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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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Weekly Photo Challenge: Mealy Bug infestation Up Close
Mealy Bugs are a plant pest found in warmer climates that feed on the sap of the plant. It is actually only the female who drinks the nectar as the adult male lives only to procreate, having developed wings so … Continue reading
Weekly Photo Challenge: Half and half
Sunset at the grand canyon followed by Sunrise at the same location. Both cut in half by sky and landscape. Here on Lake Geneva the photo is cut in half by under the cloud and above the cloud. Vertical half … Continue reading
Weekly photo Challenge: Doors of my Saturday
Having a weekend away in Brisbane and not having access to my archives where there are some spectacular doors I decided to show my day in Brisbane via the doors I passed through. There were surprisingly few of them. The … Continue reading
Weekly Photo Challenge: Where I return to photograph
I look at this bridge every day sometimes twice a day as it is on my normal dog walk route. Sometimes I photograph it for the sky. or for the tranquility or the reflections or just because it is there. … Continue reading
Weekly photo Challenge: All the colours of a rainbow
As I mulled over whilst in the shower what photos I could present for the weekly challenge to show Roy G. Biv (all the colours of the rainbow red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet) knowing I didn’t have … Continue reading
Weekly Photo Challenge: Off Season
Travelling in Europe in the Off season gives you a different perspective. We travelled in the early spring before the summer holidays. The towns whose multiple car parks alert us that this is a tourist town are deserted of both … Continue reading
Weekly Photo Challenge: Vivid Horny Beasts
These 6 photographs of two different species of horny beasts are vivid not only in colour but in my memory. I took the first three when I returned to Sydney for a Nurses Reunion and my friend and I did … Continue reading
Weekly Photo Challenge: From the Bus Window
In the bus taking me to the airport my very early morning start was rewarded by this wonderful cloud that seemed to be sitting on the ground. In response to weekly photo challenge
Weekly Photo Challenge: Broken in more ways than one
Angkor Thom was founded by King Jayavarman VII built in the 10th and 11th century. It was built in an almost perfect square and outside its high walls was a wide moat which once housed hungry crocodiles. It is a … Continue reading
Weekly Photo Challenge: Enveloped
(3 photos) Mist wraps around anything in its path as it swirls eeriely enveloping. It does not give a feeling of warmth or safety but rather challenges you to enter its depths. the steps taken uncertainly. Unlike the babe enveloped … Continue reading