that's life (March 2020)

Great idea


Uncooked croquettes can
be made up to one day
ahead. Keep, covered,
in the fridge. In between
cooking croquettes in
batches, keep them
warm on an oven tray in
a very slow oven (120°C).

































































MUSHROOM AND POTATO CROQUETTES

MAKES 14 1 tblsp olive oil Refrigerate until cold. hands, shape ¼ cups of
PREP AND COOK: 3 00g cup mushrooms, 2 Heat oil in a large frying mixture into croquettes.
1 HOUR, 5 MINS finely chopped pan over a high heat. Add Dust in flour. Dip in eggs.
½ cup plain flour 2 cloves garlic, crushed mushrooms and garlic. Coat in breadcrumbs.
2 eggs, lightly beaten 3 green spring onions, Cook, stirring occasionally, 5 Heat enough oil in a
1 ½ cups packaged dried finely chopped until soft and liquid has large, deep frying pan over
breadcrumbs ⅓ cup coarsely chopped evaporated. Transfer to a medium heat to shallow-
Vegetable oil, to shallow fry fresh basil a bowl. Refrigerate, fry. Add the croquettes in
G arlic aioli and mixed salad 1 egg, lightly beaten covered until cold. three batches. Shallow-fry,
leaves with shredded 3 Add the mushrooms, turning occasionally for
beetroot, to serve 1 To make croquettes, onions, basil and egg about 4 to 5 minutes, or
CROQUETTES cook potatoes in a large to the potato. Season until golden. Drain on
7 50g medium Desiree saucepan of boiling, salted with salt and pepper. absorbent kitchen paper.
potatoes (about 5), water until tender. Drain. Mix well to combine. 6 Serve with garlic aioli and
peeled, chopped Mash until smooth. Cover. 4 Using clean, damp salad leaves with beetroot.



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Great idea SESAME BROCCOLI AND

CASHEW NOODLE STIR-FRY
Before cooking fritters,
make sure the pan is
SERVES 4 1 Cut small florets from
over a medium to low
PREP AND COOK: broccoli. Trim stem, halve
heat so that they don’t
20 MINS and thinly slice.
burn. Keep fritters
500g piece broccoli 2 Prepare noodles according
warm in a very slow
oven (100°C). 4 00g packet shelf-fresh to packet directions. Drain.
wholegrain noodles Cover to keep warm.
1 tblsp vegetable oil 3 Heat vegetable oil in a wok
2 carrots, peeled, cut into thin over a high heat until very
matchsticks hot. Add broccoli and
½ cup roasted garlic and soy carrots. Stir-fry for about
marinade sauce 3 to 5 minutes, or until
1 cup roasted unsalted cashews almost tender.
(160g) 4 Add sauce, cashews, seeds
1 tblsp sesame seeds, and sesame oil. Stir-fry until
toasted hot. Add noodles and half
1 tblsp sesame oil the onions. Stir-fry until hot.
6 green spring onions, 5 Serve sprinkled with
thinly sliced remaining onions.


































SPINACH AND COTTAGE

CHEESE FRITTERS

SERVES 4 pepper. Mix well.
PREP AND COOK: 2 Heat an oiled, large,
25 MINS non-stick frying pan over a
250g tub cottage cheese medium to low heat. Add ⅓
½ cup shredded parmesan cup of the mixture. Spread
3 eggs, lightly beaten evenly to about 10cm in
1 cup self-raising flour diameter. Repeat to make
½ cup milk another three fritters.
150g baby spinach leaves 3 Cook for 2 minutes. Turn
2 50g punnet cherry tomatoes, over. Cook for a further 2 to
halved 3 minutes, or until golden
1 avocado, chopped brown. Remove from pan.
B ottled balsamic glaze, Repeat with remaining
to serve mixture to make eight Tip tip
fritters in total. Toast sesame
1 Place cottage cheese, 4 Combine tomatoes, seeds in the wok
parmesan, eggs, flour avocado and remaining over a medium
and milk in a large bowl. spinach in a medium bowl. heat before
Stir in 60g of the spinach. Drizzle with glaze. cooking stir-fry.
Season with salt and 5 Serve fritters with salad.



