Member Advice On Budgies

Advantages: In Opinion
Disadvantages: In Opinion

...I have now had my budgie for over a month now. My sister received the 9 week year old budgie as a birthday present complete with a cage and equipment. She was happy to receive the budgie. Taking care of a budgie is not that difficult as you think. The first few weeks are quite difficult. In this opinion I will give members advice on looking after budgies. °Brief History° ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I do not now that much about budgies but from my knowledge I think budgies were found and originally came from Australia while they were living in flocks and searching for food. The common name for a budgie is "Budgerigar" I am not sure what the actual scientific name is. It is long indeed. Today budgies are found in a vast number of colours, the one we have got is a green and yellow budgie. The general one. ºColoursº ^^^^^^^^ The colours...

fromthedarkside 27.08.2001 · Read review
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Member Advice on Ciao Addiction.

Advantages: Strange challenges get to me
Disadvantages: None

...and you have to "want" to get better, as in smoking and other addictions, plus you have to actually get to the stage where you admit your addiction. The best medicine is a hot toddy, because it relaxes the brain and lets you chill a little. Onother known medicine for this type of addiction is rabbit interferon. What this involves is letting your rabbit get near to the telephone line and chew until the problem goes away. REALITY CHECK TREATMENT So, we admit we have an addiction, but admitting it, and doing nothing about it is destructive. We believe everything we read, we weep when things are sad, laugh when things are joyous, but we carry on trawling through guestbooks, amazed at new members that tell us things that new members could not possibly know, and going back into life thinking about friends that we have online and how we...

thingywhatsit 08.08.2003 (29.10.2004) · Read review
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Member Advice on Pet Death

Advantages: none
Disadvantages: loss of a loved one

...grieving process you would encounter if a family member passed away. I took the decision that I couldn't let her go completely and had her body collected by a local Pet Cemetery and decided to have her cremated and bring her home for her last journey with us. For part of my grieving process I scouted all the Garden Centres for a rose which would sum my Holly up and for me to look out on and have her close at my side like she had been for those 8 years. One of the things I find hard to understand is the opinion of others who have not had the joy of a dog in their lives. They see you break down and their words of "it's only a dog" stick in your mind, they just do not understand that it isn't just a dog, it is a friend, a companion, a loved one a large part of your life, a friend you share each day and night with and who keeps you company...

allyoxley 05.06.2006 · Read review
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Have an enjoyable online shopping experience

Advantages: EAsy and fun
Disadvantages: Be careful of scams and fraudster

...Shopping online can be an enjoyable experience.There are many benefits in online shopping such as saving time and saving money. Even better, imagine shopping from the comfort of your home, leaving the jostling crowds on the high street. Just sit back with a coffee and have the best shopping experience from the comfort of your home. Shopping online can help you save money and save you time with all the knowledge you will ever need at your fingertips. The way to start shopping online is through a search engine like Google. Type in the product you want to find in the search engine box and you will get the results immediately. However the lists could be so long that you would probably find it confusing and isn't precisely what you want. Try and be concise and precise so you can narrow down your search. There are many ways to make...

jenmil 09.09.2008 (11.09.2008) · Read review
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Ciao - Advice to Help You Get Started

Advantages: hopefully it will give you a good idea about site etiquette
Disadvantages: you don't have to take advice given here or anywhere else on the site or do you?

...that have received good ratings as these will give me an idea of what sort of information the average reader would want to see in a review about a laptop. Of course you can't please everyone - what I consider to be useful advice in a review, others might not want to see all that info - you should really expect to see a range of different ratings on reviews as what's important and helpful to one person might be completely irrelevant to another. I would also add here that just because you find a review exceptionally well written, don?t assume others should find it the same. It might be exceptional to you but just VH or even H to others. There is no perfect review and I really don?t like it when I see comments by new or seasoned members (not so much here but I?ve seen on other sites) saying things like ?I can?t believe someone gave you just...

anonymili 30.06.2009 (05.10.2009) · Read review
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Online shopping

