"Chookie" wrote in message
"Farm1" please@askifyouwannaknow wrote:

Truth be told, there are probably too many people in Sydney who
don't 'think about things' because they are trying to keep their
heads
above (metaphorical) water of some kind. I work in TAFE and I
see these
people.

You mean you have such things as TAFEs within easy access?

THere is actually a TAFE in my suburb, but I don't work there. I
have a
45-min drive through Sydney traffic to get to mine... is that 'easy
access'?
:-)

Well perhaps you should have tried to get a job in the TAFE closer to
home :-))

Of course all of Sydney is not posh but at least it has such
things as
hospitals and schools and police stations and all sorts of other
services. On a platter.

Most large (and even small) country towns will have those things.
You must be
pretty remote if you don't have a TAFE within reach.

Within reach of course but not as close as within anything equating to
your suburb. And the nearest one shut down its rural studies and that
is now a good hour and a half away at 100 kms/hr.

The city people are very busy and talk lots (and
that is even the ones I know and love) but they really don't
observe
too well. Too many fleeting glimpses or thoughts and not enough
cogitation before saying or half thinking about soemthing before
heading off to the next social engagement or need for busyness.

shrug
You can find that anywhere. One of my online friends from rural
SA -- a
district with maybe 1000 people in it -- mentioned a relative who
seems to be
all style and no substance.

That comment instantly brought to mind a woman who moved here from
Mosman. :-)) We all reckon that she'll be off like a shot to the city
again when her husband drops dead. She has brought style to her house
though.

With two small boys, I'm perhaps a bit lacking in the social
engagements dept.
It's funny getting the Herald 'subscriber benefits' e-mail. Gosh,
I'm missing
out on dinner with Lord Wedgwood this time. Or should I say *he* is
missing
out on dinner with *me*?!

Defintitely the latter. Much more interesting than the normal toadies
I'd expect.

The question is: what did they DO about it? For example,
farmers
were still *clearing* the WA wheat area in the 1920s. The
plantings/
earthworks I saw were, I would estimate, ten years old. Bit of
a gap there.

Yes, I agree. But to solve dryland salinity and all sorts of
other
land related problems is not one where a quick solution or rushing
in
and doing anything and/or everything will always work. It was
many
years before it was found that the way to treat erosion was to
treat
the head of the erosion and not the body of the erosion.

Not only that -- you have to find the limits of your solution, eg
you might
find a solution that is fine in terms of your own climate/soil etc,
but it
might not be appropriate elsewhere. And the information has to be
passed
around and retested, too.

Yeah. Pity one size doesn't fit all every time. It'd make life
easier.