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Karen Buckley
Food Editor

While in season make the most of


these beautifully sweet summer fruits
Tip

Clafoutis is best made
close to serving.
Replace fresh plums
with other stone fruits,
such as nectarines,
peaches or cherries,
for a change.















PLUM CLAFOUTIS


SERVES 6
PREP AND COOK:
1 HOUR, 5 MINS
25g unsalted butter, melted
2 tblsps caster sugar
6 medium blood plums (800g), halved,
stones removed
2 cups pure cream
6 eggs
¾ cup plain flour
Extra ¾ cup caster sugar
½ cup flaked almonds
Icing sugar mixture and vanilla
ice-cream, to serve


1 Brush butter over base and
side of an ovenproof dish (10-cup
capacity). Sprinkle sugar over
base and side, shaking dish KAREN’S QUICK TIPS:
to coat. Discard any excess
sugar. Arrange plums, cut-side MAKING THE PERFECT OMELETTE
up, over base of dish.
2 Whisk cream and eggs in a large Prepare filling push cooked portions
jug until combined. Add flour and ingredients before towards centre using
extra sugar. Whisk until smooth. starting, as omelettes an egg flip so raw
Carefully pour over plums. Scatter cook quickly. It’s best egg can reach the hot
over almonds. to use a non-stick pan. Continue to push
3 Cook in a moderate oven (180°C) frying pan (23cm to cooked egg in until top
for about 40 to 50 minutes, or until 30cm) and heat over is almost set before
golden and just firm in the centre. a medium to high heat adding filling. Once
4 Serve warm clafoutis dusted before you cook. Once added and omelette
with sifted icing sugar and eggs have started to is folded over, slide
ice-cream. set around the edges, onto a plate to serve.


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‘Cut a cauliflower into florets.’ This INTHE KIT
is a common instruction in recipes,
so we’ll give you the run-down
on how to do it with ease! Using
a sharp knife, cut away the outer
green leaves, tough stems and base
from the cauliflower. Starting from
the side, cut a few centimetres
up the base of each stem of each
flower head to separate it, working
your way towards the centre of the
cauliflower. These are called large
florets. For small florets, simply cut
the large florets into small pieces
with some of the stem still attached.














































MICROGREENS



Give your home-cooked meals restaurant
quality appeal with microgreens. This
vegetable confetti comes in a variety of NECTARINE AND ALMOND MUFFINS
your regular leafy greens – we tried the
basil, coriander and rocket microgreens. MAKES 12 2 tsps vanilla extract in the centre. Add
They make any dish look exciting and PREP AND 2 ripe nectarines (125g butter, sour cream,
you can create an elegant salad with COOK: 40 MINS each), stones removed, eggs, lemon zest
them too. Try growing your own o or 1 ¼ cups self-raising cut into 1½cm pieces and vanilla. Stir to
small punnets can be purchased flour Extra 2 tsps caster sugar combine. Stir in
from major supermarkets. 1 cup almond meal half the nectarines.
1 cup caster sugar 1 Line a 12-hole 3 Divide mixture
1 25g unsalted butter, muffin pan (¹⁄ -cup evenly among muffin
³
melted capacity) with paper wraps (about ¹⁄ cup
³
½ cup sour cream muffin wraps in each). Spoon
2 eggs, lightly 2 Put flour, almond over the remaining
beaten meal and caster sugar nectarines. Sprinkle
2 tsps finely grated in a large bowl. Stir to with the extra sugar.
lemon zest combine. Make a well 4 Cook in a moderate

TCHEN 3 STEPS TO A CLEAN KETTLE










1. Cut a lemon into
large chunks and
place inside the kettle.
Q+A 2. Fill kettle with
THESE water and boil. Turn

off kettle and switch
SWEET FRUITY
CREATIONS off at the power point.
What are eschalots?
TASTE AS
3. Let the kettle stand
Eschalots are similar in overnight then rinse
GOOD AS THEY
appearance to very small out thoroughly in the
LOOK
morning. Discard
brown onions and have a
lemon
n.
papery reddish-brown skin.
They have a mild onion flavour
that produces a wonderful
flavour base when sautéed
gently in oil for voury
gently in oil for any sa
dish, soup
dish soup o o r pie.
Available
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FOUR INGRED IENT

