#John Pascoe

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In 2017, a couple in California survived a wildfire by jumping into a neighbor's pool and staying submerged for six hours. They surfaced only for air and used wet T-shirts to shield their faces from falling embers.

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John Dobree Pascoe (1908-1972)

Two horse cart crossing the Rakaia River

NZ 1940s.

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Silver case pocket watch, made for Royal Navy Captain John Pasco, London 1783

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John Cooper Clarke and Amelia Lily talk guinea pigs - Never Mind the Buzzcocks

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Jane visits an incredible centenarian whose life-long love of gardening keeps her active at home and in the community.

Jane visits Nance Esmore, a truly remarkable woman who recently celebrated her 101st birthday. Over the years she's gathered a lifetime's worth of plant knowledge, and with help, she independently lives in the same house and garden that she's looked after for over 50 years. Her vast collection includes award-winning orchids, bromeliads, bulbs, succulents, cyclamen, rhipsalis and tillandsias.

One of Nance's larger specimens is a tillandsia, estimated to be 35 years old. It is growing in a pipe drilled with holes by her husband. Another, over 20 years old, was sewn onto a little wire basket. Tillandsias generally prefer warm climates so the fact that Nance has so many mature specimens growing outdoors in Melbourne is no mean feat. For tips on tillandsia care, Nance says, "in the summer I just give them a sprinkle with the hose… every now and then I get a styrofoam box without holes, and I fill it with a weak solution and dunk them in, sometimes for half a day… They like east facing, they don't like west sun because it does burn them. Sometimes when we have a very hot day, I will throw a piece of old towel over to protect them." When choosing vigorous growers for cooler climates, go for Tillandsia bergeri and Tillandsia 'Cotton Candy'.

Nance's garden is filled with baskets, shade houses and structures made by her husband who was an engineer. Nance says he made "everything. All the hooks, he made so many things. Hangers, if you see a hanger somewhere he made them all." Under the shade of her towering Lophostemen tree is a collection of interesting plants which are decades old, including a rope hoya, the string of dolphins, and a very rare specimen the Ceropegia ampliata named bishops crown for the shape of its flower. Nance says, "I have 76 baskets hanging up in this tree. You wouldn't believe how… I'd put a pebble in the toe of a panty hose, and I would throw it over a limb, and I'd think, I can hang a basket there." Always having a flare for unusual plants Nance's involvement in the Melbourne plant scene really took off when she retired from work and joined several gardening clubs over 40 years ago. "You're never too old to learn and you learn so much from going to the garden clubs," says Nance who has made life-long friends through this connection. "You meet a lot of lovely people; I think gardeners are friendly people."

Upstairs Nance has a collection of ribbons, medals and awards from competitive garden shows including her enormous award-winning cataleya orchid, completely covered in textbook pink blooms. The most prestigious medal awarded to Nance is from the Royal Horticultural Society Victoria; the John Pascoe Fawkner medal. Jane recognises this as the highest in horticulture. Nance says, "I always wanted to be around the garden. I had a patch from when I was about five or six. You come out into the garden you forget everything. It's a therapy, I feel it's a therapy." And although she is now legally blind, Nance is in the garden every day. Nance says, "I can't see it much, but I just come down and potter around and look at this and look at that. It's really healthy for you."

Through her years of wisdom, Nance offers this advice to new gardeners starting out; "If they've got a small balcony, just a few pots, that's how I started out. And you know what, it just grows on you." Nance generously offers Jane a cutting from her tillandsia and says, "you can put that on a mount… and then you tie (the roots) down, so it holds firm… and that's in memory of my garden." Jane has known Nance several years and will treasure this specimen. Jane says, "I've always been fascinated by plants and by the people who care for them and isn't Nance an absolute legend. Her garden reads like an autobiography of a life very well lived; surrounded by plants, in good health, and doing something that you love."

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When your ex-friend is a piece of garbage, and you have the receipts to prove it.

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Demri Layne 2013 Riesling, Columbia Valley, $9

December 29, 2014 by Great Northwest Wine 

Best Buy! The expanding Claar Wine Group in Pasco, Wash., launched this consumer-priced line last year from their remarkable combination of newlywed winemaker Joe Hudon and their estate White Bluffs Vineyard. The grapes are grown Salmon-Safe and were harvested Oct. 13 at less than 22 Brix. The nose is akin to walking through an orchard with hints of pear and Granny Smith apple, but there’s also a tropical note with lime zest. It’s much more tropical on the palate with hints of papaya, orange and Juicy Fruit Gum, yet there’s a good balance to the 2.0% residual sugar with lemony acidity and pleasing bitterness. The wines are distributed in Washington, Oregon, California and Alaska.

Rating: Outstanding!

