Nora Stainforth celebrates her 106th birthday at Callywhite care home

Nora Stainforth celebrates her 106th birthday at Callywhite care home, Dronfield

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00:00 Why do you think you've lived so long?

00:03 I've no idea, love. No idea.

00:06 Have you any idea?

00:09 Lots of people loving you, is that it?

00:11 Lots of people looking after you.

00:13 People loving... It is. It's people loving me.

00:17 And you had lots of birthday cakes as well, didn't you?

00:20 Yes, I did.

00:22 I only had one piece.

00:24 Did you?

00:25 I don't want any more.

00:27 I'll tell you what you can do at 106. You can still recite the poems that you wrote when you were 11.

00:34 What about the French exam poem?

00:36 Oh yes. Why, do you want to hear it?

00:39 Go on then.

00:41 I've finished questions one and two and found them not too hard to do.

00:48 But when it came to question three, I lost the darn things to me.

00:52 Oh dear, what is the French for?

00:55 I put down earth, then earth he said, for that is when the cow is dead.

01:00 I see a trunk car far away. I wish it was Saturday.

01:06 There were trunks in those days and they ran across my horizon.

01:13 Is that the one from school? Is that the one you wrote at school?

01:17 Yes.