ESPRESSO CHEESECAKES


SERVES 6 in a small bowl of an
PREP: 20 MINS electric mixer until
2 50g packet Arnott’s Choc smooth. Add ¾ cup
Ripple biscuits of the Coffee & Milk,
2 50g block cream cheese, reserving the rest for
chopped, at room another use. Beat until
temperature combined. Transfer
Great idea 3 85g can Nestlé Coffee to a large bowl.
& Milk 4 Pour ¾ cup of cream
3 00ml tub thickened into same, clean bowl
Muffins can be made up
cream of electric mixer.
to three days ahead. Store
in an airtight container in
Return remaining
the fridge. Reheat in the
1 Place six serving cream to fridge. Beat
microwave for 20 seconds
glasses (1-cup cream until soft peaks
before serving. Replace
capacity) on a tray. form. Fold into cream
nectarines with chopped
2 Put 10 biscuits in cheese mixture. Pour
plums or apricots.
a snap-lock bag and evenly over biscuits in
seal. Set aside 4 glasses. Refrigerate,
biscuits for decoration. covered, overnight.
oven (180°C) for about
Gently pound bagged 5 Before serving, beat
25 minutes, or until
biscuits with a rolling remaining cream in
golden and just firm
pin until lightly small bowl of electric
in centre, when lightly
crushed. Sprinkle mixer until soft peaks
touched with your
evenly into glasses. form. Dollop on top of
fingertips. Remove
Keep remaining biscuits cheesecakes. Decorate
from oven.
for another use. with reserved crushed
5 Serve the muffins
3 Beat cream cheese biscuits.
warm or at room
temperature.

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Dennis Ross,
my attacker SianDavies,33,neverimaginedhernewlovewouldhurther


S potting the and I loved to train with him thought. No, please…
handsome
at the gym.
When we got back to his
It was Dennis.
place later that day, the
In silence, he scoop
stranger’s biceps,
Within a month, I’d met
my stomach did a
back into his flat droopping
complete flip. his family. atmosphere was still frosty. me up and carried
One day in July 2017, we
Worried, I texted my mum
‘Sian, this is Dennis,’ my were at his nan’s house. to tell her about the shirt me in the hallway.
friend Lawrence said, Suddenly, Dennis’ temper incident. That’s when my woorld
introducing us. frayed. But when he saw the turned black.
It was April 2016 and I was ‘Did you forget to iron my phone in my hand, he flew When I woke up agaain,
having a party at my place. shirt?’ he yelled at his sweet into a fit of rage. I was in hospital.
Dennis, 33, was gorgeous nan, his face ‘I’ll throw ‘Oh, Sian,’ my mum,
and we soon became friends. full of anger. When he saw your mobile Sharon, 55, sobbed at my
my
He’d do odd jobs for me ‘I’ll do it out of the side. ‘We thought you
around the house and as a now,’ she said, the phone in window,’ were dead.’
single mum of two, an extra looking he said, a My whole body
pair of hands was welcome. terrified before my hand, he menacing look screamed in pain.
Then, one day in May 2017, she left the in his eye. ‘What happened?’
Dennis sent me a message. room to iron. flew into a fit I need to I murmured.
Let’s meet up, he said. I was so leave, I Mum told me when I
Going for drinks, I realised shocked. I’d of rage thought, hadn’t showed up at my
that I really liked him and we never seen this panicked. kids’ sports day and they
