Restoration 10:10

You can take 10 years off your face with plastic surgery. You can slow down the aging process by using the right anti-aging products. But more than anything stay young by living young. No we’re not so naïve as to underestimate the problems people face in later years. As we get older we change both physically and psychologically. Loss of faculties, loss of energy and ill health, are some of the problems relating to old age. Lifting a kettle, opening a door, posting a letter can be a burden to a frail old pensioner. But thankfully we have some great role models to inspire us fearful youngsters and sulking middle-agers. Great-gran Elsie Owen, 84, is just one of many. Elsie, from Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk has raised £1,500 for cancer charities. Guess what she did to raise the cash? Knit some jumpers? No. Bake some cakes? No. Save some pennies in a jar? No. She raised the money by participating in a tandem parachute jump. Stop shaming me super-gran. I have trouble sitting on the big wheel at the fair ground. Elsie’s achievement impressed me further when I learned that she was a bowel cancer survivor. When asked what she thought about the parachute jump she replied "absolutely brilliant". I think you are too Elsie. As for the rest of us, let’s find a new thing to do every birthday.