Advantages: Lots of bargains on the net! It's fun shopping on the net.
Disadvantages: Small minority of websites are "iffy"

...I am a big fan of online shopping, I’ve been shopping online for about a year now. Luckily I don’t have to use my parents credit card, I have a solo card on my cash card account. Many people have ideas in their heads that internet shopping is not safe. There is more chance of credit/debit card fraud by shopping over the phone or using mail order. Before entering your details on a website check there is a padlock on the desktop, this means that you are an encrypted secure connection. You should also make sure that the website you are shopping with has a phone number and address and is preferably based in the UK. Many banks now offer protection for shopping on the internet and some websites like Amazon for example will reimburse you if fraud is committed. Many high-street stores are opening up websites on the Internet. You...

Disillusioned 22.05.2001 · Read review
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Swine Flu Advice

Advantages: None
Disadvantages: Everything

...Now you will probably here a lot of stories in the news about the widespread outbreak of Swine Flu also known as the influenza A virus subtype H1N1, which has caused mass media hysteria for some months now. Now many people may have or may be in the process of writing a review about Swine Flu, but for me i feel as if i should be compelled to write a review, because i am currently at the end cycle of suffering from swine flu, something which i have been suffering for nearly two weeks now. I hope to provide as much information as physically possible, as well as share my experiences regarding the flu. Why? Well because i no just how powerful this nasty flu can be, and my aim is to try and help people currently suffering from it, to try and give some advice and what people should do, and perhaps just make people more aware of what symptoms...

jaygami1986 24.08.2009 · Read review
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General online shopping comment

Advantages: Cheap, convenience
Disadvantages: Security. slow downloads

...Guess what, yes as the title suggests this is more a general comment on online shopping, with a little bit about my experiences with Amazon. Sorry to put it here but it was the best section I could find! Everyone knows that shopping for Christmas presents is a pain in the bum, especially if you have family members like mine who do not tell you what they want! Ordinarily this would mean many hours traipsing around shopping centres trying to find that perfect present at the right price, the price bit being very important as I work for the NHS! I thought I'd try a different approach this year and shop online. For those of you who have not tried it yet, I'll run through a few of the advantages and pitfalls as I see them and then tell you about my experiences. ***** Advantages ***** 1. You don't have to leave home 2. You...

paule23 26.12.2000 · Read review
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A great way to shop

Advantages: can be done 24 hours a day,there are some great bargains to be had, safe to shop, do it in the comfort of your own home
Disadvantages: Have to wait for the delivery, sometimes you have to take time off work for it too so you can sign for the goods.

...Shopping online is so easy and so stress free that I wish going out would be a thing of the past. I hate going out and having to queue and push past loads of people when it is busy. Another great thing is you can check loads of different retailers at the same time to make sure you are geting the best deal and you don't have to drive around and then come back if it was cheapest at the first shop. More and more people are now buying computers and having access to the internet and it is a good thing I thing. Having the internet means you can do so much in the comfort of your home and you can communicate via e-mail and save money on your phone bills, pay bills etc. To begin with I was a little sceptical of giving my card details over the internet because I was not sure how safe it was at the time. Now I have been shopping...

coolchanty 13.03.2002 · Read review
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  Shopping with Danish pastry in hand

Advantages: Shopping
Disadvantages: No money left

...After reading and enjoying Moose’s op on Denmark, I felt I should enter the fray and add an op about shopping in Denmark. My mum is Danish and I estimate that if I add up all the time that I have visited Denmark through the years, I have spent 2 years of my life there. Shopping in Denmark is something that I am a bit of an expert on – mainly because I spend so much time enjoying this relaxing past time on my visits! Ciao suggested that I should write my op as part of a town. I’ve chosen Holstebro as this town contains most of the shops that I have highlighted in my op and it’s the site of my favourite store – Bahne. Plus, there really isn’t much else to do in Holstebro except shop! Holstebro is in Northern Jutland (Jylland if you’re Danish). But this is a general op, as I wanted people to...

northern_lights 15.08.2002 (15.11.2002) · Read review
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