Magic Minute Only The Lonely Know By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // A talkback radio caller once had me sit up and listen! He was saying, “Feeling alone and at a loose end, I was walking along the quiet end of Melbourne’s Flinders Street when another lone figure wearing sunglasses came into view.” Afraid of […]
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Magic Minute Long Held Fear Left Behind By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // Young Johan was skating full pelt along the frozen canal to get home because darkness was now upon him. But in the poor visibility, he crashed through a works barrier and into a hole in the freezing water. “I’m going to die!”,
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Magic Minute Boys’ Close Call With Crocodile By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // Figure this out… The southern state of Victoria has no tropics or crocodiles, yet me and my little brother got the fright of our lives when we came across one of these maneaters on the river flats behind our country home! The
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Magic Minute Teetering On The Edge By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // My first time behind the wheel of that Wasa Jeep, a two-ton Russian relic of WWII, had me careening sideways on a gravel bend miles up in the Italian Alps. I slammed on the brakes but it kept going, thumping to a stop
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Magic Minute Moonlight Misstep By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // Twas a stormy night by the light of the silvery moon when it happened. Our merry nightman was waltzing down the garden path to our outhouse in the backyard to empty our night pan – long before universal sewerage had come along. But sadly for
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Magic Minute A Bird Man’s Leap of Trust By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // Thousands of Melbournians grew hushed as the next Moomba Bird Man was set to leap off the Yarra River’s towering Princes Bridge in their quest to fly the furthest for their nominated charity. This brave Birdman was my engineer neighbour Peter.
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Magic Minute Where English Comes From By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // The mish-mash of English origins renders much of our spelling very difficult and illogical for it’s a real hotch potch of influences, invasions, and linguistic mixtures. The very term ‘hotch potch’ comes from an early Anglo-Norman stewpot tossed together from whatever’s to hand.
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Magic Minute My Quirky Loveable Mum By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // My quirky loveable mother was something else! Widowed when she was 23 with three little boys under 4 in far away Donald, she battled through thick and thin to keep us together. When I was around 3, something remarkable happened while my mum
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Magic Minute From Terror to Wonder By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // “So there we were, comfortably chatting by the fire in the wilds of the Bogong High Plains, completely oblivious to what was about to happen … I do remember the comforting red glow of the fire reflecting on our faces; the pitch blackness
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Magic Minute A Universal Angel By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // “Ever been on the verge of your world crashing down around you when some Angel of The Universe appears and shields you from danger? That happened to me in the form of big, lovable,Pancho the Kiwi. We were on a rigorous training trip around
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