MY HUSBAND has recently come up with a new saying, which is actually helping us get through the tough times.

"It is what it is," is his response now to no rainfall, low milk prices and little water allocation.

While I'm really happy he has found a new outlook and it helps him to put things in perspective, I'm not sure I like the same response when things go wrong around the house.

What is it with farm pumps? They go all right until you have visitors or whites to do in the laundry.

I so respect the pioneering women of the past and what they had to put up with, but I, thankfully, am living in 2010 and would like to have water run out of a tap when I turn it on. Or flush the toilet after the three-year-old has done as required.

And imagine not having to use so much bubble bath to hide the colour of the water when people came to stay.

So his new saying may get him over the bigger problems but it is not a good response to "honey there's no water".

Fiona Waters, Deniliquin, NSW