Older and Bolder: My A-Z of surviving almost everything

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I listened, nodded and went to work for someone else who immediately gave me a job as a director and then as a producer and a presenter, which I did for 25 years. The veteran TV presenter told the Daily Mirror she’s on “new medications” but that “nobody knows if it’s working or not”. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged.

Over a career spanning five decades, journalist, presenter and campaigner Dame Esther Rantzen has appeared in more than 2,000 television programmes.I was bought up on a farm in Chester and even though my degree was in agriculture, I could see that was not going to be for me so I changed my tack completely and went on to instructing because I love motoring. Rantzen, 82, first announced her diagnosis in January, before revealing it had progressed to stage four in May this year. I was then out of work for six months and that was really important, because once that has happened to you, you never want it to happen again. GEOGRAPHY CAN CHANGE EVERYTHING I grew up in a village in Transylvania and only saw the Black Sea once when I was nine years old on a summer camp. The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report.

Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously.She was awarded a DBE in 2015 for her services to children and older people, through her pioneering work as founder of Childline and The Silver Line.

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Lotte began her writing career age 70 and has since written more than 20 children’s books, including the best-selling Lotte’s War.Other important lessons she’s learned over the years include prioritising spending time with your loved ones, health is the only thing that truly matters, and that naps are one of the “happy discoveries of growing older”. We may not all achieve what Dame Esther has, but here we can soak up her wisdom, laugh with her, learn from her, embrace the passing years and march boldly on.