The Uninvited

I say, ‘Pyjama Girl dreamed about abeautiful white desert that sparkled. Shesaid it looked like Heaven.’‘If it is, it’s a salty one. What have youcome up with on that front?’I glance at my notes. ‘The fact thatsalt’s been very dynamic of late. Saltlevels in most oceans have increaseddramatically over the last fifty years. Buteven more so in the last three or four.There are many countries that arereporting massive crystal deposits inlandbecause much of the water table is saltladen.Farmers have been battling it foryears. It comes to the surface by capillarytransport and when it evaporates, youhave whole deserts of it. In SouthAustralia there are already millions ofhectares where nothing will grow. They