Another day in paradise

I fly back from Sydney every Friday evening into Brisbane after a week of the big smoke - Its like a arriving in a mini Las Vegas with it’s lights and the skyline of  modern hotels and offices, hence the BrisVegas title given to it by interstaters I suppose! Either that or it’s because you gamble with getting skin cancer every day. Its really quite beautiful though, with its mini Forth Bridge spanning the Brisbane river.  However, 2 years ago, I used to fly in just as the city was in the throws of its afternoon storms - massive clouds and fantastic electrical storms breaking over the city. Now - nothing. No storms - no rain.

Obviously being a sensitve, caring world citizen concerned on the issues relating to global warming I would like to add that the climate is being a real pain in the hip pocket in Queensland quite frankly!

Last year, I spent a bloody fortune putting down this amazing lawn and installing a 10 metre pool in the garden last year. This morning I got up and the grass is a gorgeous gold, all withered and dead, the pool is drying up, the fruit trees are cactus and the bloody house is built on millions of years of clay that is now contracting.

If it carries on like this, we’ll have a bungalow pretty shortly and all the wild animals will be fighting over the sludge at the bottom of a rather expensive watering hole!

We’re on Level5 water restrictions now, which means you can only have 4 minute showers, you have to turn your taps off when brushing your teeth and you can’t use more than 140 litres per day for household and garden use - or the council drag you into the street for a public flogging.

I’ve got 4 kids - try keeping a family of 6 Scots cool and clean when their idea of a hot summer previously was a fortnight in a pair of speedos by a pool in 22 degrees. Now we have to function in 40 degree heat, 90 percent humidity and wear work and school clothes! Thank god we’re moving to Sydney in June. 

And today, I read that all the fruit and vegies are going up cause the farmers can’t water this years crops.  Would hate to be a vegetarian.

Anyway, maybe it’s not just the pool thats being a bit shallow….