Lois K Nicholls's Blog

• A calculated confrontation

  June 26, 2009

  •  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 their dignity and they leave. They remain in control.Not this time.There was absolutely no forewarning. Nothing spectacular that led to the demise of the said decorum. It was simply a case of returning things and a string ...
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• Covertly Corporate

  June 16, 2009

  • 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 commend myself on my choice of outfit-in essence, my spare wedding ensemble from my niece's recent nuptials-the sensible attire I rejected in favour of a frothy, frivolous dress. Fashionistas Trinny and Susannah would be ...
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• Carpet Ride

  June 15, 2009

  •  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 exactly the same way I approach food shopping: with spontaneity and according to what is on special. Of course I will buy the sensible basics, but it's the other miscellaneous items that often become a little blurred and ...
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