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Life With Loz

Life with Loz: Do you have the power to share?

Posted: 22 May 12 | IF I could chose a superpower, it would be this... to always magically have the right words at the right time. |

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Life with Loz: Mum, in a nutshell

Posted: 14 May 12 | LAUREN MITCHELL learns some new things about her mum while remembering some favourite memories. |

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Life with Loz: Space fillers inspire

Posted: 07 May 12 | YOU really do need to be multi-skilled in this mother business – who’d have thought ‘curator’ was a title I’d ever have to own? Writes Lauren Mitchell. |

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Life with Loz: Firing up the winter spirit

Posted: 01 May 12 | THE change of seasons gives an air of anticipation that life's about to change. It's the fresh start lazy people need. Writes LAUREN MITCHELL. |

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Life With Loz: Being a basket case

Posted: 27 Apr 12 | Uh oh. I’m on a slippery slope of sisal carpet. (Wouldn’t that chafe!) Metaphorically speaking. It’s what we do. I’ve started watching The Block. Every night. |

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Life with Brett: A divine feeling of love

Posted: 09 Apr 12 | WITH Lauren Mitchell on holidays Addy reporter Brett Worthington fills in and reveals a bit of his inner crazy ... oh and his love for going out alone. |

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Life with Loz: The thought affliction

Posted: 02 Apr 12 | LAUREN MITCHELL is reminded that we are not our thoughts and that sometimes, less is more. |

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Life with Loz: Eat, read, love books

Posted: 26 Mar 12 | A FUTURE without the reading of books is just too peculiar to comprehend. Writes Lauren Mitchell. |

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Life with Loz: Got a hole in one?

Posted: 19 Mar 12 | AFTER tripping around Bendigo's vintage clothing shops LAUREN MITCHELL wonders what sort of clothes will be treasured in decades to come? |

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Life with Loz: The unbearable hug

Posted: 12 Mar 12 | OK, it’s time to talk about social hugging. I know it’s awkward – the conversation as well as the action, but someone has to tackle these things. |

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Life with Loz: Stuck on them...

Posted: 06 Mar 12 | MY god, they’re breeding faster than the families. I’m talking about the sudden proliferation of stick-figure stickers on the back windscreen of (mostly) SUVs everywhere. |

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Life with Loz: Fragility of life at sea

Posted: 28 Feb 12 | I HEARD a story this week of a 40-year friendship that recently went adrift, ran aground, hit rock bottom. |

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Life with Loz: The possible blossom

Posted: 28 Feb 12 | WE should have done it years ago. Planted an apple tree. We tried to make up for shortsighted thinking in the botanical department, and this year we planted two. Exciting developments are now taking place in the backyard. |

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Life with Loz: Rolling with park life

Posted: 13 Feb 12 | “YEAH, you can take a photo. As long as you’re not going to post it on some weirdo porn site,” said the chick in the hot sausage van. I guess you can never assume people’s motivations. |

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Life with Loz: Mining for vinyl gold

Posted: 06 Feb 12 | Why does nostalgia have to hurt? Even the good memories come with their pangs of pain. Perhaps especially the good ones. |

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Life with Loz: Wondering hoo to ask?

Posted: 31 Jan 12 | As one of few elder stateswomen among a host of gen Y journos, naturally I’m held in high regard as a moral compass for the bright young things. |

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Hoppily ever after...

Posted: 31 Jan 12 | This is the story of the rabbit and the rat. It’s not, as it sounds, a chapter from Wind in the Willows, it’s a tale from our very own Rosalind Park, inner city Bendigo. |

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Chronicles of suburbia

Posted: 31 Jan 12 | Like little Pevensie children in thick fur coats venturing through the wardrobe door for the very first time, our guinea pigs took their first steps into a brave new dimension. |

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The squeeze of the trees

Posted: 31 Jan 12 | Christmas is largely about excess. Bar all the Jesus business, obviously. And fitting the excess things in. I once bought a Christmas tree, half price, yet two sizes too big for our house. Really. |

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