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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.
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Reflections and Nightmares- Irene A Waters (writer and memoirist) 
There is something almost perfect about the way the colour of azaleas matches the petals: nature at its artistic best.
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Yes I don’t think you can beat nature Simon.
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Great photos. 😀
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Thanks Raewyn. XD
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Thanks Raewyn 🙂
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Love azaleas – we also have some in bloom right now. They bloom twice a year, spring and early fall!
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Here too but spring is best for us as our summer is too humid for them to do well in autumn
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Such special flowers and beautiful photos Irene!
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Thanks Barbara
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As your setting blooms to pink, mine fades to gold!
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Almost poetic. Lovely thought – simultaneous spring and autumn.
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Surely more than a little, Irene ! – unless you’re being revoltingly prosaic and intending us to understand that white is not “a colour” ??? 😉
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You’ve got me there M-R. It was just a teensy garden bed with nothing like the walls of colour you get in Sydney. Few people grow them here as the humidity knocks them for six. 🙂
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Ah ! – I didn’t realize. In fact, had I been asked, I would stupidly have said they’d grow well up there.
Yer lives and learns.
[grin]
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Happy spring my friend! Have a great weekend 🙂
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Thanks Sherri. Enjoy your autumn.
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