Advantages: Great quality, Good selection
Disadvantages: None at all

...This is my review of Rob Harvey's Specialist Feeds for African Grey Parrots and also other Parrot diets. If you have any type of Parrot or feathered friend I am sure you will find this useful. I thought I would take the time to also tell you about my African Grey and include some information for anyone wanting to take one on. I have had my African Grey, Millie for about 5 months now and she is really part of the family. I have wanted to have an African Grey for quite a few years but really needed to spend the time researching in order to find out as much as possible. I would highly recommend anyone thinking about keeping a Parrot, do the same. There is such a lot to know and knowledge helps so much when your friend eventually joins your home. The African Grey can live for many years, there are reports of some living way past 50... Read review

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Advantages: Bogey at his best
Disadvantages: The leeches

...I was about 15 when I first saw The African Queen at our local cinema (one of seven in Accrington pop 30,000) and it impressed me not a bit. But that did not matter as the girl by my side on the back row made up for a dreary film. For a kid of that age there just wasn't any action to speak of and who wanted to see a gin soaked old sea dog playing host to a religious spinster? It was boring except that I wasn't bored but that had nothing to do with the film. The years went by as I served my country and one day in civvy street on the new fangled telly there was The African Queen starring Humphrey Bogart and Kathryn Hepburn. This time I paid more attention as being older and wiser (I thought so anyway) watching people getting bumped off wasn't such an attraction. Real life has a habit of modifying your views... Read review

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Advantages: Special friend for a life-time
Disadvantages: They need time and commitment and don't always get it

... AFRICAN GREY PARROTS... I for a time had a Yellow-Crowned Amazon and a Grey which my mum inherited when grandma died. I knew those birds virtually all my life and loved them to bits. I was gutted when my mum re-homed them after I moved out, but I was expecting little boy, no way could I have coped with a newborn and 2 parrots in the small place we had. Anyway this is mostly why I ended up taking on an African Grey about this time last year, and wouldn't be without him. When I got him the poor guy had plucked himself bald and was not a happy birdie. Woman who had him couldn't cope with him and wanted to find him a new home. She didn't like to let him out and he didn't have much of a life sitting in his cage 24-7 bored out of his mind. She had got him from a pub somewhere and that's all I know of his life before he came... Read review

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Advantages: Nice staff...
Disadvantages: Serves LHR with check-in problem

...South African Airlines has recently had a facelift to bring in its new logo and tail designs, looking more sunny and South African. They also serve a variety of markets, of which I will try and address most of here. First of all, there is the SA Airlink domestic market. This airline has only recently joined the South African fleet - a few years ago it was an independant company. But South African is taking care of it, and keeping it young, and the service is as good as ever if not better! SA Airlink operates a fleet mainly of prop/ regional jet, with their main hub at Johannesburg International (see seperate opinion). But don't be put off, as their props are the comfortable and roomy Bombardier QSeries. The company flies serving routes between all the South African airports. The staff are very friendly, and always willing... Read review

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Advantages: Price, fresh alive taste
Disadvantages: Dry for some

...Sainsbury’s South African Chenin Blanc only £3.49 for a 75cl bottle or buy in bulk with a 3litre (that’s 4x75cl bottles) box for £10.89, a bargain or what? Where does it come from? South Africa has a long history of making wines from what we all know as the Cape region. With its apartheid problems behind it South Africa needs valuable exports and they are now producing good quality wines to earn the much need foreign currency. A close friend on his return to the UK first introduced me to these wines only a few years ago after