The ongoing drought is hugely weighing on people's minds, especially rural people.
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City dwellers are unfortunately barely aware of the plight of their 'Country Cousins'.
Water is becoming a very serious issue with reservoir levels becoming alarmingly low and towns looking at actually running out of water.
NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro is adamant we need to build more dams to drought proof Australia.
He added if we lose a couple of frogs, so be it.
We all know when it is wet so much of this water is lost into the ocean.
A plan, a project to catch and store this water for those non-rainy days is essential.
John Barilaro is right in what he says and I must agree with his statement about the frogs.
The enormity of such a project is mind blowing, but I guess the same would have been said about the Snowy Mountains Scheme, but where there's a will there's a way.
Our rivers are looking very dry and we rely on rain to fill our reservoirs and make our rivers run.
Man has tried many ways to make it rain from rain dances, to prayer and scientific cloud seeding, with not much success.
When it rains, we have to try to save it.
John Barilaro, and all, keep dreaming, keep pushing, talk and engage the listeners.
WITS
Dorothea MacKellar summed up Australia's climate very well with her line, "Droughts and flooding rains".
Is this current drought a result of global warming or simply part of a cycle the earth faces?
I mean to say, we did have an Ice Age.
Demonstrators in Brisbane disrupted traffic protesting about the Adani coal mine project and the affect coal fired power stations is having on global temperatures.
I honestly feel and here so often on talk back radio that if a vote was put whether or not the globe was warming, the result would come out 50/50.
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Are we informed enough to have a view either way?
It would be an appropriate time for the scientific community to get their heads together and call it exactly as it is.
Then again scientists, if the voted, could they come up with 100 per cent consensus.
WITS
In WITS of November 23, 2017, I invited people to nominate a bad road in an effort to discover our ten worst local roads.
The main street through Frogmore topped the list of worse roads.
Unfortunately, here we are two years later and nothing has been done to improve the lot of Frogmore residents.
To boot, this road is part of the 'Gateway to Wyangala'.
Now I've got another challenge for you to consider.
Brial Road is in very poor condition and the section from 64 to 105 could only be described a disgrace.
Now to that challenge, drive up Brial Road, take a look, and if you know a road in worse nick please let me know.
Phone 0428 853 348 or go to avondalepark2@gmail.com.
WITS
Been a bit serious, let's lighten up with a touch of Irish humour.
Colleen dropped a Euro coin, intending it to fall into the blind man's hat on the pavement, but missed.
As quick as a flash, he scooped up the coin and put it in the hat.
"You're not blind," said Colleen.
"No I'm not," said Paddy, "it's Murphy who's blind, I'm just filling in for him while he's gone to the pictures."
