© irene waters 2014
© irene waters 2014
In France containers for food and items with which one cooks are more than attractively contained. The markets have the food presented in beautiful woven baskets and these oils and vinegars are artistic enough to want to display them to look at. It is a different matter in Vietnam where the only French influence is in some cooking techniques. Many of the animals are sold live in containers that I would normally use for the laundry or for my dog’s drinking water.
© irene waters 2014
© irene waters 2014
The final container of a person’s life however is of much more ornate design made from granites and marbles with no expense spared.
© irene waters 2014
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About Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist
I began my working career as a reluctant potato peeler whilst waiting to commence my training as a student nurse. On completion I worked mainly in intensive care/coronary care; finishing my hospital career as clinical nurse educator in intensive care. A life changing period as a resort owner/manager on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu was followed by recovery time as a farmer at Bucca Wauka. Having discovered I was no farmer and vowing never again to own an animal bigger than myself I took on the Barrington General Store. Here we also ran a five star restaurant. Working the shop of a day 7am - 6pm followed by the restaurant until late was surprisingly more stressful than Tanna. On the sale we decided to retire and renovate our house with the help of a builder friend. Now believing we knew everything about building we set to constructing our own house. Just finished a coal mine decided to set up in our backyard. Definitely time to retire we moved to Queensland. I had been writing a manuscript for some time. In the desire to complete this I enrolled in a post grad certificate in creative Industries which I completed 2013. I followed this by doing a Master of Arts by research graduating in 2017. Now I live to write and write to live.
Reflections and Nightmares- Irene A Waters (writer and memoirist) 
oh wow Irene you totally nailed this challenge! Is that starfish I see in one of the plastic basins? :O
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Thanks Andy, yes they are star fish. Hard to think of those little lizards being eaten and the inky sea slugs. I bet though some people think they are delicious. 🙂
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The things people come up with lol wow 🙂
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🙂
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Great post Irene 😉
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Thanks Irene
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Fantastic selection of containers, Irene.
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The bottles were just beautiful to look at. Cheers
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Beautiful bottles and containers for vinegar! Makes you want to cook!
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Agree they are beautiful but making you want to cook…. it’d take a bit more than these to give me that desire. 🙂
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I’m mush more fond of your first than your last LOL!
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Me too. 🙂
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Great look at a variety of containers. Last one intrigues me–is the final container more elaborate than the home?
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Most definitely. I think that perhaps he was advertising he was a coffin maker as I think we had stumbled into death alley. There were a number of shacks with coffins outside – all much more ornate than the home they sat in front of. If this was not the case I think that there must have been a highly contagious disease going around and we were lucky to get out without requiring that final container.
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Love those bottles, fascinating to see how those live creatures are sold in Vietnam. Great entry for ‘containers’, you came up with such an eclectic and hugely interesting range my friend 🙂
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Yes the bottles are great. It was interesting. This was the only place we did not eat locally. Roger and I had dinner alone in the motel whilst the other six went to a local restaurant. Roger’s decision turned out to be sound as the other six were all violently ill for the next couple of days whilst we happily continued our holiday with no sign of food poisoning.
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Goodness….you certainly made the right decision there, or rather Roger did. How awful for the others in your party (hope they were able to enjoy some of their holiday once recovered) but what a mercy for you both.
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Perhaps I should listen to him more often. 🙂
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Haha 😉
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A great presentation of containers! … from the beautiful jars, to the cages with live *stuff*, and finally burial containers. I loved them all 🙂
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Thanks Joanne. Glad you liked them. 🙂
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