A 102-year-old woman says the secret to a long life is drinking wine and avoiding men.
Dolly Burrows, from The Dell in Colchester recently celebrated her birthday and credited her long-life to spending time traveling, playing scrabble having a glass of red wine every night and “staying away from men”.
Granddaughter Susan, 53, said: “She didn’t stop traveling until she was 96. She plays Scrabble and cards every day and has a little glass of red wine every night. She says that helps.”
Susan added of the major surgery Dolly had last year: “When she’s in the hospital the staff are amazed and when they ask her how she does it she says ‘a glass of red wine and staying away from men’.
“Her holidays were her main passion and her 100th birthday is a special memory as she had family from Italy and America come to visit.
“She has traveled around all the Canary Islands and Spain.”
Dolly Burrows is not the only centurion to give odd advice on the fountain of youth. A 112-year-old woman claims the secret to a long life is smoking – after she’s puffed away on 30 cigarettes a day for the last 95 years.
Batuli Lamichhane was born in March 1903 in Nepal, took up the habit of chain smoking when she was 17.
According to a report by The Daily Mirror, she claims it’s her daily habit that has helped her outlive almost everyone else in her village – and her own children. She said: “I don’t really care how old I am. But I am old nonetheless. I have seen a lot of things change during my lifetime.”
