Don't tell anybody, but Queensland celebrity, Billy Bombax, an arboreal giant who promotes sustainability and recycling , appears to be suffering from the dreaded black plague in various parts of his trunk , especially in the armpit region and earhole.
In an exclusive interview , grumpy looking Billy , who holds up the sky in Townsville's Anderson Park Botanic Gardens , told Little Darwin he fears he will be woodchipped to prevent the repulsive looking ailment spreading to the Cowboys and any wooden spoon they might win .
Billy also has a nasty looking canker on his back , which scares children and deters them from climbing , so they go home and spend all weekend slumped over computers and drongo phones . Bombax is tipped to be the subject of an in depth follow up report to this post by a member of Townsville's media mushroom club sometime next leap year , by which time poor old Billy may have been pulped and made into single use Lady Scott tissues.
