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- NSW, Newstralya
Drought
- Thread starter Clive
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- NSW, Newstralya
The Betoota Advocate
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The Forgotten Victims Of The Drought: This Brickie Has Had To Work Every Day For Three Years
ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact
“The drought affects a whole range of industries, not just agriculture,” he said.
“We might not make good television or sell newspapers with our stories of woe but let me tell you something for free. We brickies, builders and unskilled sh!t-kickers haven’t had a rain day in almost three years,”
“Do you know what that does to a man? What it does to a brickie’s soul? No, you wouldn’t.”
Speaking candidly to The Advocate this morning at the Betoota Height’s hi-vis takeaway institution, Helen’s Ventricle Blowout Canteen, Stevie Proctor said he longs for drought-breaking rain because he needs a day off badly.
The 33-year-old over-confident Leo did concede that if he did have a rain day, he’d probably waste it ripping cones and playing Star Wars Episode I: Pod Racer on his Nintendo 64 he won in a bet 12 years ago.
“But that’s heaven to me,” he said, wiping the Dare Iced Coffee milk moustache off his face with his bare forearm.
“What a brickie does with his rain day is between him and God. Speaking of God, if he’s reading this, get off your fudgeing cloud and give us some rain, you fudgeing idiot. People are doing their arse out here and you’re probably off pashing John Lennon or something fudgeing crook like that! fudge!”
Helen called out Stevie’s order number and he paid for his works burger and sausage roll with a fistful of coins.
“It’s fudgeed,” he said.
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- NSW, Newstralya
glasshouse
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have u got a contract to supply?
I work with a local grower. He does have supply contracts with Aldi/Waitrose/Aldi. Luckily all the ground is not like that but we are worried things will be tight.