Member Info for BradSmith

Petty France? Went to the passprt office there 4 years on the trot!
Year 1 - got a family passport
Year 2 - lost family passport got 2 passports me and Liz - mine restricted to 1 year
Year 3 - extended my 1 year to 10 years
Year 4 - on the way home from Vancouver they stopped Liz - passport was only for 1 year too! A senior guy asked what the problem was of the junior, and said "Where are they going? What nationality are they? And then where's your problem?
Year 4 - extended Liz's from 1 to 10 years!

Once we got individual passports the family passport turned up - I thought it was stolen when my suit jacket was on the floor after a darts match in Vauxhall Bridge Rd, Victoria!

In those days students were paid to queue for people and they'd phone you when they were near the front of the queue. I was too tight so wasted my time 4 times!

You newbies surprise me - a share that was cheap at 22p before the shares issue, is on the way back towards that 22p less a bit of dilution and you sell? Remember 22p was cheap! Each to his own , but if your ambitions for Sirius are as low as this, I am glad you aren't directors :O)

so cheap Poly4 was a real threat to their business, and the other potash producers.

Duracell, the NYM planning authority did not have the money to finance an impartial study for our application.
We provided that cash for them, and they chose Amec.
Until then there were a few objectors (nimbys with little influence) and it had been very plain sailing.
Even David Cameron seemed to be on our side, planning looked simple!
But at the eleventh hour Amec published their report which flew in the face of everything leading up to it.
They even questioned if poly4 was any good and with Boulby's support denied there was a market for it anyway!
Boulby were selling Muriate and Sulphate of potash for extortionate prices and doing ok so cheap (less than half their prices) BUT the latter was expensive and nasty to produce! Adding suphuric acid to potash!

It looked odds on that producing an unnecessary product (if you believed the infidels) within a National Park would be turned down! Sensibly, we backed out to reformulate our application for hostile conditions and it cost us years, and no doubt a lot of money! Amec were in cahoots with a huge potash corporation in Canada so delays suited them as well as Boulby (ICL).

You can see the ICL u-turn and the Amec Boulby-dash..... and why I am so angry!
Without their deceit we may just have been in production before my wife died. She saw nothing for all my cash and belief in Sirius, and it was not their fault unless you blame them for slight complacency in the first round of planning.
Had you been around , you'd have probably been as happy as most of us were at the time.

I look forward to the days when Sirius advertise for production workers and the younger guys at Boulby ditch their rat infested employers to work for an honourable company. At least ICL are exposing them to Poly4 mining and that may be valuable to us (I hope).

ICL and Amec have both sworn the Hypocritic oath - I reserve the word hatred for that pair.
And my reserves approach the amount of poly4 we own.

I admire our board's ability to refrain from quoting the scumbags' evidence and opinions on the first round planning application - not one concession that Poly4 (the only name in my book for it) had any sort of future - it makes me sick!

But that is why we have chat rooms?

I see one of their bullet points for their Geologist post is "Effective communication skills. " - that would be the ability to lie through the teeth when it comes to competition , I guess.

My broker's spread is 1.6p to 2.35p , and they value them at 1.975p in my portfolio.
I saw 1.975 and 1.568 here - quite a difference!
Been watching WC cricket semi and did not realise the hour, thought Hits post had galvanised something.

Chuk, the volumes are so low (and so cheap) that any self-respecting professionals won't spend a millisecond bothering with us imho.
This is down to people like you and me getting scared by a 1% downshift and selling up.
Well hopefully not like us - I hope we hold pending good news about flow rates. The scared pi's think that the rates stand a 50% chance of being favourable, the realists have faith in Tony going for his hat-trick and getting it.
I cannot put a percentage on it but it is a lot better than 50% judging by his body language. Like a Rolex, it just needs time.
It occurs to me that Lededi 3 and 4 will produce different flow rates. If there is a favoured site and it is currently the one which has the longer lead time, would it be worth delaying an announcement until they are certain about which one gets priority? Just a thought, no insider info or anything like that.

"the same trader has many a couple of 100k buys" ?

Don't believe I could possibly have typed "many" - 4 keys away is ridiculous - so predictive text strikes again?

""the same trader has made a couple of 100k buys" is more like it!

It looks transparent that the same trader has many a couple of 100k buys recently around 6.75p but has helped drop the price by backing out at 6.3p or 6.2p
Is he hoping to back in the 5p's or is he just too spontaneous?

If they were worth buying at 6.75, they are most certainly worth buying at 6.3p - I see I took that approach with ASOS , bought at £3.40 , price dropped ato £3.31 so bought even more!
I threw away £153k by being spontaneous , I wonder what our investor has thrown away utlimately?

