laughing get over there.

0id

Thank you.

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