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Sundance, I feel sad that even now you & others can't grasp what happened. I advertised the fact my mortgauge was due & it happened the SP was 90p - 10% off the top. The mood at the time was very optimistic, although the SP had drifted from £1 to 90p. I had always been wondering how I might pay off my mortgage & was very fortunate that things aligned. I sold a chunk because I had to, not for any other reason. You state I must have been in 'the know'...but getting information out of James Parsons was like getting blood out of stone. If only you guys could appreciate that fact. He was generous & a friend. I spent many hours with him & he gave me the honour of giving a speech to investors at the Shard...but never once did he let anything slip regarding price sensitive information. He was truly professional in that regard. I loved every day of being a Sound Energy investor & have very fond memories...but nothing nefarious happened & there were no secrets divulged..

I just had the best time climbing up oil rigs, meeting really cool people & having fun.

Crude...nothing to see hear...move on.

Dear Kylie,

Thank you for pointing out my misspelling of the word 'innovative'. I pride myself in my sentence construction & grammar but using my cell phone on this awful LSE platform, I sometimes miss key. However, I have noted on many occasions your linguistic lapses & casual spelling but have until now, been far too polite to allude to them. But it did get me thinking that maybe the content of your posts is constructed in the same casual manner. Don't get me wrong, I am not a member of the 'Grammar Police...just saying.

Yours as ever,

Crude

I hope you guys are right. I'll say no more & see what transpires. I'm not going anywhere anytime soon....

Tanfich, let's get this straight; GL did not save the Company - James Parsons did! GL is as yet unproven. He hasn't saved anyone. He talks the talk but is he just another snake oil salesman...we're just the mugs who buy it......

Tanfinch, what we need now is a proactive CEO who is dynamic & pro shareholders. Private investors must count for something. We cannot be diluted any more. Raising cash at these prices has been done to death with Gerry Orbell. JP at least tried to be innovative. The present management need to be just as financially innovative as James Parsons & reassure investors that they still have a chance to redeem at least some of their capital. The sands of time are slipping through the glass & eventually there will come a reckoning. Do something possitive GL & do it soon. Give us a sign for fuuuuks sake, it's nearly Christmas!

Crude....

Kylie, how long do you think GL has before investors turn on him in the same way they did with JP? At least JP saved this company from certain doom after GO had drowned us in shares. GO was playing high stakes with loose change in the Far East. JP " inovatively" financed us, redeemed us from Indonesia, withdrew us mostly from Italy & bagged all that license area in Morocco. Unfortunately we failed with Badile but scored a hit with TE6 in Morocco. I can't see the present Management have had anything like the success JP & his team had. The foundations were laid down in the sand but so far, precious little has come of it. I have to say I'm not impressed so far!

Kylie, it's frustration on my part. I've been here nearly 15 years so - some house guest!.

Crude.....no need for floaters.............

Soundboy, I remember it well. I've travelled all over the world & had some great holidays - but that trip to Morocco stands as one of the best. I couldn't have been in better company on both trips & East Morocco was a revelation. I only wish it was possible to repeat - with the same guys - in the same quest - to really switch that gas on & turbo charge our stock price! Come on GL, there are an awful lot of loyal Sound Energy shareholders waiting patiently for some really possitive news. Its cards on the table time: put up or.....

Crude...you finish the sentence Mr GL.

Soundboy, I remember it well. I've travelled all over the world & had some great holidays - but that trip to Morocco stands as one of the best. I couldn't have been in better company on both trips & East Morocco was a revelation. I only wish it was possible to repeat - with the same guys - in the same quest - to really switch that gas on & turbo charge our stock price! Come on GL, there are an awful lot of loyal Sound Energy shareholders waiting patiently for some really possitive news. Its cards on the table time: put up or.....

Crude...you finish the sentence Mr GL.

Yesterday, all our troubles seemed so far away, now it looks as though there here to stay. Suddenly, we're not half the company we used to be, there's a debt hanging over we. Why he had to go, I don't know, he wouldn't say, he did something wrong & now he longs for yesterday. Yesterday, O&G was such an easy game to play, now he needs a place to hide away, but I believe in yesterday...........

Crude....at least the Beatles are number 1 in the singles charts with 'Now & Then'!!

