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The organisations that can afford the bonds are probably not too worried about what a credit agency thinks?
Credit agencies might however be impressed by those who bite off chunks of the £500m?

Do bulls and newbies produce bubies?

I worked on scaffolding during the summer break in my student daze (sp?). The last thing we did was put up handrails - how selfless was that Scot? I went over the edge once but lucky for me I was able to grab a vertical pole and pole dance back onto the platform. Gave me a nasty turn? An old boy bent down to pick something up as I walked around him and his backside became a bumping car! Sorry boyo says he!

Installed a netgear wifi booster yesterday to make th tv work for the goldfish at the back of the house. They watch Robson Green. My Android phone was sticking with the hub at the front despite the stronger signal at the rear!
Found a free app called WifiSwitcher (by Cloudie developments) for the phone and it pops up the option to switch if it finds a stronger signal. Nice feature if you don't want BT hotspots usurping you own hub (which mine can do).

I think Fred was spot on - the 'sheep' probably got out of SXX years ago and we are now left with bulls and newbies?

Well done Thornback - you caught my fish thief 'green fingered' in his response to your link. Paul Young no less :O)

Fish food had sunk or was eaten overnight - just threw some more in and waited about 15 minutes - and then both the Koi appeared - I am happy. It is peeing down so my roof is finally being tested! Scared to look!

That lifting gear looks very smooth in more ways than one?

GK on a slippery slope , surely not , but it is raining!

SoWs I think I can safely say there is no sheep mentality here - nobody is likely to follow you - too much carp to step over!

If you look at numbers posted by your 'flock' you will see huge multiples of your 47 posts - you are still in the kindergarten when it comes to this SXX chatroom - they have been growing up with this share - you have some catching up to do!

Your quote , "But the rapid crash has me panicking." , sums you up. This was no rapid crash, it was the culmination of a decade news , as the story emerged chapter by chapter. We have been irritated ,for sure, but the dilution from 4bn shares has not panicked many sane investors because they half expected it or understood it after the events.
The story is still that the boy will get girl in the final chapter, even if both are middle aged!

"Even a fraction of a pence literally means thousands of £££ for me" and
"Struggling to hold my nerve. If it drops below 15. 50p. Selling everything."
quotes from you is great news for the flock. Most will happily accept the risk you fear and take your shares off you.
Every cloud etc!

July 24 Ariane 5 • Intelsat 39 & EDRS-C
Launch window: 1930-2147 GMT (3:30-5:47 p.m. EDT)
Launch site: ELA-3, Kourou, French Guiana
Arianespace will use an Ariane 5 ECA rocket, designated VA249, to launch the Intelsat 39 and EDRS-C communications satellites. Built by SSL, the Intelsat 39 satellite will replace Intelsat 902 and provide broadband networking and video distribution services in Africa, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, plus broadband connectivity for mobile users in the Indian Ocean region. The EDRS-C satellite, built by OHB System AG, will be the second node in the European Data Relay System, a network developed by the European Space Agency and Airbus Defense and Space providing high-speed laser communications links between low-orbiting satellites and ground stations. EDRS-C also carries a hosted steerable Ka-band communications payload named Hylas 3 for Avanti Communications. Delayed from June. [June 13]

https://spaceflightnow.com/launch-schedule/

My wife diagnosed with Ovarian cancer Stage 4 in 2012 - and I stopped riding my motor bike that year.
It has suffered for as long as she did (passing in Sept 2018) but on July 4th I had it collected in order to make it to roadworthy. My bike shop said it could cost £1000, but if the petrol pump has seized it will be another £600. The bike has 5,800 on the clock so thought it worth doing.

Good news is he got it running, fixed the petrol leak (split plastic item in the fuel pipe) , new plugs and oil etc.. and it started up under its own steam!
Bad news is the chrome had lifted on the front forks so the oil seals would not work!
New tyres, wheel bearings, battery, chain and sprocket etc makes it a £1500 estimate. Gave him the ok, and he reckons a week to get it all ready MOT and all.

Better news is one my Koi has come out of hiding after 2 or 3 days, and is looking very chirpy. He was whizzing round the pond so fast I could not tell if it was one or two! Fingers crossed both ofthem survived, and hid at the wild end of the pond. Feared a heron had them when the netting was off and I took the wolf (Labradoodle really) up the park for an hour! At least it means the water is no longer deadly poisonous? Might buy a couple of fish tomorrow to give it or them company.

TOU are 10.5c on ASX and CBA are back to $82+ which must happen with a dividend next month likely? AGM is 7th Aug I think, so dividend news then. Expecting between $2 and £2.4 which is not bad for 6 months. It seems to be $2 fixed in February each year. Return is usually over 5% - a tad better than ISAs in the UK eh?

My credit card starts a new session tomorrow so might buy tomorrow and defer payment by a month or so, after I have the bike back!

Scotty, my cover was a universal one when I bought it, and you still them in use, silver and blue on both bikes and scooters. Was about £20 20 years ago.. We need different types I reckon, you need one to reflect the sun and I need mine to keep the rain off?

One to an even happier tale - the pond pump is still going 24/7 and today I intended to take a water sample to the aquatics shop for testing, and some new fish if it was ok, but forgot!
Went round to the pond to get some when I got home from dog walk, and one of my Koi was bombing up and down like Mark Spitz! Looked perfectly healthy. He was so fast that I am still unsure if there was one or two I was looking at.

Presumubly a lack of oxygen as suggested by people whose posts were deleted - thanks guys/dolls.
Might buy a couple of fish tomorrow to keep it or them company and maybe get some babies? I have had them breed in the past , a sign of a healthy pond I was told.

