No, I'm a very lucky old lady at 83.
I've had a lovely life.
And I'm ready in the departure lounge... ready...
to go up there...
to die.
I just said that they must make sure that I am dead.
I said to Tania, 'Now listen here...'
'I don't want to lie in a hospital
with a pipe in my mouth.'
'You look to see who's looking,
and you pull those pipes out, and you run.'
I love life.
We're so fortunate to be alive, aren't we.
Lovely, day after day, every day is a challenge.
You never know what's going to happen,
or what's round the corner.
It's great to be alive.
And you must enjoy every minute of it.
I never get bored.
You must think positive.
Rule number 1: I never, ever, ever...
Do you understand what the word 'never ever' means?
...never get lonely.
Because it's up to you.
It's beyond my understanding, I don't understand it,
how people can get lonely.
I don't understand it.
You mustn't get lonely.
Make a cup of tea if you are lonely,
or knit.
It's like a pill to me, or a cigarette.
If I feel tight,
I just knit a few stitches or a few rows
and I calm down completely.
I love to knit.
Well now this year so far...
Here's electricity... there's my income...
there's my hair that I have done...
there are my jerseys...
there's my Honda, every time I put petrol in, I know...
municipality rates, electricity...
just ask me anything, I can tell you!
Jerseys!
I have knitted this year so far,
five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven...
twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen...
sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty...
twenty one...
I've knitted twenty five jerseys so far this year.
When a jersey is finished,
I walk where I know there is a busy outlet,
and I see somebody with a baby...
'Do you want a jersey?'
And then they'll say, 'But I haven't got money for it.'
And I say, no no no, you can have it.
They don't trust me sometimes.
You can have it, it's for you, it's a gift.
To be able to give something, like that,
a little jersey for their baby.
What you receive it just wonderful.
You don't receive it in money or anything.
Just the pleasure of seeing their faces.
You know, one year I was on the Shosholoza, on the train.
And the train was packed like a sardine can.
And I was sitting knitting.
And there was a lady, and she said 'What are you knitting?'
And I said 'I knit little jerseys and I give them away.'
And she said, 'What a wonderful idea.'
And she said, 'And wool?'.
And I said, 'It just arrives.'
And you know on that train, people brought me wool on that train.
I've never bought wool, it's just arrived.
I just love it, it's part of me.
As long as these two ugly hands,
I was born with these terrible nails.
Can you see them? I was born with them.
But at least they... look at them...
at least they can knit.
I love it, I love...
It's my life. If you were to take my knitting away from me,
I would be very heart sore.
And I thought, if ever I go to jail for something or other,
they won't let me knit because needles are dangerous.
So what am I going to do in jail, I don't know.
I so badly want to be remembered.
But I will be, I know... I will be.
Because somewhere, somewhere, tonight,
a child is going to sleep in my jacket.
(How will that make you feel?)
Great!
Great! Now that's what I like.
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