Joan Wild on turning 100 years old and finding a hobby | Newcastle Herald | August 7, 2024 - video Dailymotion

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00:00Excellent. I've got a... that's the next one I'm going to do. It's a magazine cover.

00:06Well, I'll take it down to my friend. Yeah. And he puts it off for me and then he puts it on this

00:12so that I can put it onto here. Ah, I see. Yeah. That one will fit on that canvas. Yeah.

00:24That's what I like to do because it gives me something to do.

00:28And then these portraits that you've got along the wall here, these...

00:33They're mostly drawings. They're black and white pencil, crayons,

00:41and some other stuff I used to do. Yeah. And you were saying it's important to have a hobby. It's

00:48important to have something to do and, you know, it's important to have something to do. You must

00:52do something. Yeah. To sit around, it's the worst thing you could do. That's why so many men,

00:57when they retire, find they go downhill. See, they've got nothing to do. Yeah. They've worked

01:02all their life and then they suddenly got nothing. So, you need a hobby. You need a hobby.

01:08Keeps the old brain cells. Yes, yes.