You'd get a surprise if you drove through the city of Toowoomba...
It's a flower garden, every year they have a spring festival of flowers, every garden is adorned with colour.
The present drought is terrible, however, and some areas are very dry. I drive through it each month, and have done for the six years the drought has been on.
But you must understand that 'drought' doesn't mean 'no rain'... it means 'much less than usual rain'... so at times it's nice and green despite the fact that the drought hasn't broken.
Singapore, I believe, reuses effluent in their drinking water. I don't think this is anything new, just sufficiently repulsive that people don't do it unless they really have to.
There are very few spiders in Toowoomba, anyway. They are 500 miles from the archetypical home of the funnel web.
Now... go find yourself a nice slant!
