Crafting your perfect retirement lifestyle at The Mornington

Celebrating an anniversary at The Mornington Retirement Village, Sheila Lindsay says there’s nowhere else she would rather be, thanks to the wide range of lifestyle choices living in the village offers to everyone.

Sheila grew up in the suburbs outside London and emigrated to Australia in 1967, one week after her 21st birthday.

She sailed to Victoria with a sponsorship from her aunt and quickly took up an office job in Footscray, then Blackburn, before moving to Cheltenham when she married her husband Trevor in 1970.

After a number of jobs in accounting and office work, Sheila retired in 1991 to care for her mother - who had moved across the world at the age of 64 to live with her daughter.

Living in Cheltenham for over 40 years, Sheila knew she wanted to move into a Retirement Living village, but Trevor took some convincing.

“My friend had lived in Mornington for a long time and we thought about moving but my husband was a bit of a ‘I don’t want to move guy’,” Sheila explained.

“He was actually in hospital at one stage and I don’t know what happened but he fell out of bed and he changed his mind!”

“So we started looking and we found The Mornington and I absolutely love it.”

Sheila moved into The Mornington nine years ago exactly, on 11 November, and is currently a member of the Owners Corporation Committee and the Social Committee, volunteer roles that she takes pleasure in as they give her purpose and many lovely friendships.

“There’s so much that we do; and there’s no boredom here!”

She said there’s many aspects of life at The Mornington to love, and that it caters to people who have all sorts of ideas about what the perfect retirement lifestyle looks like.

“It’s very open, we’ve got a lake, we’ve got trees everywhere, our houses aren’t on top of one another,” Sheila said. 

“We’ve got wonderful staff here and I just love it - I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else.

“We have lots of activities; concerts, lunches and bus outings, there’s plenty to do. But if you don’t want to, you don’t have to - that’s really what’s good about it.”

The other important aspects of The Mornington lifestyle according to Sheila are the peace of mind that residents get from having access to an externally monitored 24/7 emergency response system, and having the maintenance and shared gardens taken care of.

For more information about crafting the perfect retirement lifestyle visit our page on The Mornington Retirement Village.