There's no place like Saint Helena.
This island, it just sits in paradise I have to say.
This is Saint Helena, we call ourselves 'Saints'.
This is a good place, good people.
Everybody you meet or if you pass somebody if you're driving
they're always waving their hands.
We do find ourselves being friendly with people.
We speak to anybody we see.
We are well blessed being here.
This is one thing why I love my own island actually.
If the good Lord spares me
near the end of next month, May, I'll be 94.
I sometimes think of my working days, how I used to work,
and I wonder to myself how I could have lingered so long.
Used to go up and down hills, carrying loads on my back,
that's why my fingers are crooked like they are.
We were poor and had to work very hard but
people were happier those days than what
people seem to be nowadays.
I don't know why that is.
But as for myself you know
I just take life as it comes.
That's the way I feel about it.
The easiest way to do this would be to use the electric thing.
But I'm somehow so used to doing it this way.
Today things are much more convenient...
it gives us a bit more time actually, but the thing is...
it gives us a bit more time but we seem to have less time.
Oh I worked hard in my younger days.
I worked hard and I'm still working hard.
The job I do is with the bananas, right.
It's every day and all year round.
Trim these leaves off.
Take the shells off, the old shells...
like you change your old clothes.
Yeah, let 'em breathe.
We don't use no sprays, we don't use no fertilisers.
Everything is organic? That right?
Yeah, everything is organic... free.
You plant your trees, they grow, you look after them
and you'll have good bananas.
At the end of the day you'll see what you've achieved.
It might take a month, two months...
but you can see all the bananas swinging.
You reap what you sow.
We've been working this place from generation to generation...
probably 100 years now.
Well I don't have money but I've got animals.
If I can get good produce from the ground and keep myself alive
then I'm a happy Saint.
With the sheep baa'ing at me, and the chickens are crowing...
so that's it, that's my life.
Turn over.
The donkey really understands what you say.
You say stop, he'll stop.
You tell him to go, he'll go.
He's the best friend you've got,
the best friend you have to work with,
to do the work that I can't do.
Yeah, he's brave.
You have to work hard to be a good farmer
and make the best out of what you've got.
That's what I did.
That crop I had out there,
I used seeds over and over,
and I had potatoes like that.
I think we need to be more thankful
and more satisfied with what we have.
When I come out in the morning
I look around and theres little birds
sitting around and singing their songs
and I think how wonderful to be able to enjoy that.
Even the crickets sometimes, they're all happy.
And I look at the plants how they grow
and I think how wonderful that is.
It's a lot to keep you alive and happy I always think.
You know if somebody is happy...
he is content.
I'm content with what I have
and pleased with what I've got.
I've got beautiful memories, yeah, yeah.
If you're contented, you're making yourself happy
with what you've got and what you do.
I've got no regrets about anything.
Just be a happy Saint.
Life is what you make it.
You have to make yourself happy.
Always look to the bright side of things.
And just think of what lumps of gold you've got
in your hands that you can't see.
I may be a bit ancient but
I just my life on this little island.
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