-
Join 2,663 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
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
- 133,922 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
Tag Archives: Christmas
Merry Christmas: Tuesdays of Texture
As Christmas dawn breaks in Australia and children are getting up to see what joy Santa has left them in stockings and pillowcases the rest of the world sleeps. Santa of course has had his busiest night of the year. … Continue reading
Weekend Coffee Share 8th December 2018
Come on in and have a cuppa. Coffee? Tea? Bonnox? or perhaps a cool drink? This week has seen the start of Christmas Parties and suddenly it seems Christmas is looming. The first party was the Chemist’s Christmas Party. … Continue reading
Australian Tradition: Thursdays Special
Australia is a multicultural country and our traditions have in the past tended to come from the country of our origin. We used to celebrate with our Swedish friends on Christmas Eve feasting on gravlax and Swedish meatballs. We drank … Continue reading
Xmas Trees:Times Past
Thank you to everyone who contributed or left a comment about dressing up, our last months prompt. These can be seen here. This month we of course have to have a theme of Christmas. Will the disparate geographical locations give … Continue reading
Happy Christmas
Happy Christmas One and All I wish you a merry Christmas I wish you a merry Christmas I wish you a merry Christmas and a Happy New Year Our Australian Christmas is almost over as many in the world are … Continue reading
Weekend Coffee share: December 19th 2015
Welcome. Come in and have a cup of coffee or tea. How are your preparations for Christmas going? You are probably ready to sit back and relax. If we “were having coffee” I’d tell you that I have done as … Continue reading
Reflections and Nightmares- Irene A Waters (writer and memoirist) 