Post-summer cooling off strategies: Vol. 1

Posted by Sash (Adelaide, Australia) on 18 March 2008 in People & Portrait and Portfolio.

We were driving to Melbourne when the heat finally sapped the last iota of energy from within. As we risked third-degree burns through our miserly footwear, which was probably glued together by a nine-year-old sole income earner with eighteen dependants, working in a searing furnace no bigger than an oversized shoe box on the outskirts of Beijing's light industrial district, we found the hallowed turf of a park in Horsham, Victoria. From memory, angels hummed with glee as they hoisted us over the ignited tarmac using the infrequently written about sense of reverse perception.

As the family esky was devoid of cloudy but perfectly chilled fluid de amber that had somehow, inexplicably it would now appear, manifested itself purely in the recesses of my memory, we were left without choice, thereby opting for the next best thing: H2O.

The kid, who had tailed us expertly in an unmarked ice-cream van for several hundred kilometres, was the first to feel the side effects of this most sought after mind-altering liquid substance.

Go kid, go.

* Did anyone spot the pun?

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