shared a kiss. side of him But before I couldn’t reach me they’d
And two weeks later, we before. could go anywhere, Dennis reported me missing.
were dating. What an extreme reaction slapped me across the face. Luckily, my kids had been
Dennis was a kickboxer, over a creased shirt, I Then he wrapped his with family.
hands around m eck, ‘Dennis attacked you,’
m
ueezing my thr t tight. Mum said, tearfully. ‘Police
‘This is what st ngling is,’ found you on Sunday lying
sneered at me s I on the bed, three days after
sped for air. you’d gone missing. Doctors
‘If you call the ice, I’ll said that if you’d been left
ll you,’ he smiled cruelly. another hour, you’d be dead.’
o-one will ever n d you.’ Horrified, I scoured my
ments late h released memory but came up blank.
s hands and wa ed off. Mum explained I’d been in
nsing my cha e to a coma for a week and half.
cape, I ran out the ‘Your nose was slit with a
artment and to rds the knife,’ doctors revealed. ‘He
trance, jumpin own also knocked out four of
me sta your teeth.’
d, the nd I’d been lying there AS TOLD TO NICOLA MOORS PHOTOS: HOTSPOT MEDIA
s kn d out me defenceless while he
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the or. While paramedics battled
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over. I even had to learn held my head high. arrived, they fo
how to walk again, by In December 2017, Dennis struggling to br
using a wheelchair and Ross, 37, appeared at Cardiff and covered he
a walking frame. Crown Court and pleaded in bruises. I’m lucky
After three weeks in guilty to attempted murder. The doctors hadn’t told to be
hospital, I was allowed home When officers arrived at me that I’d had rope alive
and moved in with Mum. his flat, he’d marks
‘I’m like a child again,’ claimed I’d With the love and around my
I sobbed. been attacked neck,
At this point I still hadn’t on a night out support of my cigarette
faced myself in a mirror, but and he was burns and
I couldn’t hide forever. caring for me. family,I’m trying bite marks
Taking a deep breath, But at court, on my armss.
Do you
I looked at my reflection. I discovered to move on I’d also want to share
I still suffererr
ff
Tears filled my eyes. It was the horrific suffered sixx I st il l su ff your incredible
worse than I’d imagined. truth. broken ribs, nightmares survival story? Tell
A large black scab covered Dennis had brought his kidney damage and had and I’m us at tl.features@
the left side of my face, nan over, saying she should pneumonia. mentally and pacificmags.
com.au
stretching from my eye to speak to me. All over a creased shirt. physically
the bottom of my ear. It was then that she’d When Dennis was jailed scarred from
Over the next month, I discovered me lying for life, with a minimum the attack.
couldn’t even bear to leave unconscious on the bed. of seven years and 140 But with the love and
the house. After Dennis turned on his days, I was overcome support of my family, I’m
And when I did go out, nan with a knife, she secretly with relief. trying to move on.
strangers stared at my called the police and said, I can get my life back, I’m just so thankful to
scabbed face. Determined, I ‘He’s going to kill me’. I thought. be alive. ●


