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Water restrictions and gardens
"0tterbot" wrote in message
"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) Well they know is a very, very limited sense. And that sense is that they are now talking of the need to get MORE water for Sydney. And taking it from further and further way, like the Shoalhaven River. The bloody Shoalhaven for God's sake! If they had any clues of the impact of their gawping needs they should (but not likely since they don[t really have nay clues) all be up in arms about taking water in to Sydeny from as far away as Kangaroo Valley (which is happening now) but no, they want more and from even further away! 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(?) And frankly I'm equally amazed at your inability to take on board refe rences given to enable you to do some research and that may challenge your generalisations (you can even access then online so don't even have to inconvenience yourself by going outside) . i'm not sure where you might have got the idea that i'm painting country people as dimwits when i'm _obviously_ not. Really? I particulalry enjoyed the one about: "city peeps are generally better-educated and have a much broader view of the world, their world is just bigger than ours is" Such a generalisation really surprised me. I know I get to the Opera House more often than my city rels do now that the ballet dancer has ended her career (and they only went to see her anyway, not a range of things) and I am always amazed at how busy my city friend and rels are but how little they actually use the benefits of the city. The routine of daily living for them is much more restrictive on their lifestyle than it is for the country people I know. They go to more restaurants and movies but not to do anything useful in a cultural or educative sense - just much more social. Lots of talk but no meat. And when it comes to education, my (country born and bred and working) Mechanic has 2 degrees and he's not the only country person I know who has such surprising qualifications behind his rough exterior. I also get a particular kick out of the very traditonal sheep farmer I know who looks like a total hay seed and lives in the deep deep country but who has a PhD (thesis was on sheep). |
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