Magic Minute An Odd Angry Scot By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // “Hey, Mum! An angry Scotsman smashed Laurie’s new fishing rod over his knee because we got our line tangled with his off the pier!” (I later learned my two brothers had broken it in half, hitting a fence while swatting butterflies!) But at […]
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Magic Minute Reluctant Stand In By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // Ever been dragooned into a short-term stand-in for something you weren’t that comfortable with? Well, this happened to me with a group of old guys as organizer of their monthly men’s dinner. But my mind soon changed for among these oldies were many interesting
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Magic Minute Those Passionate Italians By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // Ever noticed how Italians experience everything they’re involved in with an infectious passion! Well, having lived with them and studied their language for years I’m getting to understand this. I was once stuck in an endless traffic jam trying to reach a remote village
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Magic Minute Sucked Right In By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // When I was a young, naive telegram boy, a scruffy looking guy sidled up to me and surreptitiously flashed a great wad of 20 pound notes. On reflection, it was probably just one note wrapped around something. Anyway, he furtively whispered, “Norval Boy in
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Magic Minute Teenage Humanity By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // It was a blazing summer’s day and Ingred was enjoying a refreshing ice cream in Munich Central Square. The only problem was it was dripping all over her so she turned to a nearby rubbish bin to finish eating the messy ice cream over it.
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Magic Minute Washing Machine Madness! By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // Remember the days when you first left home trying to find your way? Well I found myself in a share house with my mate Joe and the bane of our life was our old washing machine which lived in the kitchen. And I’m not
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Magic Minute Back With The Living By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // With minutes to spare 19-year-old Elissa never knew the unsung hero who found her semic-conscious on the floor of her flat and dialled triple O, saving her from a deadly aneurysm. Nor was she cognizant of her mother sitting vigil as she clung
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Magic Minute The Disappearing Kitchen By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // My unforgettable single mother was an uncanny version of Ma Kettle. Like her namesake her bringing up five unruly kids in the 1960s was very rough and ready. One day I’d slung some beetroot at my teasing brother staining the kitchen door. And we
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Magic Minute All That Glitters By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // Ever been enticed by something irresistibly beautiful? I was around 8 years old and totally entranced by a large golden orange fish casually swimming in a pond as part of the Kannonook Creek, recently flushed and replenished by a massive pump from Port Philip
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Magic Minute 17,000 Feet and Falling! By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // A tremendous explosion blew flight Lieutenant Neil Lindsay out into space through a gaping hole in the Lancaster’s fuselage, the plane a raging blaze. His parachute unstable, he was now 17,000 ft above enemy territory and falling fast with the Germans already taking
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