My Date with a great old Lady
05-06-2009, 07:08 AM
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My Date with a great old Lady
Maud is 102 & this is what she wanted as a birthday treat ' Tea at a posh place'. Maud had been a cook for 56 years & never got to see the posh bits.
We had 'High Tea' & she was soon the star attraction as others realised how old this grand old lady is, she said to me 'I now know what its like to be Famous'.
After tea we walked around the grounds & then back to the car, she didnt even get tired & loved it.
I asked her what she wanted to do next & she said I would like to visit the House I started as cook in 1921. I didnt know where it was but Maud did
, total recall of the route dispite not having been there for years she actually left their service in 1925.
Im in awe of this remarkable old lady her mind is totally intact & her recall alarming far better than my own recall of my childhood, can their be many of her age still running her own home without help she is truely remarkable.
TYLNEY HALL
WHERE MAUD STARTED WORK IN 1921
We had 'High Tea' & she was soon the star attraction as others realised how old this grand old lady is, she said to me 'I now know what its like to be Famous'.
After tea we walked around the grounds & then back to the car, she didnt even get tired & loved it.
I asked her what she wanted to do next & she said I would like to visit the House I started as cook in 1921. I didnt know where it was but Maud did
, total recall of the route dispite not having been there for years she actually left their service in 1925.Im in awe of this remarkable old lady her mind is totally intact & her recall alarming far better than my own recall of my childhood, can their be many of her age still running her own home without help she is truely remarkable.
TYLNEY HALL
WHERE MAUD STARTED WORK IN 1921
05-06-2009, 07:26 AM
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wow, thats a bloody decent age! i thought my great grandpa at 90, walking to and from the shops each morning and not living in a bungalow was good, but to be able to do that at 102! thats definately some going!
did you manage to get the secret out of her??
did you manage to get the secret out of her??
good on you Rod
05-06-2009, 08:25 AM
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was just like my great gran,in great mind and was doing everything for herself not dependant on any one..she sadly passed away just before xmas at the the age of 103.
love hearing storys like this,makes you wonder all that they have lived through all the changes they have seen..its mad.
love hearing storys like this,makes you wonder all that they have lived through all the changes they have seen..its mad.
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good man rod i took me grandad of 88 out to the pub with all my mates when i was 20, it was summertime and we built a beer can mountain and it had his stout cans in there lol he loved it
Amazing! I doubt if I live to 62 let a lone 102!! lol 
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