According to today’s Courier Mail, fines for using a sprinkler on your garden have doubled from $75 to $150. If you’re caught using a sprinkler a second time the fine increases to $225. Third time you’re hit with a $300 fine.

Apparently 6 people in Brisbane have been fined in the last 10 days or so.

It’s not going to affect me. I’ve always used a hand-held hose.

Hand-held hoses are going to be banned in a month’s time if we don’t get more rain. Getting rain in summer shouldn’t be a problem in Brisbane - it’s our wet season, but in these days of global warming …..?