Friday, February 7, 2020

OPERATUNITY AND RAIN

Today was the Operatunity Concert - 100 Glorious Years of song.  We thoroughly enjoyed it. The songs included When you're Smiling, Down by the Riverside, Baby it's Cold Outside, Born Free, You'll Never Walk Alone and many more.  It isn't just the songs but the whole show that is really entertaining with plenty of laughs.

The rain is not here (although there has been flooding at the bottom of the South Island) but my stepdaughter in N.S.W. has rain.  It sounds as though there should be enough to put out all the fires around her.  

It would be great if it then moves across to us.  Things are getting really serious north of us with at least two towns on level 4 which is water use only for essential cooking, drinking and hygiene.  Several weeks of rain is needed to replenish supplies.

We are still just being asked to conserve water but are still able to water our gardens although it has got to the stage where it just keeps things alive as the heat and wind dries everything out quickly.

Still got tomatoes, capsicum, beetroot, a few beans, lettuce and potatoes in the garden and supplies still available at the Growers' Market.

15 comments:

  1. Last year we were told not to top-up our pools. This is impossible as the pool would soon start to suck air into the pump etc. We simply did it and hoped no-one was watching.

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  2. Dry here too, hand held hose from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. But we can have a shower and do laundry, I'm so thankful for that.

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    1. That is good. Kaitaia and Kaikohe in particular sound as though they could run out of water

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  3. The Operatunity sounds lovely. Would like to hear a concert of those songs.
    Do hope it rains soon. Thank goodness for rain in NSW. They have been through hell

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    1. Operatunity is not just the songs but the way they perform them. Yes, rain in N.S.W. is wonderful.

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  4. Talking to friends in Whanganui today, no rain there for six weeks..and it wasn't a lot then...

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    1. Luckily our dams are not too bad but Kaitaia and Kaikohe are talking of running out of water in days.

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  5. The Operatunity concert seems to have little to do with opera based in the songs you cite. Let's all hope that NSW doesn't go from fire to flood.

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    1. Operatunity covers most forms of entertainment and I have not seen any opera yet. Yes, it would be so easy for it to go to flood.

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  6. I hope you get your rains soon and the fires all stop. You have all had such a difficult time of it during your summer.

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    1. Although the soils are dry we are o.k. for water in the local dams. It is towns further north that are due to run out of water soon. It will be good though to have a night or two not having to water the gardens.

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  7. Your concert sounds like so much fun. We haven't had rain here either, although we are not as dry as you are and our water restrictions are not too bad yet.

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    1. Operatunity goes to Hamilton. Yes, I think most of the North Island is dry.

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  8. Years ago, when I lived high in the hills above Sandy Bay, lack of water (we were not on town supply) was a real problem at times. BUt what a beautiful place to live.

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    1. Yes, when my late husband and I were in the far north we relied on tank water. Several times we drove down to a nearby lake with a small tank on our trailer and filled it up with lake water for toilet and gardens to save on the drinking water.

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