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<description><![CDATA[Susan Masters talks about life]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Whisked away - A look back at This Life as columnist prepares to be . . .]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[THIS is my penultimate column.
Yes, folks, I’m off, hitting the road, finishing up, calling it quits . . . I’m out of here in two weeks in pursuit of that elusive brass ring, euphemistically referred to in this decade as work-life-balance.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:54:13 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Emotional baggageis better left behind]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[MOST of us have some kind of baggage, be they kids, ex-wives or ex-husbands, ex-boyfriends, ex-girlfriends, stalkers, or family members who are dependent upon us.
The fact is almost anyone who has lived has some kind of baggage.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:25:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Welcome to a new age of trolley rage]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[COLUMNS such as this are a dime a dozen these days.
Most are written by female journalists over 40 who have more regard for their fragile egos than their readers.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:28:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Time out is positively in]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Why not reward points for mums?]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:22:02 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hurried makeover]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[THE “dog ate my homework” excuse isn’t exactly what I was expecting to offer you today. But the truth of matter is that MM3 (remember, the littlest one) effectively swallowed my column whole when she belted the living daylights out of my laptop.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 21:00:30 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Opposites don't always attract]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[NORMALLY, I’m not a big wrap for chick flicks, but this Valentine’s Day do yourself a favour and check out He’s Just Not That Into You.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:51:24 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[All at sea over fishing for men]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[WE’RE engaged! the text message read, and I was all at once elated and deflated when it arrived two days ago.
My friend (blonde, toned, tanned, smart and six years my junior) had caught another fish in the sea.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 22:13:58 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Lack of sleep takes its toll]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I NEED sleep. I’ve been surviving, but only just, on about four hours a night for more than a week now and it’s beginning to take its toll.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:34:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Next year I will . . . keep my resolution]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[IT’S January 1, you’re hung over and two kilos heavier after the Christmas splurge, but you’re still full of determination to make a fresh start in 2009.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 20:48:16 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Christmas Elf says go and spend]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[CHRISTMAS is a strange time of year. You either love it or hate it. I just work through it . . . literally.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 22:26:23 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Downsizing made simple]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[MUST apologise to my neighbours for the noise on Thursday night.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 21:46:20 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Friends in deed]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ALL my best friends, past and present, are blonde.
Some are ash blonde, others honey blonde and one or two are blonde by their own design.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:43:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Big C a chink in knight's armour]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[OKAY ladies you asked for it! This week’s column is about the big C.
COMMITMENT. Looks impressive in caps, doesn’t it?]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:09:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[When life is like a Seinfeld episode]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[IT’S nearing midnight on Thursday. Just 12 hours until this column is due and I’ve come up short.
Not short of ideas, mind you, just short of enthusiasm to pontificate on my chosen topic this week: sins of the father and sins of the mother.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:41:35 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[How we laughed in the old school yard]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[DO you remember the days of the old school yard? Cat Stevens certainly had it right when he wrote the lyrics to this classic 70s song; we used to laugh a lot . . . Well, we used to laugh a lot at Golden Square High. But when the last lessons are taught and the doors close on November 28, no one will be laughing, least of all me, a former student between 1977 and 1980.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:01:34 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Price of keeping up appearances]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I’VE been told, on more than one occasion, that I’m high maintenance.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:03:18 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Fat? Don’t makea meal of it . . .]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[IT’S my house that’s overweight. Not me.
Chips and chocolate aren’t my problem.
It’s that pile of newspapers on the coffee table, my scattergun shoe cupboard, and pantry packed with “aspirational’’ out-of-date jars of quince paste, baby capers, and wattleseed.
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<pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:12:43 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Coffee cuts to the chase]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[THE girls in the office want me to write about dating when you’re over 40.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 22:46:08 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Women need wives as well]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A mother’s work is never done]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 06:20:47 GMT</pubDate>
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