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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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Bridges Old and New: Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge
Lennox bridge is the oldest stone bridge on the Australian mainland. It is located in the Blue Mountains and we were lucky enough to stumble across it when we were in Sydney recently. In 1831 Major Mitchell employed David Lennox, … Continue reading
Study in Minimalism: Black and White: Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge
In response to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge where this week we can choose any subject as long as it is black and white.
Birds at Bird World Maleny: Blue and Yellow: Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge
Maleny Botanic Gardens and Bird World was an unexpected find that I know we will visit more than once. We wandered the gardens before heading to our allocated guided aviary tour at 1.30pm. Whilst we waited on the outside the … Continue reading
Motor Cycles & Wagons in Egypt: Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge
In response to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge
Farm Animals in Egypt: Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge
In Egypt there were few farm animals. We didn’t see any chickens although they would have been there. Goats were common as were cows. They weren’t in the numbers that would be needed to feed a population the size of … Continue reading
Life along the Nile: Catching People Unaware: Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge
Cee has unwittingly chosen my favourite type of photography and my favourite past time – observing people unawares. I particularly love capturing facial expressions that let me make a story as to what the person’s thoughts are at the time. … Continue reading
Soil at the dig: Closeup or Macro: Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge
You get the impression that where ever you dig in Egypt you’ll unearth a town, a temple or burial chambers. There is so much left yet to find. The correct response to this weeks prompt by Cee for her Fun … Continue reading
Dressed up on the Nile: Funny: Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge
Roger is not into dressups and neither of us is in to spending money on things that we will never use again but we couldn’t be the only ones from our group not to dress up. I determined I would … Continue reading
Sunrise in the Sahara: Cold: Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge
4am the phone rings. Bright as a button I answer. I wonder how many cold, grumpy, sleepy responses the wake-up man gets to his phone call. We pick up our breakfast box and are on our way by 4.30am. We … Continue reading
Topics from a Photo: Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge
Cee has challenged us for this weeks fun foto to picking topics from the above photograph. She suggests possible topics are: This week’s possible topics are music, guitar, instrument, men, candid, coffee, cup, cafe, jewelry, plates, sofa, etc.  Men and … Continue reading
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