Hilda Howes was surprised by Alan Fletcher from Neighbours for her 100th birthday celebrations<\/p>\n
The actor, who is known for his role as Dr Karl Kennedy in the series, shared a story about his great aunt who has also reached the milestone age, and sang the centenarian happy birthday before gifting her a mug.<\/p>\n
A manager at the care home had seen that Mr Fletcher was performing in a show locally – and decided to invite him to come and see Hilda.<\/p>\n
It was a moment she says she will treasure forever.<\/p>\n
Looking back on the last century, she believes the secret to her long life is \u201cgood parents and a happy family\u201d.<\/p>\n
She said: \u201cWe had six children in the family – I was the last one, so I suppose I should be a bit lonely as time goes on.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I’ve still got one sister and a brother who come and see me, so I’m lucky for that, that there’s somebody there.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy daughter and my son are both here, and lots of aunts and their children. It’s been a wonderful day.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to her son Michael, Hilda is the fourth of her six siblings to reach 100.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cIt’s quite an amazing feat. They’re a really quite incredible family, long-livers, and it was no surprise to me that she made 100.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe’s quite incredible – she’s very well, nothing wrong with her. She is completely sane and healthy, so she’s going to carry on and she’s quite happy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hilda Howes at her 100th birthday celebration at Lifestyles Maplewood Court care home<\/p>\n
Looking back on the last century, Hilda says some of her fondest memories are from the holidays she has been on.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had a caravan, went all over the coast and through the countryside in Spain and across there,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe met a lot of nice people. We\u2019re still in touch with one couple that lived in Scotland, but they came from France, so I haven’t seen them yet, but we talk to each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Michael added: \u201cWe had great fun camping. We’ve been to France, and we used to go to a place called Hope Cove in south Devon.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy brother, sister and I used to get up early in the morning and go to the farm and help milk the cows. That was really good fun.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hilda\u2019s son, Michael Howes<\/p>\n
As he and his siblings have got older, he has credited his mother for being \u201cvery supportive\u201d, particularly when he was in college.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe’s quite an emotional person, but she’s always been there for us. She’s been absolutely brilliant.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Additional reporting by KMTV\u2019s Henry Luck A \u201csupportive\u201d and \u201cbrilliant\u201d mum celebrated her 100th birthday with a surprise…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,192,191,1318,649,194,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-25265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-human-interest","tag-kent","tag-maidstone","tag-quirky","tag-syndicate","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}