Chatterbox Kathleen Phipps is flying high after doing a sponsored silence for Essex Air Ambulance.
Mrs Phipps said her husband, Don, and friends and customers at the Wick Lodge pub in Jaywick Lane, Clacton, were always betting her she couldn't keep quiet for a minute. So 71-year-old Kathleen took them at their word and remained silent for more than two hours.
"If I don't talk, my husband thinks he has gone deaf," joked Mrs Phipps.
Her silence over Sunday lunch in the Clacton pub raised £120.
Mrs Phipps said: "Everybody in the pub was really working on me hard to make me talk but they didn't succeed and I was thrilled to raise this money for the air ambulance.
"It will buy a bit of petrol to keep them flying," she said.
Mrs Phipps, who lives in Park Square West, has lived in the area for more than 25 years.
Published Wednesday, February 16, 2005
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