Okay people, when you complain that you are too tired to do anything, too exhausted to work, and can’t be bothered to go out, imagine how Antisa Khvichava feels at 130 years old! Antisa who still enjoys a glass of wine and a sip of vodka was born in 1880 and yet only retired in 1965!
Antisa lives in a remote mountain village in Georgia and the authorities have formed a petition for the Guiness Book of Records to acknowledge her as the oldest woman in the world. “We have the documents to prove it,” says the head of Georgia’s civil registry Giorgi Vashadze.
Still in good health, Antisa was shown on TV two days ago on International Women’s Day being congratulated by her children, grandchildren and great-grandchilden.
Words by Melissa Lewars