Time to look at ASX to see if I can make £1500 over there :O)

She isn't Dotty Chesh! But are you :O)
Don't get angry - I don't want to experience Cheshire ....

Stored at one end of the car port, not been started since 2012 , the year of my wife's diagnosis and treatment.
Had a bike cover for years but it disintegrated in the wind over time.

Tbh it has been neglected for obvious reasons.

Sprint RS 955i

Scotty, my garage has just rung and they have the bike running.
The petrol leak was a plastic piece in the fuel line that had split.
Done the oil etc, new plugs and it started under its own steam!

Bad news is the forks have rusted and the chrome has lifted to render the suspension useless (No seal possible).
So, brakes need attention (freeing up) ,new forks needed, new wheel bearings, new tyres, battery, chain and sprocket - petrol pump was ok so that saved up to £600 he reckoned, but the total to get it MOT'd is going to be £1500!
Bike has only done 5800 miles so I guess it is worth it. He reckons I'll get in about a week.
Have a season ticket at Wimborne Town (fathers day pressie) and Poppy is not welcome in the bar so I'll not feel guilty taking the bike to matches - drink and drive is another story. Will only have one when I have 150mph+ in my right hand in fact.

In common, with a few confessionals on here today - I might need to start trading as well to pay for it.
Bike will cost me £3000 in all likelihood if I do :O(

Just remembered Portrush golf is on - blow , forgot all about it.
An old house mate was a member there and said how lovely it is.
I wonder if he'll be marshalling, bt will I recognise after nearly 50 years?

Just had a private message from someone on the RENE board explaining that , Grizzly B, is nothing to do with Bears - just a shortened version of a word to do with legitimacy or not. First time post on here was memorable while it lasted.
Not very long or worthwhile but too big for our filters on here!

The reason I post so much, is I get really miffed when I look on here and it has not changed since last time!
Bit like going out to the post box and there is no mail! Really miffing and feels like a waste of time after making the effort?

BTS you are here loud and clear - just above my filtered message lol!

Chukkers, your 'piffe' reminds me of a story I heard at Pilkington Glass, Kent where I had to demonstrate some software for them. The boss told me one of their reps went to France to give a sales pitch and decided to speak French as much as possible to impress. At lunch, he asked the French manager why people were smirking every time he said the name of their company , GPT!
He tried to pronounce it in the French way - Jay Pay Tay instead of Gee Pee Tee!
The manager smiled and told him politely his pronunciation was that of " J'ai peter" which translates to " I have farted".

Sorry to raise the level from miserable bears without ears! Nothing like a good moan when you are losing money as we all are on paper.

The "casing" does not actually exist from the Wiki article I posted as piffle!
It sounds as if the gas finds it way up the back of the excavations or something.

Tom will know this I feel, but Kodiak certainly won't, he'd rather have an empty chat room!
He might have been that rep - strange smell on here!

UK price looks higher than ASX price - think it might be time to do some more overnight trading if the numbers add up! 10c for a share I kicked off with at 10p I think? And we are much further down the road now, sounds pretty good value.

How did they think I meant glass and not gas? Predictive text is too clever for its own good.

People in gas houses should never throw scones? Will it sort that out :O)
No- it is only works when you are not looking!

EVERYTHING hinges on the flow rates.
The Minister said in his speech he was fully committed to CBM once it was proved there is gas and it flows.
And once proven, his support would be immediate.
So silly, once the results are known and published we will be kicking ourselves for not remortgaging the house to buy at 6p, or we'll be remortgaging the house to buy a loaf of bread and wonder why we did not get out of here long ago.
And the result , either way, will be obvious with hindsight.

I believe in TG , there is gas imho and he says dewatering is going well. Water is the main danger to gas flows but even then it is possible to pump water and gas mix to the surface, and to separate the two! Highly inefficient to do that and safely getting rid of the contaminated water residue would also be awkward. The heavy pumping also knackers the pump faster than compressing the gas.

I may just have explained why we are taking it slowly? Clean glass is the aim, and if that takes a few extra months, it will be worth it?

You can read this for yourself....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalbed_methane_extraction

You haven't posted for almost 2 months Tom (on TLOU) , did you get out without telling us or are you counting salmon as the reservoir grows, and there is nothing to say until we confirm flow rates?

Tom , I think I must have read something similar when I suggested we were regulating the flow of gas? Looks like Lesedi 3 might be being controlled?
In my analogy, you would want to avoid a Tsunami which could damage an untested dam? A Thames barrier perhaps on the water source?

I cannot picture a gas casing tbh , sounds impossible?

Am reviewing that RNS to see if there is any reason why TOU is down to to 10c (less than 6p - nearer to 5.5p maybe).
Bothe Lesedi 3 and 4 mention closed casings and a build up of gas pressure within them.Do we have an expert amongst us who knows how big these casings are? And whether they can be misplaced so gas escapes from the coal outside the casing?

I am hoping that the parallel would be building a reservoir for water? You build the build the dam, and eventually, slowly, the river becomes a permanent lake? Is that where we at, a huge casing filling up with gas day by day? And once full we have our reservoirs forever?

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Production Update
The Lesedi 4 pod has continued to dewater and CDP has now been reached
successfully. CDP is the pressure that gas begins to come out of the coal
after a careful dewatering process. Gas is now starting to come out of the
coal and is steadily building pressure inside the closed casing.

A short-term gas flow test at Lesedi 3 took place after a significant gas
pressure build-up inside the well casing. The result of this test is
considered by the Company to represent a positive indication of the pod's
potential. Post the short-term test, dewatering has continued with the plan
to hold the water level just above the coal and continue to draw down pressure
in the well allowing gas to flow in a controlled manner, ideally leading to a
long-term gas flow from the Lesedi 3 pod.