Advantages: A good house plant Disadvantages: None
Lets step back in time, maybe twenty years ago when African violets were the `in` plant and nearly every household had one sitting on their windowsill.
An aunt of mine considered herself a specialist in the field! I used to be invited to share a pot of her strong tea and partake of an intellectual conversation about the life of an African Violet!
In all fairness she grew beauties, she had the right colour fingers when it came down to it. Her windowsills were awash with pots of all shapes and sizes which were bursting with multi coloured blooms. Not only multi coloured but she loved to experiment, grafting leaves from different plants and growing them as one, she ended up with some marvellous Hybrids!
African violets are fairly easy to propagate, make sure that you have a clean pot ( average sized) fill it with compost ...
Sarahjh1 20.02.2009
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of African Violet
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 ...
The-ex-Raven 05.12.2007 (28.02.2008)
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: exceptional Review of African Grey Parrot
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 ...
