Keeping active is one of the main secrets for a long life according to 100-year-old Annie Palmer. Sprightly Annie has just reached her century and said: “I feel the same now as I did when I was 90.”
She added: “But when you reach 100 you start going backwards with your birthdays and that is what I’m going to do.”
Annie, who lives at Keith Leonard House in Soham, a Hereward Extra Care scheme, celebrated with a party with other residents and sipped a glass of celebratory sherry.
Annie, whose husband Charles died in 1984, has four children, 12 grandchildren, eight great grandchildren and four great great grandchildren. She is still very active and keeps busy by knitting socks for her family and for a charity that sends them to children in Africa.