Member Info for BradSmith

Hi Gerald,
Liz was 9 years older but both is considered young nowadays.
When I went delete the RBD article I saw an interesting paragraph.
In the final month or so (August?, she died Sept 17th), the doctor put me on sertraline tranquilisers because I was twitchy and saw fear in everything.
Could not watch the Thai cave rescue for fear of a panic attack, or football (broken legs), or horse racing, and I'm still on that drug. Withdrawal from sertraline can bring on RBD - oh boy!
38% of RBD sufferers go on the get Parkinson's within a decade or so of getting RBD - you share name has opened up a real can of worms :O)

CBA is not a flutter - they pay really good dividends twice a year - but cost a lot per share( £40 to £50).
I use CBA dividends to buy TOU with the aud$ that go into my nominee account.
Hope your boy gets the care he deserves, I'll take you up on your meeting once he is sorted,
Best wishes, Mike.

Brad Smith is/was a cherry player, or our promising MotoGP rider (almost!), or chairman of Microsoft (did not that until a few seconds ago)... I wish!

RBD is something I suffer from OBNW, in one dream I was sat on a loo where the door opened outwards!
Somebody started opening the door and we had a tug of war! When the missus asked what I was doing, I awoke, to find I was pulling the bedside cabinet around - carpets and no castors it was hard to reposition it whilst standing! I was moving it with finger-tips (sore) from a prone position in bed - quite alarming!
Another time, I was sat up in bed arms raised to catch a cricket ball! I told the Mrs that I was about catch David Cameron out!
The worst one was when I was kneeing a soldier where it hurts in the dream, but was on my side and my knee went over the top of her! I woke immediately she said something and knew the story in full - luckily I never harmed her.

It still happens, I have a doublebase gel dispenser by the bed, and punched that one night. I heard something hit the floor and felt for it! Found something odd which I did not recognise until morning. The bottle and base had separated. And, the last one, just a few months back, in a hospital cot-bed I punched the cot rails so hard the night nurse heard it miles away! How my hand was not injured I'll never know but I was aiming at a snide copper at a court case involving a close friend who had been set up! I guess I ought to raise it with my Doctor?

This write-up describes it completely - not seen it before - don't know if I shout out or talk but it seems possible! Poor old Poppy (labradoodle) must be worried if I do because she hates people shouting!

"In a person with REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD), the paralysis that normally occurs during REM sleep is incomplete or absent, allowing the person to "act out" his or her dreams. RBD is characterized by the acting out of dreams that are vivid, intense, and violent. Dream-enacting behaviors include talking, yelling, punching, kicking, sitting, jumping from bed, arm flailing, and grabbing. An acute form may occur during withdrawal from alcohol or sedative-hypnotic drugs."

Ah! I knew there was someone nearby and thought it was "Bythesea" but, tbh, I could not remember which board I saw you on. I am East Dorset too (in old terminology?) , Corfe Mullen. He is just across the water from us, probably in the North Sea at Robin Hood's Bay.
All my stocks are flutter accounts in reality - two on AIM and SXX - but now I have access to ASX again I'll be reinvesting in CBA for biannual dividends to plough into TOU. My dilemma is which of SXX or TLOU do I sell to fund CBA? I shared my CBA returns between them and AVN (just a few ) when I closed my old broker.
Both seem good bets long term, but which is going to 'boom' first? I need to get it right!
TLOU seems obvious but the risks are greater imho. I'd be gutted to dump SXX and then find TG has it wrong.
My trust in directors has been unrewarded so far Fox(HMV) and Williams(AVN) both cost me dear , and all three of my current portfolio look horribly underpriced. I must be due for a major success but that 3 can be lucky (third time lucky) or a disaster (they come in 3's). It does not really matter to me, my wife's passing, means I only have the dog to worry about and she only costs a quid a day for food (and £3 a day for treats). I thought I'd be getting dividends from SXX by now when I first invested a decade ago. My boys (2 of them) will have the house to sell , a nest egg :O) , so the shares are just icing for them. Does your lad like dogs? Mine is so friendly and the only danger is being whipped by her tail or being licked to death (not slobbery). I rely on a mobility scooter for anything but short distances but we could go for a dog walk one day. Xch has several good walks.

Cheers Thornback, I have tried listening again and , once you decipher his words, the English is well written.
Took me three or four repeats to hear "after a long debate" (between the companies snd his ministers ) there is no proof of the gas being adequate yet. Once there is proof then it is all systems go , and his word was "immediately".

He did not say who the doubters were, but what if Sekaname cast doubts over our claims, and vice-versa?
Cannot see TG being able to do that, and he openly says there is room for both companies and more. Whether we have mutual respect I somehow doubt. Only one company wanted a giant order and would benefit from the leading company dropping out.

The other section that took several attempts to hear involved future progress. He said once it is known there is adequate gas then the CBM source of electricity supply would be "rammed up as long as the cost was both economic and affordable".

If TG is confident that we will see the expected gas flows, then his happy demeanour is prefectly obvious and why!
My worries about the Govt have been eradicated - it all makes sense - we just need the gas to be there and useable and that was always the case! In TG we trust?

https://www.facebook.com/mmgebotswana/videos/2329735997305771/
Pinched from ADVFN ,
Presented in English (which cannot be his main language), so skip to CBM at 7min 10s in imho .... it seems clear we are all keen to get the gas flow rates?

