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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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Weekly Photo Challenge: Adventure
A number of the expats on the island, including ourselves, were due to leave within a month of each other. Our contract was about to end which, we had taken, to give us a safe place to live on the island, … Continue reading
Weekly Photo Challenge: Zig Zag
The number of zig zag roads I have travelled are numerous but due to an irrational fear of windy, narrow roads my tendency to photograph everything is stilled by fear when it comes to these occasions. There was the time … Continue reading
Bite Size memoir No.11: Holiday Reads
Books have always been a large part of my family life. My parents were both avid readers and I can remember the regular parcels coming from James Thin Edinburgh with first editions of novels for my father long before the … Continue reading
Timbergetters, Forebears, Water and BOTS
When we had the farm we became interested in the history of the area and soon realised that my forebears were instrumental in the upstream country where logging the timber with the bullock teams was the main activity. It must … Continue reading
Bite Size memoir No 9: Cycling
I can understand Lisa’s choice of prompt as Yorkshire sees the start of the Tour de France. We watched it on the television stunned at the number of people turned out for the occasion. Over a million we were told. … Continue reading
Bite Size Memoir Number 8: Dressing Up
For fancy dress parties in the early days I was Little Bo Peep and my brother a cowboy. Twice this varied — once going as Sad Sack and another time when we went as Siamese twins in my Father’s pyjama … Continue reading
Bite Size Memoir No 7 : Childhood Illness
As soon as Lisa posted this weeks prompt I knew what I was going to write but I mentioned to her that I’d struggle to get it into 150 words. She suggested writing an explanatory piece to the flash so … Continue reading
Bite Size Memoir Number 6: First Jobs
A kitchen hand at the community cottage hospital was my first job. I dislike kitchen work immensely so I wasn’t well-suited to it but it filled in the time between finishing school and commencing my nurse training. My task was … Continue reading
Bite Size memoir Number 5: Camping
I”ve camped all my life, not regularly, just throughout. We camped in our cowboy tent in the back yard and before long my Dad, who loved camping, had us on a road trip with a big tent and a … Continue reading
Bite Size Memoir Number 4: Sports Day
Sports days were fun events in primary school. In addition to the normal running events there were also races such as the egg and spoon race, the sack race and the three-legged race. Races that even the non-athletic child wanted … Continue reading
Reflections and Nightmares- Irene A Waters (writer and memoirist) 