LONDON, Oct 11 (Reuters) - One of Britain's oldest residents celebrated her 105th birthday on Saturday, putting her long life down to not having sex.
Clara Meadmore said she had never had sex because she has always been too busy for intimate relationships and it seemed like "a lot of hassle".
The former housekeeper and secretary said she knew she would remain single from the age of 12 and abstained as a young woman to concentrate on earning a living despite several offers of marriage, local newspaper The Western Morning News reported.
"I have just never been interested in or fancied having sex," she was quoted as saying.
She celebrated her birthday with a glass of wine with friends at the Perran Bay home for the elderly in Truro, Cornwall, southwest England, where she lives.
Meadmore was born in Glasgow in 1903 but her family moved to Egypt, Canada and New Zealand, before she returned to Britain in her 20s
