Lois K Nicholls's Writings
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Jun.04.2009
I took my dog for a walk this morning. I snuck out the back way, through the bush and along the fire track. I was rather hoping to avoid Slater. Slater is the neighbourhood vagabond. We live in a picturesque little enclave where most properties ramble into each other without the concern of fences. This is not sensible suburbia, neatly fenced and gated where the...
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Jun.04.2009
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. The streets are full of relaxed shoppers and workers enjoying a lunchtime break. I on the other hand, am quite terrified.My daughter Lara, otherwise known as Chief Illustrator, has been...
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Jun.04.2009
The family wedding was set to be an exquisite occasion. Our wedding outfits were carefully chosen weeks before the event. My two sons would be handsome and smart in their crisp white shirts and neatly pressed black pants, all bought especially for the nuptials of their precious aunt. As a sensible mother, and realising that children’s wedding outfits were...
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May.20.2008
Australian Country Style
Jane Caraffi grew up surrounded by books on art history and recalls being “dragged” around London galleries while herschool friends were off on exciting holidays. It was only much later, on the other side of the world, that she came to fully share her father’s passion for art and to open her own gallery, Art on Cairncross, in the south Queensland town of Maleny....
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May.20.2008
Australian Country Style
The view from Julian and Gillian Leigh’s Maleny home is striking. In the distance lie the Glasshouse Mountains, a smudged charcoal outline that contrasts starkly with the rolling green farmland in the foreground. A stately Morton Bay fig draws the eye to the front garden and a lily pondcompletes the serene picture. The tranquillity is momentarily disturbed as...
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May.20.2008
The Courier Mail
SO BRITISH fashionistas Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine are soon heading for our shores. They certainly have their work cut out for them.
I don't for a moment suggest Australians lack style and dress sense, it's just that the task ahead of them is, well, overwhelming weather-wise.
Their expertise is not in question.
I have gaped in wonder as Trinny, with...
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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...