St. John’s Anglican Church is an old building and it’s full of cracks. We’ve tried patching them, but they always come back. Back in 2020, I started monitoring one crack to see what was going on. We were still in drought and, at the time, it was 3mm wide. Over the next few months it opened up to over 4mm. But then we had a wet year. At my most recent check, the crack had reduced to just over 1mm wide…

At times I feel guilty that, in the midst of a drought, my home is surrounded by green lawns that are watered each night by automatic sprinklers (we use bore water)…