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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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Animal: Weekly Discover Challenge and 99 Word Flash Fiction: Big Brown Dog
The bond between dog and master is strong and this goes back through the ages. The dog is the only animal that has been domesticated that has altered its behaviour by developing a bark, in its effort to communicate with … Continue reading
Five Photos, Five Stories Challenge: The China Dog
Raewyn of decocraftsdigicrafts invited me to take part in the Five Photos, Five Stories Challenge. Thanks, Raewyn! The challenge is to “post a photo each day for five consecutive days and attach a story to the photo. It can be … Continue reading
Skywatch Friday: 24th April 2015 Noosaville 4:55pm
Most of you will have seen many blue skies of Noosa before so today I have included a short video of the sounds of the Noosa skies at dusk. My videoing is still a work in progress but it is … Continue reading
Cee’s Odd Ball Challenge: My daily in life in an odd ball way
All these photographs were taken accidently. The iphone 5 has a feature the iphone 4S didn’t and that is that photos can be taken via the loudness controls, the on/off switch as well as the normal red button. As a … Continue reading
Cee’s Fun Foto: Farm Animals
In response to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge
Thursday’s Special: Restoration
I’m not sure that strictly speaking renovation is restoration but once we had ripped the back of the house off we certainly had to restore it to a house with walls. We’d finished our time at the shop and at … Continue reading
Weekly Photo Challenge: Scale
(5 photographs) Australia is full of big things. At the zoo we have bears which are not native to our country but lifesize replicas are made to bring home the differences in scale between humans and these great beasts. The … Continue reading
Weekly Photo Challenge: Express Yourself
Writing, a solitary pursuit the challenge it is huge In a group our words did flow A book we proudly published. Then we packed up house, made the move, a good one I might say. Apart from leaving the support … Continue reading
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