Timaru woman Mildred Low has just turned 101 but she’s not letting that milestone slow her down.
In fact, she’s one of just two women in New Zealand over the age of a hundred who still hold a driver license.
“I enjoy getting out and having a drive around, I think it boosts you up somehow or other,” she says.
But it’s the independence it gives her that she loves the most.
“You do get a bit of pleasure out of just being able to go out and do what you want to do when you want to do it," she says.
Her late husband taught her how to drive when she was 37 - a manual of course.
And she’s been driving the same car for the past 30 years.
There are only 33 people over the age of 100 in New Zealand who still hold their driver license and Ms Low is just one of two women, much to her delight.
She says she loves people’s reaction when they find out she’s still driving.
“They say, 'You’re amazing' - that’s about the only answer you get,” she laughs.
Ms Low says once you get into your eighties you feel you’ve had your life but the answer is to keep going.
And for over a century, that’s what she has done.
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