Was listening to a programme today about a big bush fire that encroached upon the outer suburbs of Canberra in 2004, killing 4 and burning 500 houses just like that. Very dry conditions.

Today water rationing is common regards their gardens. Things are pretty desperate out there. Queensland is looking into a desalination plant because their water problems are so bad. Basically more and more of Australia is turning into desert.

Funny you should say that. Today a friend was telling me about the 1940’s weekend she’d just been to in Haworth and she said it was a “right-proper” step back in time. The camaraderie atmosphere was captured with great authenticity and there were many conversations about how people “made do” back then and got by with the little that was available to them. But then, that 1940’s generation had never experienced the throwaway, mod-con, instant gratification lifestyle that we are living today and I think it’s going to be a lot harder for the current generation to adapt to a ‘wartime’ lifestyle than it was for them.

I have to say, when I’m stuck in traffic watching all the other car-users, there’s not a day goes by that I don’t think it’s all going to burst one day. It’s just so unsustainable.