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I pinch myself
We see Our home on that this is
incredible wheels my life
places













My van is
my castle



Jackiehada Bunnings Warehouse. retired people did. That, or problem finding work on the

Up until then, I’d become
young people who toured
road. Immediately a light
light-bulb resigned to spending the rest around for a few months in bulb went on in my head.
a clapped-out old van on a
As a freelance writer of
of my life home alone
momentwhile watching TV every night. shoestring budget. Not many years, I was used to
I’d only gone to the store
people like me, who were
working from home – all I
readingthemag to buy some parsley! somewhere in the middle. needed was my laptop!
It was on our first date,
One afternoon, I was
As for Gareth, he was
Jackie Norman, 46, tramping in the bush, that waiting for Gareth to get willing to do anything.
Somewhere in NZ! we discovered our shared home, when I glanced at the work, so could we!
If Vicky could make it
desire to travel.
latest copy of that’s life! on
W hat the hell are stopping us from doing it the kitchen table. waving the article under
The only thing that was
‘Look at this!’ I said,
Thumbing through the
you doing? the
was – well, everything!
mag, a story jumped out
Gareth’s nose as soon as he
voice inside my
I’d been a solo mum for
head yelled.
A smile quickly spread
I wasn’t quite sure. It was several years, struggling to about a lady named Vicky got home.
White, who had embarked
November 10, 2016, and I manage a mortgage on a new life on the road, across his face.
was standing on the front alone. living in a bus. ‘Let’s do it!’ he said.
deck of our empty house, With both my sons now Her situation could be After I put my house on
staring at what appeared to old enough to leave home, I mine! I thought. the market, it sold in an
be an impossible task. was juggling several jobs and Eighteen months after unbelievable nine hours.
Everything we had left in felt worn down to the point I heading off, Vicky was loving And just five weeks later,
the world was here. was a shadow of myself. every moment and
Now, we had to somehow Yet I still had 27 years until was having no
– miraculously – try and fit my mortgage was paid off!
it all into a tiny campervan, There’s got to be more to
our new, permanent home life than this, I thought.
on wheels. For years, I’d had a The house we
It felt surreal. Surely this pipedream of living a life left behind
couldn’t really be happening? of constant travel and
But it was – and all thanks never-ending
to an article in that’s life!. adventure.
My partner, Gareth, and But I thought seeing
I had met by chance, 18 the country that way
months earlier, in our local was something only
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life had known only a few days!
changed. The campground’s
I’d forgotten caretaker had become a dear
what it was like friend and his wife made me
to feel such a bouquet of flowers from
sheer joy. her garden, as well as a cake.
Three years on, ‘Get out and Amazingly, I found my
I am happier
than ever see this big, dress in an op shop for $30!
beautiful world!’ It was the perfect day.
Gareth and I hit the road. the change after losing I told my sons. ‘Don’t spend Three years on, we’ve
We had no plan, but it friends to illness. your life in one place! Don’t travelled from one end of NZ
didn’t matter – we had all the ‘Life really is too short,’ leave it as long as I did.’ to the other, twice, but we’re
time in the world. they told us. Almost a year into our far from finished and have
I imagined life on the road It especially made me travels, we were standing on no plans to stop.
would be quite isolated, but smile to see families a cliff looking out to sea I’ve even written a book
we soon discovered we had travelling with young when Gareth got down on about our adventure, called
become part of a whole new, children and one knee and My Van, My Castle, in the
even bigger community of homeschooling proposed. hope it will inspire others to
happy nomads! them along ‘Get out and He’d always follow their dreams, the way
Every day was a new the way. said he didn’t Vicky and tl! inspired us.
adventure and brought more ‘There’s no see the big believe in Everyone has fears and we
encounters with better school marriage and were no different, but taking
warm-hearted, than the beautiful world’ I was so that giant leap of faith was
colourful characters. school of life,’ shocked it was the best thing we ever did.
There were people they would a miracle I If we can do it, then
of all ages, from many proudly say. didn’t fall off! anyone can! ●
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Good mental health
Bibliotherapy is the act
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Reading has been shown
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of depression and panic
attacks.
2