Bought 7500 TOU at $0.115 on ASX last night to check my IG platform works.
Deposit in sterling so fx to aud was required (IG do it for you) and costs totalled ?485.
That ?485 could have produced 7700+ @ 6.15p , and more than 7500 at 6.3p with x-o or ig, so the price in ASX is not appealing unless you have aud$ to trade with.

If I was to sell they'd convert the the aud$ back to sterling by default.
However you have an option to do it manually - in which case I'd have the option to keep the proceeds in $ or ?.
I want a $ account (multi-currency) so that is already in place!

We don't want people who get into a hole and can't stop digging, Bob.
Filtered long ago, so no idea what he has said.

Bruce would love to be as pretty as Brandon Flowers :O) .... it would be a retrograde step to look like Bruce.
What on earth were the Pet Shops boys wearing? They must have thought Glastonbury is in Iceland?
Big mistake imho to share the stage with them and that guest guitarist (never heard of him) who did not blend with Brandon in the slightest! I felt sad watching Neil Tennant , I like their stuff , but it was the wrong venue for them.

I'd hate to think what that journo would have said about him/them.

I ploughed my AUD$ share closures into TLOU and SXX and have to decide how to extract that money back now I have an AUD account again.

Do I split it 50/50 or what? Horrible decision. CBA have a dividend coming up but I've got a few weeks to decide.
Having sold at $73 they are now $83 having dropped from over $90 .... cannot believe they'll drop much more in the short term so a few days is more practical.

Killers at Glastonbury are amazing! Janet Jackson and Stormzy made me happy I did not pay £246 for stuff I wouldn't cross the street to listen to ..... how much weight do drummers lose at concerts .... looks exhausting!

I suspect Chris never trotted out the silly quotes at all.
And he certainly never claimed to get out of bed, go to work, and go to sleep again :0) - that is me at prest, work being watching TV from the settee, with a couple of dog trots - fox trots would be better if I could find a partner.

Rip Van Winkle more than Alice?

Very positive? Alice in Wonderland more like,
I got in fairly early and the early profits helped cancel later losses. Difficult to keep track but my profit on paper is probably less than 50% not 200% or 300%!

Latecomers are surely out of pocket.

"The company is only two years from producing polyhalite, which is used as fertiliser. And it has one of the biggest followings of private investors of any British firm – 85,000 at the last count. The annual meeting often attracts hundreds of private investors made wealthy by backing Sirius when it was a speculative minnow with unlikely ambitions on the junior AIM market.

Over the course of a nine-year journey littered with hurdles, Fraser has made most of them several times their investment with the firm valued at more than £1 billion today."

Hello mate, I think LSE may have kicked you off so this is a ROM message.

I have opened an IG account and they support CBA and TLOU on ASX
Instead of £20 commission at our favourite broker they charge 0.1% or $10 (aud) minimum for ASX.

1000 TLOU @ 6.15p comes to a grand total of £69.50 (£8 commission) whilst, at todays fx rate , 1000 @ 11c is only £66.58 ($10 or about £5.50) so they'll even beat X-O - happy days eh?
3 trades a quarter for no platform fees, else £24 a quarter ( but only if you hold shares - you can open an account in the blink of an eye and use a demo account with £10k dummy cash with no cost or risk).
Account totalling £15k is also free. CBA dividends here I come :O)

I have ad-block on Firefox and this version does not even reserve a rectangle for ads.
VPN used to cut off ads from the source - so, less annoying "page not found" appeared in the rectangle.
Don't need VPN on here so it is not running.

Looks similar to our MPs controlling their own salaries?

I guess they are compensating themselves for the dilution - never mind the rest of us!
Won't be long before we have more paper than polyhalite!

I have to smile at you engineers who twaddle on about latency on satellites.

I send a post and wait for the screen to echo it 30 seconds later - and we are worried about a few microseconds of latency :O)

Showing off , knowing the irritating two won;t want to see 2p against their posts :O)

LS have put the beta version live so you may be well advised to change you bookmarks from "beta" to "www" because it has improved my viewing. (was getting "page not found").

Just heard sausages are known as bangers because of the war years - they added a lot of water to them and they used to bang in the frying pan!

sxx, just changed my shortcuts from beta back to www and did not get "page not found" this time.

Just saw a documentary showing Venus and Serena and Dad when the girls looked either side of may 10 years old.
They asked Serena who she'd like to replicate when she is older.
Her reply was "I'd hope they will want to replicate me" - blooming amazing (not the exact words but the right meaning).

Will it still be 2p though :O)

I am using a laptop under Windows 10 - I expect you are on a mobile?
Most companies seem to focus on mobiles nowadays but perhaps LSE are looking after us old guys?

It looks like beta is live - I got page not found and "click here" for home page which does work.
Loaded another tab to see if my post had been accepted after I sent and got nothing back.
I sent again which now shows send is working but echo fails!

My bookmarks are to beta which then defaults to www at their end - teething troubles - don't be too hard on them please.