As my more assiduous readers will remember, I'm still waiting for somebody somewhere to find that hidden-away elusive tape of The Big Bird Race. If you're too young to remember ( or too old) ,the whole day's antics ( antiques?) was filmed by,er, a film crew. And it was broadcast on the TV.... just the once ..... BUT .... I didn't get to see it. Maybe you didn't either. Grrrr. Those were the days when you couldn't simply "copy" whatever was on the box ... oh no. And I missed it .... because I did night classes at the local college ..... bah. I couldn't let my keen maths students down.... double bah. And the annoying thing is, now and then we hear of somebody finding some tape or other of ancient editions of Coronation Street or Latin for Beginners or whatever ..... or ancient photograph albums or diaries ..... lucky them. But NOBODY seems to have taped ( and kept)(up in some gloomy attic) The Big Bird Race. I wouldn't be surprised to find that a few days after my funeral that a tape of it turned up a smidgin too late. BUT .... I'm a "solutions" sort of person, so what I want is for them to DO IT AGAIN !!! WE should get every birder in the UK to encircle Sandy Beds brandishing huge placards insisting on " DOING THE BLASTED BIG BIRD RACE AGAIN OR ELSE !" That'll put the wind up'em.
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