“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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07 January 2015

PLAY IT COOL AT PARACOMBE


Having had wildfire blazing on various sides of their Paracombe Winery and Vineyards for five days now, Paul and Kathy Drogemuller and family posted this on their website this morning. Be sure you make that booking!

This photo below is by Moira Fahey, writer/producer/director at 1000 Productions. For over a decade, Moira has studied the worst Australian conflagrations of the last century, making remarkable educational documentaries for firefighting authorities. She has interviewed survivors of every major bushfire from the 1938-39 Black Friday tragedy in Victoria, through the 1967 Black Tuesday in Tasmania to the Western Australian 1961 blaze, which destroyed 1.8 million hectares. And this is the sky over her own front veranda on Saturday. This is at Woodside, the heart of premium Adelaide Hills viticulture.

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