{"id":402,"date":"2011-07-09T12:06:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-09T11:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gsu.eventmedialabs.com\/?p=402"},"modified":"2015-07-19T14:56:14","modified_gmt":"2015-07-19T13:56:14","slug":"rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greensideup.ie\/rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"
We complain when there’s too much and when there’s not enough. It’s not until there’s no rain at all that we appreciate just how much we need it, how much the earth needs it.<\/p>\n
Here in the Perigord region of France there’s been an official drought for over a month now. The lakes are drying up and the rivers are flowing slowly.<\/p>\n
In Ireland we’re not used to the word ‘drought’. We find it unsettling when we haven’t had any rain\u00a0for a couple of weeks, but even then our temperatures aren’t hot enough to bake the soil so dry its\u00a0dust when you walk through it.<\/p>\n