Gordon Flett
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1,089 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 15 Jun
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And that, of course, resonated with me as well in terms of that need to still be doing something that's useful and seen as useful where you can make a contribution.
And invariably, when we look at the people who are heading towards 100, like my
My wife's uncle, Derek, almost made it to 100.
He was 99 and three quarters.
If he wasn't stubborn, he would have made it to 100 because he didn't accept help a lot of the time.
Very self-reliant.
But he became the man of the community.
And this included throughout his 90s even.
So that he felt so useful, even though he lived by himself in the same house he was born in all of his life.
And I once asked him, I said, Derek, have you ever felt lonely?
And like, because you live by yourself and
his brothers had passed and he was cut me off.
He says, not for a second.
He goes, because I know right out that door, there's people down the street.
I can go drop in and they check in on me when they haven't seen me in a while.
And it makes an incredible difference.
And he told me a funny story.
He says, you know, he says my vitality in the nineties, he goes, I'm a volunteer for meals on wheels.
And he goes, I actually deliver to people who are younger than me because I'm better than them.
I said, it had to be that sense of,
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