"Opposite my house in West Sussex is a green area that had sunk and needed making safe," she explained. "One of my very nice neighbours told the developers, 'You've got to do something because there is an old lady that walks her dog there.'"I know I'm 86," she continued. "But I work full-time, I'm up at 7:30am and get home at 11pm.""Why do I have to be labelled an old lady? "It annoys me because they're not seeing the person I am - just an old person."I'd make that a crime!"The hardy pensioner endured a tough childhood in wartime Yorkshire, during an era when people "just got on with life" - and she extends the same attitude to her age. "Growing up in the war, I learned how people just got on with [things] despite food rationing, bombs.
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