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Audrey Joslin believes she has lived nearly 20 "bonus years".
So she has spent them giving her time, and considerable skill in crafts, to those in need.
A survivor of the blitz in World War II, Mrs Joslin, 89, lost her husband to cancer 23 years ago. Five years later she too was diagnosed with cancer.
"I wasn't afraid. But I didn't expect to come back. But when I came too eventually, the nurse said, 'Mrs Joslin, you have got nothing to worry about, the doctor has taken everything away'. So I feel I've been given 20 years of bonuses."
It is a selfless and courageous outlook honed in the streets of Portsmouth, England, during the blitz. One particular raid caused havoc above her head, while she sheltered underground. "When we came out everything was altered. And a whole street, called King's Rd, was gone. But I still cycled home every night."
Survival that day has meant the North Shore Hospital's premature babies unit has received over 1000 of Mrs Joslin's knitted booties and hundreds of cardigans and beanies. "Why do I do it? Because I care about people, I just can't help it. It's just in me."
Maternity facility manager Lucy Casey said: "It's the generosity of people like Audrey that helps us to do that little bit extra for the mothers and babies in our care. It's heart-warming to receive these items and be able to pass them on to appreciative families."
