ONE OF THE OTHER SUPPERS

Annika Berlingieri, Ann Marie Shin, Mick Wordley, Robyn Wordley and Alison Hodder obviously discussing the new season tomatoes in the Wordley Tortilla Flats organoleptophotosonic ghetto developing there  between the Aldinga Scrub and the Gulf St Vincent ... photo©Philip White ... I'm sure Milton Wordley will soon explain to greater degree on his blog the disgusting gastronomic fantasies we committed to the gizzard when the whole dozen of us got settled at that table within ... jus skitin ... these were the runniest stars ... this photo©Milton Wordley

... to read Milton's interview with the remarkable Alison, a Roseworthy graduate who after an amazing life makes Shiraz in Tuscany, pour a big one and settle here ... in case he doesn't get the time to post it, here's his photograph of Alison's partner Claudio Berlingieri with Robyn and Ann Marie ... Robyn and Mick made that deadly food, Claudio carved

Alison and Claudio on my veranda: only one I know with Etruscan pillars supporting beautiful old bullnose galvo to put a petticoat on what is simply a hand-made four-room ironstone cottage with native pine floors ... if Greg Trott were alive I'd sit him down here and discuss that column's very strange and beautiful testimony for the Italian influence in the colonial culture of the Willunga Embayment and its environs, a.k.a. McLaren Vale, for decades. Here's my take on Alison and Claudio's recent blessings.