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Just before going to sleep last night I was ranting to my husband about over allocation of rivers worldwide (I’m sure he brought it up). He quickly broke through my rant with the following exchange:

Me: ….and it’s only because the states aren’t using their full allocations that it’s not an environmental disaster……do you know what an acre-foot is?

Him: “Yeah, it’s when you drop a heavy brick on your foot and you say “ahhh my aching foot”.

Me: Dissolves into laughter

Him: “I thought you needed a gigglelitre”

PS. For those who care - one million acre-feet of water is equivilant to 1233.5 gigalitres

Globalisation brings us some truly great developments - like being able to pick up a chai latte from Renmark Maccas early on a Thursday morning.

I visited India for three months in 2002 - my husband lived there for 18 months and the rest of his family were there for up to 10 years - and still remember the cries of hawkers on the trains: CHHAAAAAIIII, CHAAAAIIII, OMALET, OMALET (sic). At that time I had never come across chai - now it is everywhere.

It’s a bit like dukkah, which is a bit like George’s pesto rant in The Busboy episode of Seinfeld:

(Jerry, George, and Elaine are all eating at an Italian restaurant. George hasn’t eaten anything)

ELAINE: Do you want some of mine?

JERRY: Take some of mine.

GEORGE: Why do I get pesto? Why do I think I’ll like it? I keep trying to like it, like I have to like it.

JERRY: Who said you have to like it?

GEORGE: Everybody likes pesto. You walk into a restaurant, that’s all you hear - pesto, pesto, pesto.

JERRY: I don’t like pesto.

GEORGE: Where was pesto 10 years ago?

I know where chai was 10 years ago - in the thermos of thousands of Indians yelling CHAAIIII, CHAIIII as they travelled around the sub-continent. But I’m sure glad it’s here now - even if it passes only the most minimal of resemblances to its authentic spicy cousin.

Welcome to murray river life - a collection of local news and events, sometimes localised to the Riverland region of SA, and sometimes not. We may also touch on PR industry related news and often might just talk about nothing at all.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy. Malcolm Forbes.