June Fenn, aged 91, talks about her abseil down the Spinnaker Tower in Portsmouth

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June Fenn, aged, 91, has abseiled down the Spinnaker Tower in Portsmouth for Dementia-Friendly Alton and Brambleton Hall Church in Farnham. So far June has raised more than £1,600 for her two good causes. Next year she fancies taking a drive around Thruxton racetrack or doing a skydive!

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00:00Hello I'm talking to June Fenn who's 91 years old and she's just abseiled down the

00:07Spinnaker Tower in Portsmouth for dementia friendly Alton. And Brambleton Hall Church,

00:13Church Hall rather. So how was the experience June? Have you done anything like this before?

00:19No. Are you scared of heights? Were you confident doing it? I had to be because

00:29I didn't know anything about it. Well I knew it was very high because as we approached it I thought

00:35oh it's high but no I sort of just did as I was told for change. So what was it like when you

00:46stepped out from safety down onto the tower itself? Were you nervous? It was better than I thought

00:53because everybody says when you go out backwards but I didn't go out backwards I went out frontwards

00:59and had to turn round and then step over something onto a ledge which was about three or four inches

01:05wide and then get the other leg over as well and then had to step back into it and then I was shown

01:12the ropes literally. So is it very windy? It sounded very windy up there. It was a bit windy but not

01:19very windy. Did that affect it or just the fact that you you're coming down under your own weight

01:26does make a difference? I think the wind cutting across probably made a bit of difference but in

01:33actual fact my feet kept slipping off the wall and I'd like to find out why because I was told to wear

01:40soft soles. You know I wore plimsels anyway with soft soles and they kept slipping off. I don't know

01:46if it was to do if it was my fault if it couldn't have been the wind I don't think or if it was to do with my

01:52weight whether I wasn't heavy enough to hold myself down. Possibly. I just don't know but anyway I

01:59eventually got down and that was all right. When I got to the bottom somebody was saying I've got you

02:05I've got you and I thought well I've got further to go yet I'm not down yet and of course I was I was

02:10actually down there. Were you able to enjoy the view while you're up there? No and I'd quite like to do

02:19it again to find out. They said turn around. When I first got out there and the girl showed me the

02:27thing and so I got a quick view of everything but then no because every time I tried to look round

02:34actually my neck doesn't go very far. I don't think that was an excuse but but I just all I could see

02:40was the wall so I didn't really catch anything I'm afraid. Maybe go up the tower just as a spectator

02:49next time. Yes yes. Have a good look round. So is it something you'd like to do again or would you

02:54like to try something else a bit of interesting? I'd quite like to do it again but then I'd rather do

03:00something different for next year perhaps and people are suggesting all sorts of things and I said well I

03:05might not be here but they said you will so so I thought I'd quite like to drive around Thruxton

03:12or something like that perhaps. That would be fantastic. And then some people are saying about

03:16bungee jumping I said no certainly not but I might think about skydiving because several people have

03:24suggested that so who knows.

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