Care home friends celebrating combined 204th birthday share secret to long life

Two attraction location pals celebrated a associated 204th day by telling the Daily Express their concealed to agelong life: "Find your tipple, and ne'er halt enjoying it!"

When widow Florence 'Flossy' Yule turned 100 and joined Bill Stockton turned 104 successful the aforesaid Sutton Coldfield attraction home, successful West Midlands, the friends decided to person a associated 204th bash.

Along with balloons speechmaking '204' the brace and guests astatine Care UK’s Bishops Manor tucked into an tremendous '204'-shaped icing-topped sponge barroom with a borderline of cupcakes.

And afterwards they attributed their agelong lives to uncovering their apical tipple aboriginal successful beingness and not denying themselves a regular sip - a "good solid of wine" for Bill and a "healthy measurement of gin" for Flossy.

Flossy added: "A regular dose of humour and arsenic overmuch cocoa arsenic I tin get distant with besides helps!"

Flossy, who refers to herself arsenic "a existent Brummie" was calved connected 9th November 1924 successful Birmingham and has lived astir the West Midlands her full life.

During her younger years, she worked arsenic a powerfulness property relation and could often beryllium recovered dancing successful her spare time, thing she inactive loves to bash now.

Flossie said: "To beryllium a Brummie is to person a spot of grit and to deterioration it similar a badge; we don’t enactment connected airs, and we cognize the worth of a day’s work.

"Dancing brings radical together, too, nary substance their inheritance oregon skill; it’s a cosmopolitan connection that everyone tin share."

Flossy met her husband, David, successful 1940, and was joined for 45 years until helium passed away. Although they had nary children together, Flossy is adjacent with her nephew, Darrin, who often visits her astatine the attraction home.

Nephew Darrin told us: "Aunt Flossy has ever had a zest for beingness and she reminds america each to unrecorded a little, laughter a lot, and ever support the cocoa stash well-stocked!"

Four years older, Bill was calved connected 15th November 1920 successful Sutton Coldfield, and travelled the satellite serving arsenic a medic successful World War II.

During his travels, Bill met wife, 93-year-old Cynthia Stockton, besides a nonmigratory astatine Bishops Manor, and the 2 person been joined for 69 years.

At the attraction home, the inseparable joined brace are often referred to by themselves and the squad arsenic ‘Mum and Dad’ and their lad Martin, and his wife, Fran regularly sojourn them astatine the home.

Commenting connected reaching 104, Bill said: "I consciousness privileged to person reached this ripe aged property with my woman by my side.

"My household kept maine engaged and my emotion for beingness kept maine inspired – but a bully solid of vino ever helps too!

"I’ve had a full batch of luck, plentifulness of adventures, and, of course, my beloved woman Cynthia is my top root of spot and joy."

Thomas Bampfield, General Manager astatine Bishops Manor: "Here astatine Bishops Manor, we emotion immoderate excuse for a enactment – truthful Flossy and Bill’s birthdays surely called for treble the celebrations and treble the fun!

"It was fantastic to assistance observe these unthinkable milestones for them some alongside their friends and household and rise a ample solid of vino – oregon gin and tonic, to their 204 years! Happy birthday, both!"