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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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The rich intensity of the flowers’ colors makes me happy. You shoot great close ups, Irene. What kind of camera do you use?
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Thanks Sharon. The camera varies from an Olympus to my iphone 5c. The close-ups were horrendous when I first started doing them but I think I have worked out the trick of focussing for most these days work. Thanks.
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So good to look at vibrant colors when here all is bland as milky mud. What are the berries?
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I wanted to ask the same thing – and are the edible?
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I’ll let you know – I don’t at the moment know what they are.
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This is a friend’s veggie garden and everything in it is edible but what the berries are I don’t know. I will ask her and let you know.
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I can now tell you that the plant with the berry is a climbing spinnach. Leaves are used in salads, berries aren’t eaten. Apparently it is delicious and I am going to gain a cutting. Yeah!
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All be darned! I never would have guessed that. I looked at my recent seed catalog and there is a climbing (mulbar) spinach that says it is heat tolerant. Some grow it as an ornamental, but yes, the leaves would be delicious. Thanks for finding out!
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No problem.
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Anne it is a climbing spinnach. The leaves are edible but the berries aren’t eaten – I don’t know whether that is because they taste dreadful or whether simply not edible.
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