Counting Drops Before They Fall

It's perplexing, this weather business. If only it were as easy to read as Enid Blyton, as easy to predict as the tides. Just as the nation was heaving the first audible sigh of relief that the worst drought in 100 years was behind us, a volley of outrage from NSW farmers has shaken the comfort zone of a coastal majority quarantined from the worst of it.