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Jun.26.2009 - 5:06 am
Don’t cause a scene.These were the unspoken words I grew up with. Cultured women don’t lose their decorum and tell shop keepers what they think of them. They maintain...
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Jun.16.2009 - 4:28 am
It's raining as I step out of the train and onto a sodden city central platform. I marvel at how I choose to go corporate on the very day the heavens open in Queensland.
I...
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Jun.15.2009 - 6:01 am
I have never been one for shopping lists or planning weekly meal menus. And nor, it seems, warehouse furniture shopping.
I have proven that I approach warehouse shopping in...
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Jun.04.2009 - 4:55 pm
I am standing, rather visibly at a table adorned with my newly published book, Aussie, Actually at the entrance of a busy Brisbane bookshop in the heart of the CBD. It is noon....
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About Lois
I was born in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. I grew up in Howick, a little country town which has auspiciously positioned itself as ‘The Hub of the Midlands’. I went to the same school with the same class from Year 1 to Year 12 and was...