Woman celebrates 100th birthday - and can still recite the alphabet backwards - video Dailymotion

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Video shows a woman who celebrated her 100th birthday - and can still recites the alphabet backwards.  Isa Grant celebrated her 100th birthday with family and friends on 20 January, receiving her card from King Charles at Anderson's Care Home in Elgin.  Isa, who is in remarkable health, shared her tips for a long life - citing kindness, honesty, and a teetotal lifestyle as the key to her health. She went on to prove that her tips have kept her mind sharp - by reciting the alphabet backwards with no mistakes.  She was born on January 20, 1924, at her parents’ home on Church Street in Lossiemouth.

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00:00♪♪

00:07-♪♪

00:13Try to help everybody I could.

00:15No.

00:17No, you don't tell us.

00:19No.

00:21Your sons will find you out.

00:23Hell, no.

00:26I never smoked.

00:28I didn't do anything else but work, work, work.

00:33It didn't bother me, really.

00:36I knew I had to do it.

00:38And I just did it.

00:41Well, I danced.

00:43And I walked.

00:45And I went to the pictures twice a week.

00:48We had a hotel.

00:50They displayed the bills.

00:52There were two complimentary tickets,

00:55the picture house and the playhouse.

00:57And nobody wanted them.

00:59So me and my pal took them.

01:02You want me to say that?

01:03I love it.

01:04Sad Boy Eggs and W.E.B.

01:06U.T.S. and R.E.P.

01:09O.N.M.

01:10L.K. Joy.

01:12I.H.G.

01:13Eggerty.

01:14And C.B.E.

01:16-♪♪

Woman celebrates 100th birthday - and can still recite the alphabet backwards

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