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.
What a tail on that cat! Magnificent!
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The tail was bigger than the cat.
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Cute kitty and wow what a coat! 🙂
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Yes she had a lovely coat and loved that fire.
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Great photo. 😀
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Thanks Raewyn.
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Is she as demanding as our dogs about getting a fire lit on chilly days? 🙂
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Not so much demanding as just constantly waiting. 🙂
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Bliss is a purring cat, or two, by the fire. ❤
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Yes it makes you feel really cosy.
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Ahh…that’s your Maisy isn’t it, such a sweetie ❤ Lovely, cosy photo this Irene 🙂
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Yes it is Sherri. For some reason an open fire always makes a place feel warm (cosy warm). We haven’t had open fires in our last two places but we have put in very realistic flame fires run electrically. They work equally well on the cosiness factor but don’t give us the work of an open fire and saves on trees and pollution. 🙂
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Ahh…lovely photo 🙂 And we have just the same as you in our house Irene, looks just like a real log fire with a fireplace but electric so no clean up 🙂 ❤
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