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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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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Harvest (in Vietnam)
As a crop rice has always been important in Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh’s first promise after declaring independence from France was to fix the rice crisis. The people at this time did not have enough to eat as a result … Continue reading
Bogong Moths: An Australian icon
Lisa, from the UK, who reads my posts and runs bite size memoir each week commented that she would like to see the moth that caused me to douse my room with napthalene flakes. Hence this post was born. The Bogong … Continue reading
Risk Taking
Reading a post “The Past is always tense, the future perfect” Geoff from TanGental advises that we either “run shrieking with delight into the sea of possibilities or we can poke it suspiciously with a stick to see if a serpent … Continue reading
Weekly writing Challenge: A Lost Art
There are so many lost arts such as building dry rock walls that have been lost or almost lost to society. I have a friend who is a dry rock wall builder having done his apprenticeship in the UK. There … Continue reading
Keep cool at peoples stupidity and insensitivities
An (allegedly) true story (found floating in cyberspace) told about Gandhi ….. When Gandhi was studying law at the University College of London, There was a professor, whose last name was Peters, who felt animosity toward Gandhi, and because Gandhi … Continue reading
Do you want to live forever? At least live a long, healthy life.
Today my brother is taking out our Mother for her 86th birthday. Sadly he won’t be there as he lives in Switzerland and my husband and I are going in his stead. We’ll think of him whilst we dine at … Continue reading
Nitroglycerine
Some days you just feel like exploding and this made me think naturally, of nitroglycerine. Nitroglycerine was first made by an Italian chemistAscanioSobrero in 1847 at the university of … Continue reading
Weekly Photo Challenge: Reflections
Last night we went to the local theatre and saw a play titled Minefields and Miniskirts. It was brilliantly performed and the accompanying slide show, my last week photo challenge https://irenewaters19.com/2014/03/15/weekly-photo-challenge-inside-the-cu-chi-tunnels/ and the folk music of the era all took me back to … Continue reading
Weekly Writing Challenge: Names
An old English nursery rhyme whose first written record was 1872, “Sticks and Stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me” and “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet” by William Shakespeare Act II … Continue reading
Weekly Writing Challenge: The Nursing Reunion (Golden Years)
When the invitation arrived to attend the 40th reunion of the start of my nursing training my immediate reaction was disbelief that it was that long ago. It seemed like yesterday that sixty-two young girls were arriving at the nurses … Continue reading
Reflections and Nightmares- Irene A Waters (writer and memoirist) 