A small daily sherry – advice for a long life from 103-year-old

But, Kay Jackson warns, she has paired that with eating sensibly and keeping active.
Mrs Jackson, who lives at Thatcham Court nursing home, celebrated her birthday with a party for family, friends and staff on Tuesday.
Born in 1910 in the village of Fernhill Heath, Worcestershire, she spent her childhood roaming the countryside with her brother and sister and friends getting up to all kinds of mischief.
When she was 10, the family moved to Worcester – not a move that met with Mrs Jackson’s approval, but she added that she soon settled into her new school and found new ways of making life interesting by bending the rules.
She left school at 14 to work in the post office in Bromyard.
While still living in Worcestershire, she met her husband-to-be Leonard, and the young couple settled in north Devon, taking possession of their newly-built house in September 1939 on the day that the Second World War broke out.
Mr Jackson’s work as a highway surveyor responsible for the roads of north Devon meant that he was not called up, but he was a key member of the local Air Raid Patrol.
Mr Jackson died in 2008, a few months after his 100th birthday, and Mrs Jackson decided to move to Berkshire to be near her daughter, Wendy Thomason.
Thatcham Court care assistant Lisa Dear said: “Staff adore Kay and describe her as a very loving, funny, witty, determined person with great charisma.”