Occasionally someone on Bee-l mentions a strange or unusual use for hive products but this one must be one of the oddest - feeding honey to parrots! I had a replacement window salesman call on me yesterday. It turned out that he breeds parrots in his spare time. This is quite lucrative. The species he specializes in sells for 200 pounds ($300) a bird. Nutrition is very important for success and he has a food mixture he has developed himself. The formula was quite disgusting, mainly consisting of various dried pulses and other seeds, chicken meat and honey! Anyway, rather than him selling me windows, I sold him a number of bottles of honey. Since he chose my nicest (and most expensive) variety I was relieved to hear that he did intend to eat some of it himself. -- Malcolm Roe Phone : +44 1442 345104 Crosfield Electronics Ltd Fax : +44 1442 343000 Hemel Hempstead, Herts. HP2 7RH, UK E-mail : [log in to unmask] ------------------------------------------------------------------------