"Farm1" please@askifyouwannaknow wrote in message
...
.. i mean, sydney people (and those
in
other places) have been experiencing the reality of water shortages
for 5
years, haven't they?

Oh come on! Sydney people wouldn't know a water shortage if it bit
them on the arse. They only think they do.

dude, they know. they don't "know" in the sense of "being deeply affected by
economically", but they, obviously, know. it's ludicrous to suggest
otherwise when it's been a hot topic for many years now, & i was living
there when it first all blew up. again, just because most of them don't rely
on rainfall to make a living does not make the awareness any less acute.
(snip)

I suggest you do two things. Do some reading up on P.A. Yeomans. He
was a farmer whose published material goes back to the mid 1950s. The
second thing is to look at the 2006-07 copy of the ABCs "Open Garden
Scheme", page 22 on Lyndfield Park. That farmer started work on his
farm in 1982 and even then what he was doing was not unique. All that
knowledge was around even then.

frankly i'm a bit amazed at how combative your response is, and the way you
feel it's all right to generalise about witless cityfolk where it's not all
right for people to make statements they acknowledge are general(?)

i'm not sure where you might have got the idea that i'm painting country
people as dimwits when i'm _obviously_ not.
kylie