Insomnia
Insomnia
Reading before bed can
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Reading is fantastic for
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on a day trip,’ disapproved of his vocation. ‘Miss,’ the woman cat? Who knows?’
Constable Riley See for yourself.’ corrected her. ‘And where were you
Jenson snorted, circling the Fur and feathers from ‘Miss Hall. We’re between 10pm and
body of taxidermist Martin ripped-open carcasses investigating the death of midnight?’ Karen asked.
Kline, lashed to a stand like covered the workshop floor. your neighbour, Mr Kline.’ ‘I get here at dawn to start
a gutted grizzly. Karen coughed as the The woman’s face fell. ‘He baking, Inspector. By 10pm,
A row of beady-eyed smell of formaldehyde hit is dead then? That’s sad.’ I’m home, asleep.’
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‘Quit the wisecracks, RJ, like the work ‘And how a thin-faced man was
this is a murder scene,’ of an animal ‘We’re did you labelling a parcel.
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Martin, as she exchanged Even dead investigating having a how can I help?’
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examiner Amy Levine. wouldn’t treat the death of business next He nodded and she
‘I’d estimate time of death this way. Who your neighbour, door?’ Riley explained the death.
somewhere between 10pm called it in?’ asked. ‘No!’ Larry exclaimed.
and midnight,’ Amy told her. Riley Mr Kline’ Anita took saw him only yesterday.
‘Knife to the gut. Shame checked his a pizza cutter customers weren’t liki the
he’s so skinny, a bit of body notes. ‘Woman and sliced smell from his worksh p, so
fat and he might’ve survived.’ called Anita Hall. through the I’d bought him an ext
She pointed to the curved Owns the bakery next puffy white mound with fan. In return, he’d ag d to
brown haft. door. Arrived for work at quick, deft strokes. stuff my mother’s Siamese.
‘Unusual handle. 6am and saw Mr Kline ‘Stuffing dead animals isn’t ‘Poor thing. It was 18,
One of his fleshing silhouetted in the my cup of tea but not so though. Lived a good life…’
tools, possibly…’ workshop doorway.’ different from stuffing a He patted the box on
‘Any prints ‘We’ll start there.’ turkey, I guess,’ she said. the counter.
to be found?’ Inside the bakery, ‘It didn’t affect your trade?’ ‘Miss Hall came by with
Karen asked. the smell was sweeter ‘No, everyone loves my some pastries, I believe,’
– cinnamon and spice pastries. Marty, too. I Riley said.
and all things nice. On dropped some in only Spark sniggered. ‘Marty
the cake counter was a stack yesterday. Larry Spark was had just been telling me
of cellophane bags and some there, moaning about the how Anita was a pest,
blue gloves. smell. Said it was stopping forever calling round “like
‘Through here,’ called a his customers buying his a lovesick kid”. I’m not sure
voice. bling. He owns Sparklers, if she overheard us.’
In a well-equipped kitchen, the jewellery store on the Karen spotted an air mail
a large, red-faced woman other side of Marty’s. I bet sticker on the box.
was kneading a vast pillow it was him.’ ‘May I see inside?’ she
of dough. ‘Mr Kline’s workshop asked. Larry lifted the lid to
is a mess, like someone reveal a glassy-eyed Siamese.
was searching for ‘Are those diamonds on its PHOTOS: GETTY IMAGES
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‘So if we opened up e cat with the idea – happy
we’d find nothing mor than to help. I certainly
stuffing inside?’ didn’t kill him.’
He paled. ‘Well, I, …’ ‘No,’ Karen murmured, ‘but feline carcasses, only that
Ri i e dress I think I know who did. We’ll the place was a mess.’ it all, said I was a ad old
label. ‘And y r h er’s deal with you later, Spark.’ Anita swallowed. spinster who liked
name is Andrew Anita was ‘You overheard Kline and own baking too mu h.
Spark?’ sugaring Spark talking about you, We scuffled and the
‘Look, ‘So you went doughnuts didn’t you, when you took in thing I knew he had a n ife
Andrew’s my when they the pastries?’ in his stomach.’
brother, okay? back after walked back ‘They were laughing, ‘But why did you lash him
He lives in closing hoping into the calling me a lovesick fool,’ to the stand?’ Riley pressed.
the UK. kitchen. she blurted. ‘Then I heard ‘He was a beast; did you
‘He’s a to steal the ‘Did you Spark talking to Marty about see what he was doing in
jeweller, too, arrest him?’ hiding jewels in the cat.’ there? It seemed
but struggling. jewels’ she asked. ‘So you went in all smiles appropriate,’ she said flatly.
So I said I’d Karen and gave him the pastries, ‘Since Spark had already
send him some ignored her. then went back after closing collected the cat, it was all
of my old stock. Only the ‘When my constable asked hoping to steal the jewels. for nothing anyway,’ Karen
import duties would have you what someone might’ve What happened?’ sighed. ‘Cuff her, constable,
wiped out any profit.’ been looking for in the ‘Marty was still there, then read her her rights.’ ●
‘So you decided to workshop, you said, “in a working late. I confronted By Christine Sutton
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SPOOKY story




