“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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30 June 2017

IRONHEART NEEDS RAIN, NOT FROST

Frost this morning ... Mount Lofty lost in the fog ... after the driest June on record we need a damn lot more than frost ... Ironheart Vineyard has been mechanically barrel-pruned and is ready for the hand-pruners to go in and do the fine-tuning ... the sheep have done a good job with the weeds and the lambing's done; lots of twins ... photos Philip White 
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