We’re given our own will to live as we want and it’s up to us to live properly.” She hasn’t wasted time, she says. John Jeans-Winkworth, 100, was born in Bath and served in the army during the second world war. Her father worked at the Prince of Wales dry dock in Swansea after the first world war, painting numbers on the ships. She and Colin had two daughters, one of which she delivered herself, alone in an air-raid shelter, during the second world war. I’ve lived a happy life ...

Source: The Guardian August 27, 2017 13:52 UTC