“Sod the wine, I want to suck on the writing. This man White is an instinctive writer, bloody rare to find one who actually pulls it off, as in still gets a meaning across with concision. Sharp arbitrage of speed and risk, closest thing I can think of to Cicero’s ‘motus continuum animi.’

Probably takes a drink or two to connect like that: he literally paints his senses on the page.”


DBC Pierre (Vernon God Little, Ludmila’s Broken English, Lights Out In Wonderland ... Winner: Booker prize; Whitbread prize; Bollinger Wodehouse Everyman prize; James Joyce Award from the Literary & Historical Society of University College Dublin)


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20 December 2014

BUSHFIRE TIME: BE VERY AWARE!!!

Some strange digifractals going down in this image ... it came from the Yangarra Estate/Country Fire Service bushfire drill practice and emergency protocols workshop at the winery before last summer hit. Be very careful visiting wineries this summer: there's a lot of bone dry vegetable  fuel about, and yes, vineyards DO burn! ... snaps below from the Currency Creek fire last summer ... the undervine mulch burned, and once the power was down and the water ceased flowing, the dripper lines acted like cordite fuses in some places ... this vineyard died, and was later uprooted ... all photos by Philip White

 

  

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

So was your local firebug there Philip?

December 22, 2014 at 4:12 PM

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