W hat’s that on my Sophie laid
leg?’ I cried.
A black mark
had appeared.
Looking closer, it was black down the
old-fashioned letters, just law with
below my knee cap, and they
spelled out the word DIE. her ghost
Where on earth had it
come from?
‘That’s weird,’ said my
mate Jodie, who was visiting.
‘You couldn’t have knelt on
some print – it would have
been backwards!’
It was a puzzle, and I was
a bit scared.
I’d only just moved into
the old house.
Suddenly, as Jodie was
stirring food on the cooktop,
it exploded and a fireball
flew towards her face. THE HAUNTED
‘Ouch!’ she screamed.
Luckily she wasn’t burnt.
Next, my gas heater
exploded next to me and
later, when I popped the BATHROOM
hood of my car to top up the
oil, the engine blew up into
my face. was a crash in the bathroom. she wailed.
But the engine was cold! Rushing in, his toiletry bag Terrified, they stayed in
On both occasions I was had been thrown across the my bed as Ali growled at
okay, but shaken. room so hard that everything the door all night.
Someone here doesn’t like was smashed, including his Soon after that, I saw a I had to tell
the spirit
me, I thought. contact lens medium. my rules
I began hearing footsteps case and ‘You live
and a mocking laughter in bottle of ‘You live with with an evil floated from the lounge room
the house. aftershave. an evil spirit spirit who to above my bed.
Finally I’d had enough. ‘Something wants to kill What the…? I thought,
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one night. ‘So I have three me here,’ exclaimed. Then the balloons started
rules. Don’t ever reveal Mark said. kill you. Please ‘Please don’t hitting me.
yourself unless I have a Then we go home!’ ‘Leave me alone!’ I yelled.
friend here, don’t break my heard a creepy don’t go home!’ Horrified, I Petrified, I called Ben who
things and don’t hurt me!’ hissing noise rang my dad, came home and put them in
One night my friend Mark coming from a natural healer the bin outside.
was staying when there the bathroom. with psychic medium Had a spirit followed me to
Reluctantly, Mark abilities. our new place?
Me in the car that went back in. ‘Dad, can you get rid of That was a year ago, and
was also haunted
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before. The right word to the wrong
person facilitates the best comeback.
LUCKY NUMBERS 6,18,40


Taurus Apr 21 – May 21
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least you show up for
outdoor activities, home
duties or work functions s
when others don’t. Given this, don’t
miss Thursday’s romantically tinged
event. Set boundaries with a new
neighbour or old friend on Wednesday.
LUCKY NUMBERS 22,28,37
Leo Jul 24 – Aug 23 Sagittarius Nov 23 – Dec 21
Gemini May 22 – Jun 21 Gently move a few Totally over losing in love,
If people in your network, centimetres to the left, Leo. leaving your lover or not
r
family or household have Be more flexible within your feeling loved-up? A warm
t
the nerve to say you aren’t living quarters, with family change is coming – complete
giving 100 per cent, members or a romantic celebration. with a reunion or reconciliation. Your
schedule a meeting or lunch. Check a Trading, selling or buying has its pitfalls sense of self-worth blossoms – but be
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car item, household appliance or garden – but you’re rocking it on Monday. mindful of ignoring those physical issues.
gadget has been tested before purchasing. LUCKY NUMBERS 19,23,35 LUCKY NUMBERS 25,28,39
LUCKY NUMBERS 16,42,44
Virgo Aug 24 – Sep 23 Capricorn Dec 22 – Jan 20
Cancer Jun 22 – Jul 23 Not long now before you Seeking more closeness,
Give it a crack, Cancer. face off with someone Capricorn? Then don’t mincee
Sitting on a banging idea, you’ve never met. The truth your words when telling
h
amazing affiliation or will be in the looking. It’s someone how you feel when they
proven theme will only got to be the best body booster, say or act a particular way. The price
keep your life suspended. Time to child-care contraption or puppy-proof paid for a private property or family
move on these scary items that are paraphernalia you’ve discovered. business is close to perfect.
part of your future. Simply smoulder LUCKY NUMBERS 15,27,41 LUCKY NUMBERS 2,7,13
at Saturday’s social event.
NUMBERS
1,
LUCKY NUMBERS 1 3 9 Libra Sep 24 – Oct 23 Aquarius Jan 21 – Feb 19
UCKY
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3,
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new developments have you patting yourself on the back for
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so hooked, nothing else matters. Think career movement, personal progress or
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you have found ‘the one’, Libra? Sunday family growth. Eliminating something from
could cement this in gold or diamonds. your diet is a wonderful body re-shaper.
LUCKY NUMBERS 26,32,43 LUCKY NUMBERS 12,24,36
Scorpio Oct 24 – Nov 22 Pisces Feb 20 – Mar 20
If you want a loved one’s Anything but dealing with
response to be rational and your mother-in-law, ex-
supportive, take a deep partner or step-child, you
breath before delivering that say! There is a silver lining in
n
lecture, spiteful speech or text. this connection you won’t expect. If it
Your relationship with food, drink helps the environment, buy the bruised
or money does a healthy 180. bananas and encourage more greenery.
LUCKY NUMBERS 4,8,34 LUCKY NUMBERS 11,21,33


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