She might be at an age where she could easily be forgiven for settling down and enjoying the quiet life, but daredevil Barbara Watson wants no such thing.
To mark her forthcoming 70th birthday, the grandmother strapped herself to the top of an aeroplane to take part in a daring wing-walk.
Barbara has previously completed a skydive, an abseil and an aerochute ride, flown a plane and walked around the outside of the 328-metre Sky Tower in New Zealand.
She said she wanted to do something extra-special to mark her milestone birthday in August.
"It was absolutely amazing," Barbara, of Melton, said of her wing-walk. "I've wanted to do it for a long, long time.
"I wasn't nervous at all, I'd just been so looking forward to it. You don't have any training, you know. The pilot just told me to follow him up and showed me where to put my feet and then I was harnessed into the frame.
"He told me we needed to have a signal. He said if I had my hands in the air and was waving them around, then he would know I was having fun. But if I felt it wasn't for me, I had to put my thumbs down and we would land within a minute. That didn't happen."
Barbara said it was a thrill to be in the air. "I just felt pure adrenaline," she said. "I could see for miles around. We went down so we were above the tree-tops and did a dive and then went back up."
The only thing they didn't fit in was a loop-the-loop.
"That was because of the type of engine, he told me we couldn't do it," said Barbara. "But I'm sure I would have been up for it."
Barbara says she has always up for an adventure.
"I don't know where it's come from but if there's something thrilling then I've got to do it," she said. "I feel that I've got to do these things.
"I've not got anything planned now, I shall have to think of something."
Barbara celebrates her golden wedding with husband Carl next year, so said she might think of a stunt to mark the occasion.
Although he thinks his wife is "nuts," Carl is supportive of her antics.
"I back her 100 per cent," he said. "She's more adventurous than me, I've got no desire to do it with her. Someone's got to stay on the ground and film it, that's my excuse.
"I do worry about her a bit, there's always a bit of anxiety. But I'm very proud of her as well."
