Christina Smith and Dot Walmsly encapsulate the meaning of friendship, spending World Friendship Day on Saturday together at Mercy Place, Shepparton, where the two live.
“When I first came into Mercy Place, it just clicked,’’ Ms Smith said.
“We walk together and I do a lot of colouring which I’ll always show Dot.
“Even my children and hers are friends now.
“If we go out on the bus we can go to McDonald’s for an ice cream, Dot will shout us one day and I’ll do it the next, we take it in turns.”
“I don’t know how they let us do that,” Ms Walmsly said with a laugh.
Ms Walmsly said friends were incredibly important, especially as you got older.
“I’ve got an amazing family but they’re pretty busy, especially on weekends with everyone playing all sorts of sport so they don’t always have time to come see me, and I understand that,” she said.
She said somewhere like Mercy Place was brilliant for her, too, with plenty of people to interact with, and, after years working in the health sector, she felt lucky to be at Mercy.
“It’s a really active place, there are plenty of things organised,’’ she said.
“A lot of other places they don’t get people doing things like this.
25°C