For the birds
COMEDIAN DAVID SMIEDT TAKES AN IRREVERENT BUT APPRECIATIVE LOOK AT THE CLASSIC THINGS THAT DEFINE YOU-BEAUT AUSSIE LIFE
If we were housing, washing and quenching their thirst, might as well give ’em a feed too, right? There were a bunch of ways to go here, but the most common was the seed cone. You could buy fancy standalone feeders that required topping up from a bag that was invariably stored in the garage and invited in every rodent within ‘cooee’ for a sunflower and millet degustation. Or you could just pop the ingenious hook that was attached to each cone over an accommodating limb and watch the frenzy unfold. The aim of all this, of course, was to encourage visitors. But, it turns out, only certain varieties. Bird seed manufacturers twigged to this super quickly, with brands mixed for the particular tastes of colourful