'Drought of the century ending'

'Drought of the century ending' : "'You just sit there listening to it,'' he said today."

The article says more normal and natural weather patterns are re emerging. Let us hope so. The farmer is right. When you have had no rain and you are breathing in so much dust and it's all dry, cracked and brittle, when it does rain, it's an odd, rythmic sound you are not used to, so you just listen. There is a certain comfort in it, that pounding rhythm. For us it means we are not sleeping. We are so used to warm, hot, humid...now it's cold and wet but the rain has come over night some nights and the sound on the roof is quite startling and then odd and then there is that familiar feeling of the comforting rhythm of rain. Quite what it means no one knows. We are so unused to regular weather that we have lost that sense of seasons and with it the security which goes with it. Natural weather is so essential to wellbeing. We need to do all within our power to ensure it. In Adelaide we are quite split in our dress. Some of us are bundled up in winter woollies because we feel so cold. Others of us are still feeling to warm and so still have light weight summer clothing on. It's odd.