Many Canberrans have on their shelves a copy of Forshaw and
Cooper’s ‘Australian Parrots’ (one edition or other), so it was a bird moment of
some significance when Bill Cooper was in town yesterday asking Joe to help him
renew acquaintance with the Gang-gang, as so many north Queensland residents
like to do. After all, he is the creator of the COG logo. So
after a check that the birds were about it was off to Gang-gang C*ntr*l, where a
scout around the block brought to light, of all things, a modest YRT-based (but
gang-gangless) MFF in someone’s front garden. Unfortunately the later than
planned start meant that there was pretty well a complete absence of GGs at the
time. This did not stop me trying to generate some kind of graphic to
record the event. Barbara will remember that a few years ago we had a
similarly acallocephalonic day during the visit of David Bird of the ‘Bird
Almanac’, so perhaps these chaps just don’t like the pressure of having to
perform on the big occasion.
