-
Join 2,182 other subscribers
Buy Nightmare in Paradise
Irene Waters Writer Facebook Page
Irene Waters Photography
-
-
Recent Posts
- Fly, Road, Rail – A trip north, west, south, east then north again – We head off January 2, 2023
- Happy New Year and another Go. December 25, 2022
- Out and About Where I live: Habitat Noosa 1 March 9, 2022
- Week in Review: Week 9 March 7, 2022
- Time, Memory & Identity (Part 3) + The Sense of an Ending – book Review March 2, 2022
Recent Comments
Irene Waters 19 Writ… on Radio Quiz Kid – My… Kim on Radio Quiz Kid – My… Friday-Flashback-Pre… on Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge:… 
THURSDAY’S SPE… on Over: Thursday’s Special Mind Lab on One Archives
Categories
- 2013
- 5 photos 5 days
- A Lingering Look at Windows
- A Word A Week photo challenge
- A-Z challenge
- Australia
- Awards
- Bird
- Book reviews
- cancer
- Carrot Ranch
- Cee's Black and white Challenge
- Cee's Fun Foto Challenge
- Cee's Odd Ball Challenge
- Cee's Which Way challenge
- Cees Flower of the Day
- creative writing
- cruising
- daily events
- Daily Post prompt and challenges
- Dogs
- Eses Weekly Shoot and Quote Challenge
- family
- fiction
- flash fiction
- Floral Friday
- Friday Fictioneers
- Guest posts
- haiku
- Historical Perspective
- irenewaters
- LILO
- Look up Look Down
- Macro Monday
- MBPOTW
- Memoir
- Memoir Monday
- memoir writing
- migration
- musings
- Nightmare in Paradise
- Noosa
- opinion
- Past Challenge
- pets
- Phoneography Challenge
- photo challenges
- photography
- poetry
- road to being published
- Shadows
- Silent Sunday
- Skywatch Friday
- story telling
- Sunday stills: The Next Challenge
- technology
- Three Things Thursday
- Thursday's Special
- Times Past
- travel
- Travel Theme
- Trog and other Animals
- Uncategorized
- Weekend Coffee Share
- weekend funny challenge
- Weekend photo challenge
- Weekly Discover Challenge
- Weekly photo challenge
- weekly smile
- Wordless Wednesday
- Writing
- Writing Challenges
- Zach
Blog Stats
- 240,573 hits
Pages
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.
Blogging Challenges Available
Monthly early each month Times Past
Every Weekend Weekend Coffee Share
Sunday: Sunday Stills
Meta
Blogs I Follow
Category Archives: photography
Friday 4th Nov 2016 Noosaville 4.48 pm (plus some skywatching on Wednesday.)
Above my Friday sky but below, I just couldn’t resist Wednesdays with its ray of sunshine. As part of Skywatch Friday
Dressing Up: Times Past
Last month’s prompt Collections certainly showed that some collections were common over generations and geographical differences whilst other remembered collections have become un/less acceptable to collect now with our greater knowledge of the world. My favourite collection however had to be … Continue reading
A little bit of Sun: Floral Friday
Commercial Buildings: Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge
Country or city the aim is still the same Take some cash Make a buck A living to sustain Some perhaps more lucrative whilst others, a lifestyle they might gain. (or perhaps just extreme tiredness.) In response to Cee’s Fun … Continue reading
Flaneur: Weekly Discover Challenge
People smile and say gud day Friends gather, some picnic by the river Others whisper secrets Laughter everywhere. The man with the frown, mouth drooping Out of place Met friends Arms surround He must have lost his mate. Old people … Continue reading
Cairns or Markers of Humanity?: Silent Sunday
Transmogrification in Nature: Weekly Photo Challenge
The Great Geysir (originally just Geysir) is found in southwestern Iceland in the Haukadalur valley. In recent years it has become infrequent in its eruptions so on my visit in 1990 it was Strokkur geyser situated 50 metres from the … Continue reading
Through the Windscreen: Skywatch Friday: 28th October 2016 Noosaville 2.09 pm
For skywatch Friday
Reflections and Nightmares- Irene A Waters (writer and memoirist) 