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It's been raining for the last three days :-D

We've had an extremely dry summer (very unusual), so the rain is very welcome.

Should I thank Hollywood? Rusell Crowe??

The movie "Noah" opens next week.



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No, just thank G*d.

Yesterday, we had our first (gentle) rain in over three months!

And the temp dropped below 28c!

On Thursday morning.......... raining.... temp about 27C (it's been over 30 for weeks)......... I was in the supermarket....... wondering why some people were wearing sweaters!!!

Me? Shorts (knee length) Tshirt & birkenstocks!

It's been "almost drizzling" all day, more rain expected this week.

My hair has gone mad, but I'm not complaining too much :-D

If I start seeing the local fauna gathering in pairs I'll start to worry.

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you're welcome to it - we had more than our fair share in the UK for at least three months

Friends who live in the local hills are not connected to the water supply, they rely on water tanks.

Early last week, they were concerned, because the tanks were getting very low.

With the rain we've just had, all four of their huge tanks are now 3/4 full!

Our garden has perked up ..... and the lawn has grown so much already! We've lost a few of our tree ferns..... but everything else is looking happy.

:-D

The love of field and coppice,
Of green and shaded lanes.
Of ordered woods and gardens
Is running in your veins,
Strong love of grey-blue distance
Brown streams and soft dim skies
I know but cannot share it,
My love is otherwise.

I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land for me!

A stark white ring-barked forest
All tragic to the moon,
The sapphire-misted mountains,
The hot gold hush of noon.
Green tangle of the brushes,
Where lithe lianas coil,
And orchids deck the tree-tops
And ferns the warm dark soil.

Core of my heart, my country!
Her pitiless blue sky,
When sick at heart, around us,
We see the cattle die -
But then the grey clouds gather,
And we can bless again
The drumming of an army,
The steady, soaking rain.

Core of my heart, my country!
Land of the Rainbow Gold,
For flood and fire and famine,
She pays us back threefold -
Over the thirsty paddocks,
Watch, after many days,
The filmy veil of greenness
That thickens as we gaze.

An opal-hearted country,
A wilful, lavish land -
All you who have not loved her,
You will not understand -
Though earth holds many splendours,
Wherever I may die,
I know to what brown country
My homing thoughts will fly.

B*gger that for a game of soldiers, Dorothy :-|

Dorothy? who her :-S

Dorothy McKellar, the author of the poem.

It's the second verse that most Aussies know

and you didn't copy & paste? lol

We've been having a deluge all day!! Half an hour ago all our gutters were overflowing..............oh gawd, here it comes again!

We don't have a boat, I'm thinking of blowing up one of the mattresses we use for visitors!

That's it............. I'm blaming Russell Crowe :-(

HELP.............. I can't swim!!!!!!!!!!

During the night, we must have had the rain that we should have had over the last three months!

We were outside at 1am, trying to move things around so that they wouldn't get too wet......... crazy!

This morning the back deck is soaking wet (it has a roof!) and everything is dripping.

I hope I get things dry, don't want them to go mouldy.

:-(

I'm definitely blaming Russell Crowe (who has a house about an hour south of us....... wonder if he got soaked?)

Allan we had to learn the second and last verse of that poem in Grade 5,I can still recite the second verse.I think her name was spelt "Dorothea" McKellar BTW.

In Melbourne we haven't had any rain lately,today was a very pleasant 31 degrees.It would be nice to have some decent rain to fill the tanks,but not as much as you have had Lady Scozz.

Margot.