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The ominous presence of the house makes me hesitate. I feel its hate but the woman I love is inside. Without choice, I creep to the front door as the house stares at me. I knock. A man, her father opens it. The house is nothing; boy is her Dad scary.
In response to Sonya’s Three Line Tales
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.
lol straight out of the ‘Munster Family’ .. well done 🙂
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LOL Hadn’t thought of that. But then wouldn’t Lurch be opening the door or is that the Adams family?
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was not allowed to watch either but saw the promos 😉
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Gosh – I think you grew up in a stricter household than mine. We got a TV a year before I started high school and then we moved to the city. I think I got away with more in the city than I would have if we had to stay in the country as I beat my Mum home from school.
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lol my father was war damaged from his service in PNG and my mother was deaf for my first seventeen years so STRICT they were!
Irene when you’ve returned from your cruise and got some time, I’d really appreciate an interview with you for my ‘Meet the Bloggers’?
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Does that mean that your Mum got her hearing back when you were 17. That must have been mind blowing for her. I’m sorry about your Dad – war (I’m assuming) is just horrendous. I’d love to do an interview with you Kate. You’ll know when I’m back or I’ll give you a shout.
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they gave Mum plastic ear-drums, hers had vanished from severe perforations at the age of eleven so she had good speech and was a great lip reader … it may have been more mind blowing for us as we’d developed a habit of saying whatever we liked with our mouth covered! She found out her children were not quite as sweet as she thought 🙂
Yes let me know when you get back?
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LOL. You sound like my young nephews who on visiting Australia decided that French would be their secret language. They had a rude shock when the child care chap at the first hotel replied to their chatter in French.
Yes will do.
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that happened to me and a friend in London, we were chatting in German about a couple of cute guys then they answered us in German as we left lol 🙂
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Haha.
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lol we deserved it ‘)
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Her dad – not a guy I want to meet.
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I think meeting the Dad for the first time is always a nerve wracking affair. Even Roger was slightly nervous and he was a middle age man.
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