Still working at 100
Charity shop volunteer is unstoppable despite age
DAVID Flucker takes two buses and then walks 20 minutes to get to work at a charity shop – a journey of two hours each way.
Which is even more remarkable given he celebrated his 100th birthday on Wednesday.
The grandad-of-seven clocked in as usual at St Columba’s Hospice shop the next day, and says: “It is a wonderful feeling to be doing something.”
Widowed in 2010, David started at the shop after he was diagnosed with prostate cancer and spent two weeks at the hospice.
He said: “It is two buses and a 20-minute walk to the shop, at least two hours.
“I work three days a week, Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
“We get a lot of donations, I check the clothes... we get a lot of toys, books, jigsaw puzzles. We have got to check them all.”
David, who lives and volunteers in Edinburgh, also builds model railways to auction for the hospice. He worked as a printer until he was 72.
For his 100th, he had a boat tour of the Firth of Forth and he added: “I had a marvellous birthday cake covered in raspberries. There might be more, I’ll be putting on weight!”
It is a wonderful feeling to be doing something – it is two buses and a 20-minute walk
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