Summer 2007-08

Looking back that far, just about all I can remember about last summer was DROUGHT. Now drought is as much a part of life for this driest state in the driest continent on earth as the seasons, however those South Australians living in Adelaide (almost all of us) have lived oblivious to this fact for almost our whole life, thanks to some of the worlds “best” water storage and irrigation systems. This has meant that, despite the fact that South-Eastern Australia’s only major river system is dying a horrible death in Australia’s worst drought on record, we in Adelaide managed to get away with only level 3 water restrictions, unlike those in the Eastern states, who were at about level 500, as the media would have you understand. On the other hand, they actually got some rain.

Yep, my major memories of last summer are getting up at 6 every Saturday for our 3 rationed hours of water, and hand watering, Fela on hip, our 900square metres of garden. Now I would say I did a reasonable job, letting only those plants who were marked to die do so, but it didn’t stop the place looking like a nuclear bomb had gone off nearby, as my brother put it when he visited our new beautiful home in February (before, I might add, the record breaking 15 days over 35 as we went into “autumn” - the death nail for so many of our “green” leafy friends)















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