Adelaide flat as a pancake.

We are so tired today. All yawning. All exhausted. All sleep walking. Not in a bad mood...just flat as pancakes. Some of it is because we have had a big temperature swing down again to the twenties. These see-sawing temperatures are exhausting physically because generally we are a happy, busy lot who like to do. So if we sit down...out come the yawns. Some of it is the police helicopter which was out and about last night for reasons best know to itself...so some people were awake listening and wondering and watching. We are not good on police helicopters but we know they are looking after us. Then there is the ongoing lack of rain. When it is dry then drier and now...driest, it just exhausts you looking at dried up bits and brownness. The trips to work are brown. All dried up and lacking in life and it makes us feel like that...and water. We just want water. We used to beat the heat by watering ourselves as we watered the garden. It was fun and welcome relief. Summer in Australia used to be a fun , laid back time of year.Now we have to think about water and air conditioners just do not have those same restorative properties as a good hose down! Not everyone has air conditioning so they are feeling a bit wrung out by now because the heat and dry has just gone on. It strings you out. So we hear news that we might get the desalinated water by next summer...but that is a year away. When you are in the middle of hot and dry it just seems endless and water restrictions have made it such a negative, destructive experience. We are not negative by nature. We'll get on with most things and we'll put up with a lot...so any discussion of dealing with global warming is just so much hot air which adds to our burden. We are past talking about it. Your average citizen has been working on things to save carbon and work towards sustainability. We have work places which have woken up and come onboard with sustainability . So no more talk. Let's just do it because there is plenty which can be done and it is not all costly. We need a more positive approach from the top.