That's Elsie Allcock that is. She is 105 years old. I stumbled across her story on the BBC News site where they sometimes squeeze in feel good human tales.to counterbalance all the usual gloom and doom that news services are obliged to pump out.
Being 105 is not in itself a huge deal any more. What is special about Elsie is that she was born in the very same house where she still resides in the former coal mining village of Huthwaite in Nottinghamshire. Her two-bedroomed house on Barker Street is pretty humble. It's the one right next to the white house...
So many people live restless lives of aspiration - wanting more than they have got. However, that was never the case with Elsie Allcock. She had everything she could ever want in her little house in a back street of a very ordinary post-industrial village in the middle of England. As she said in a different video. "Why should I move somewhere else? I have always been happy here."
Perhaps there's a lesson there for all of us.
I acquired the video below from the BBC News website and I have a feeling that it might not work for aliens living in foreign lands like America, Canada, Australia, Germany and The Isle of Man. If that turns out to be the case, let me know and I'll replace it with a different video about Elsie that aliens can access.
from Yorkshire Pudding https://ift.tt/oJnjYgV