My Danish guest quit her volunteer job at Greenpeace but the expected replacement job never came through, so she’s spending her days at home. One day this week I came home to find her with a big grin. I asked her what she’d done to make her so relaxed.
‘I had a long shower,’ she said.
‘Sofie,’ I said, concerned. ‘Haven’t we told you that you have to have short showers in Australia because of the water shortage?’
‘Yeah, but for me a long shower is only twenty minutes.’
Any Australians reading this would find it unbelievable that anyone would consider such a long shower, but I think back to my days in Europe and realise that long showers just mean slightly higher water rates.