Production: 1,028 cases

Alcohol: 12.1%

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wagner, tony palmer 1983

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The King's Christmas Pudding

The idea of writing down a set of instructions telling you how to prepare and cook a particular food goes back a long way, almost as far back as the process of writing itself. The oldest surviving recipes of all were inscribed on clay tablets in ancient Mesopotamia nearly 4000 years ago, recording lists of ingredients in spidery cuneiform script that look today like a chook jumped straight out of…

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John warned that the fuel reduction burning had been 'completely inadequate, with the result that we are now sitting on the biggest time bomb that East Gippsland has faced, because of the massive fuel loads'.

"Country: Future Fire, Future Farming" - Bill Gammage and Bruce Pascoe

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South of Mount Barker (WA) in the 1830s, John Lort Stokes

met a party of natives engaged in burning the bush, which they do in sections every year. The dexterity with which they manage so proverbially a dangerous agent as fire is indeed astonishing. Those to whom this duty is especially entrusted, and who guide or stop the running flame, are armed with large green boughs, with which, if it moves in the wrong direction, they beat it out . . . I can conceive no finer subject for a picture than a party of these swarthy beings engaged in kindling, moderating, and directing the destructive element, which under their care seems almost to change its nature, acquiring, as it were, complete docility, instead of the ungovernable fury we are accustomed to ascribe to it.⁵

Such skills are for docile fire only. They are largely useless against today's infernos.

5. Nov 1840. John Lort Stokes, Discoveries in Australia, vol. 2, Libraries Board of South Australia, Adelaide, [1846] 1969, p. 228.

"Country: Future Fire, Future Farming" - Bill Gammage and Bruce Pascoe

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Vivaldi's Ercole sul Termodonte, dir. John Pascoe (Festival di Spoleto, 2006) (x)

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Ten facts about the Battle of Trafalgar:

– The youngest sailor to fight at Trafalgar was just 8 years old.

– The oldest was 68.

– A woman called Jane Townshend was onboard one of the ships at Trafalgar and was recommended for a medal for “useful services”.

– Arctic explorer John Franklin was signal Midshipman aboard HMS Bellerophon at Trafalgar.

– Nelson originally wanted “Nelson confides every man to do his duty” displayed as a signal to all ships, but his Signal Lieutenant, John Pascoe, said it would be easier to spell out “expects”.

– Midshipman John Pollard is famed as “the man who shot the man who shot Nelson”.

– One sixth of the Royal Navy’s entire force of 110,000 men fought in the battle.

– Nearly 4,000 of the crews had never been to sea before.

– There were 3,500 Irishmen fighting in the British side at Trafalgar.

– There are records of Chinese, African and American men in the British crews.

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Wood Engraving Wednesday

RICHARD WAGENER

Today we present three wood engravings by Northern California engraver and fine press publisher Richard Wagener (b. 1944). Wagener has an undergraduate degree from the University of San Diego and a graduate degree from ArtCenter College of Design. He has been engraving wood for over forty years and his work has been in a number of fine press editions, most notably with Peter Koch in Berkeley and the Book Club of California. In 2006 Wagener established his imprint Mixolydian Editions, to publish fine press editions of his own work, and Magnolia Editions, a fine art print studio in Oakland, California, providing artists with technical expertise and access to advanced printmaking tools. His collaboration with David Pascoe of Nawakum Press earned them the 2016 Carl Hertzog Award for Excellence in Book Design, and Wagener was also awarded the 2016 Oscar Lewis Award for contributions to the book arts.

The prints shown here are from broadsides included in portfolios of the deluxe editions of Parenthesis. Journal of the Fine Press Book Association. The first, a 2000 engraving entitled Euphorbia halipedicola, was printed at Wagener's Mixolydian Editions in 2015 with Bruce Whiteman's 2002 text Succulent for the portfolio of Parenthesis 29, Autumn 2015. The next two were printed for the portfolio of Parenthesis 24, Autumn 2013: the first, Outlook Juniper (2009) was printed with a text by John Muir at the Havilah Press in Emeryville, California; the next, Koch Peak, with a text by Peter Koch, was printed by Wagener in an edition of 175 copies.

Our run of Parenthesis is another donation from the estate of our dear friend Dennis Bayuzick.  

View other books from the collection of Dennis Bayuzick. 

View more posts with wood engravings!

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The Three Musketeers - BBC - November 13, 1966 - January 15, 1967

Drama (10 episodes)

Running Time: 30 minutes

Stars:

Jeremy Brett as D'Artagnan

Brian Blessed as Porthos

Jeremy Young as Athos

Gary Watson as Aramis

Mary Peach as Milady de Winter

Patrick Holt as Lord de Winter

Richard Pasco as Cardinal Richelieu

Edward Brayshaw as Rochefort

Billy Hamon as Planchet

Milton Johns as Grimaud

Kathleen Breck as Madame Constance Bonacieux

Michael Miller as M. de Treville

Simon Oates as Duke of Buckingham

Carole Potter as Anne of Austria