OK phil , it did occur to me that Yahoo might use pre or post consolidation thoughout the graph and the early prices might be 100 times too big!
So £2.76 to £176 has been adjusted from the actual figures, 2.76p and 176p - nice one!

I dabbled too I see!
Settlement Date Symbol Quantity Price Description Reference .......... Debit Credit
11 August 2010 GKP 1184 1.04 GULF KEYSTONE PETROLEUM 1244.92 .......
25 August 2010 GKP 1184 1.17 GULF KEYSTONE PETROLEUM ...... 1378.76

A quick £133 profit, did something similar here - what a fool ,grabbed a quickish £1150 on a share that climbed to £76 at its peak 2024 at the peak comes out as £153,824

Settlement Date Symbol Quantity Price Description Reference .......... Debit Credit
07 October 2009 ASC 826 3.4 ASOS PLC 2833.64
07 October 2009 ASC 1198 3.31 ASOS PLC 3999.97
12 November 2009 ASC 2024 3.95 ASOS PLC ........ 7984.04

I used to make money in those days, but now I am experienced, I sit here watching my money disappear!

Seems to be guesswork what the bid/offer price is on IG.
CBA were down to a bargain basement price (imho) of 80.58 so I tried selling TOU at 12c with no success, revised it to 11.5c (I bought 11.2c) and wallop it was done! Blooming CBA were then up to $81.3 ... higher than my average!
So I have sold with no good reason unless my limit bid is matched @ $80.85 which I'll leave on the table!
Getting there, dropping very close! Got it at $80.9 so higher dividends if I don't profit take once they are declared next month! I'll then be able to get back into TOU for another 6 months.
Knackering, this working on Aussie time! Night, night cobbers!

Yahoo long term grid supports the hypothesis but not those figures.
On 8/3/2009 it seems difficult, but possible, to buy at £2.76 , the trough after 6 years.
On 12/2/2012 there was indeed a massive spike to £176.24 so 50 bagger was possible for the very jammy pi.

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/quote/GKP.L/chart?p=GKP.L#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

Poppy barked quite early today and charged up the hall - signifying some post or an imminent door bell.
Just remembered that and was saddened to see a letter to my late wife from Sunderland.
It was a £25 Premium Bond win - she would have loved that!
I thought she had a handul like me - I have 12 I think -.but they have reinvested the prize into new bonds for her bringing her total up to a few thousand and more - plenty to cover the roof.
Included was 'terms and conditions' so I hope they have a section on how to transfer them into my name.
I have been fearing the arrival of the new series of Poldark , her favourite programme. I like it too but it is going to be tough watching it without her. I once bought her a set of Aidan Turner table mats (different photos of him) which she loved. I told her he was probably 5'8" tall, like many actors, so I looked him up on Wiki to find he was 6'1" (an inch taller than me). Happy days, she so laughed at me! I just looked him up again (spell checking Aiden or Aidan?) and find he is 5'11" on https://healthyceleb.com/aidan-turner-height-weight-body-statistics/64569 , Wiki omits his personal stuff nowadays!

IG continues to please me but found they don't quote live prices on deals unless you pay for level 1 or 2 (same price on ASX $24) and £4.92 or £7.20 for the FTSE. Fee chargeable irrespective of you getting a quote that month. Not so good , but I guess they have to make some money out of share investors. The number of trades is ridiculous on ASX , I don't know why we bother with them? But will be handy for my dividends all the same.

They say there is a 20m delay on TOU, but after investigating it transpires 20m after the previous trade - so te quote might be for a previous day if there are none on the day! Hence I thought we were at 13p last night - but that was the last buy on a day in in history! Hence the L1 or L2 option .... X-O suddenly look amazing again.

jumbo, were you a chipolata until you tried poly4 with your full english

I think the Govt announcements are also in the freezer until the long-term gas flow is confirmed.
I guess harnessing the first flows is tricky. Bit like putting nets over all the entrances to a rabbit warren and then the rabbits appear out of the one you missed? Would that be why they are leaving surface water on the coal .... so they can see the farts in the bath :O)

Health and safety issues must abound at this stage , at least I hope so , or our project could go up in smoke - and we want clean energy.

I prefer our own video ....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc7ZrQPsUXw

Eustus, put them in LAST so they are available when you arrive :O)
We may have a whole night of posts showing the price as 15p - who'd have thought that would feel like progress a few months ago?

Myo, I think you might have a career in mining or espionage to have dug that article out.
Just getting to it under your instructions felt like an achievement.
Myo the mole :O)