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Irene Waters
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.
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Looks like a tropical paradise and a wonderful place to stay, Irene.
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It certainly is beautiful Barbara and for the rest — you’ll have to read my book when I get it out there. Suffice to say it is a place that you will never forget.
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This is so gorgeous. I need to build a stone perimeter for my new round planting area…Love the looks of this one. Where is this, Irene? New Zealand?
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Another job for Pasiano. Did he find the caterpillar? These photos are taken on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu.
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I think that is a place I’d like to see. Perhaps we should plan a blogger’s holiday. We could all sit in our rooms blogging each other…ha.
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Sounds like a plan if they have internet. LOL
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We could always fall back on antiquated forms of communication such as face-to-face conversation.
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That would never do. A dying art.
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He did find it…thus the pictures. Then there was another smaller one he found a week or more later.
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So very beautiful, Irene! Where did you take these pictures? There are times that I still miss my tropical home … the flowers and trees are so beautiful!
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I can understand you missing the tropics. The vegetation is so lush. These photos were taken on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu.
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Love these, especially the tiki god protecting all he surveys.
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Me too. He is carved out of a tree fern stem.
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Nice tropical theme this week
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Summer is coming. Probably hasn’t quite reached you yet.
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