Sweet-talking BS or straight-talking BS...what's the difference? To speak one's mind as the current management does or to imagine the possibilities of what has been already realized but what might yet happen? To be, or not to be, that is the question. However you present the case, nothing tangible has yet been realized through the conduit of the share price, & after all, that's what counts in these continuing days of austerity forced on us all by ever-increasing costs! On the contrary, the SP has been in decline for years now. How is the current manager more successful than the previous incumbent? At least he had tangible success & everyone thought their dreams could be realised & who knows if he might not have brought these projects to a speedier conclusion? However way you look at it: one was sweet talking, the other supposedly straight talking - but it all amounts to the same thing.....................................

Crude...don't talk to me about JP in the same breath you defend GL - what's the difference?

Mebo, remember that taxi drive from Oujda to the coast & the seafood restaurant? One of the two dubios looking taxis broke down...I was never that confident in the first place!

That trip to Tendrara was amazing. 6 hours there & back...I was knackered after that! But we never had the full access to the rig that we had at TE6. You could climb all over that thing with a hard hat & a pair of safety boots!

My mate Ray (Uncas) was so incredibly dextrous with his amazing Yoga. He even performed on the border wall with Algeria....I have it all on film. Those were the days & why I'm still invested. This project will succeed because it has to...for the sake of Morocco & our poor, beleaguered shareholders.

BTW, how are you mate? Apart from being older...like the rest of us...lol!

Cheers. Crude

Mr Wolfe, yes I know who you mean & yes, he is of Asian background & a good friend of mine. Sorry to dissapoint but there were no inducements or brown envelopes stuffed with tenners. He just thought size of the field was uncertain & just decided to take his films down. After all, they were his to do as he pleased. He is still invested & I was having a chat with him the other day.

Cheers, Herr Krudenhoffe...zieg hiel!

Very amusing, tableleg...

Crude....

Sadly, I'm no longer in touch with JP. I don't have his contact details because he must have changed them... I'm sure for very good reasons. But he at least got our tiny AIM O&G financed & extricated from the very expensive Indonesian & Italian projects & introduced us to Morocco. We went from being almost insolvent & known only for a string of dusters - to opening a potentially huge gas field in Morocco. I know you all love the present management & what they are doing....but James Parsons & his team laid the foundations for future success. Without his innovative finance schemes & daring drillls we would have become yet another AIM casino that went big & broke! Some people have no idea what nearly happened at the end of Gerry Orbell's tenure . Every building & project needs a Sound foundation...JP gave us that & saved us from drowning in share dilution. For that, I will be eternally grateful.

Yours, as always, Crude

I could ask the same about your purpose for posting. We post because we are 'invested'. Sometimes we are overly optimistic & sometimes we are not so. But with you there is no variance. Is that a natural state of being for a person with a vested interes? You tell us....

Kylie, there is no point in me "challenging" anything. It will either happen or it will not. But all these conspiracy theories regarding me are typical of folk who either think they know better or there must be a more rational explanation to back up their twisted beliefs. Sometimes what you read is actually true & often boring. My final mortgage payment was due & the sp was 90p. I owed £66 K & decided the moment was right to conclude my mortgage.the SP was falling from a record high of just over £1 per share so I thought rather than wait for it to drop more, I sold. A very good friend of mine had a leveraged bet & rather than risk a margin call at 55p, he sold at 75p. Had I known anything I would have advised him earlier. He's a good mate from the North East & believe you me I would have warned him....had I any knowledge or suspicion. Sometimes the truth doesn't fit the narrative of posters who are naturally suspicious. Sometimes the truth is just boring. Sometimes on the AIM people get lucky. And sometimes those people are brought down because of other investors bad luck or stupidity!

As always, Crude

Kylie, what you conveniently don't recall is that when I sold a quantity of shares at 90p I actually anounced it, before I sold. I even said I was paying my mortgage off. Where your logic & that of others fails is that if I was supposedly 'in the know', why didn't others follow the imagined 'Pied Piper'? The reason is no one really believed or was prepared to back their (faulty) judgement! It is so easy to condem in hindsight but to back your real-time judgement - that's not so easy. So much more convenient to jump on the bandwagon & lynch the fella for something he was innocent of...but then when did a lynching ever need cold, hard facts!

Kylie, remind why you are here? Is it not an option for you to cut your losses & run? If you are drowning under your purchase price wouldn't it be better for you to be hopeful & sit on those shares - or sell? Or maybe you've been here too long & grown bitter? I don't think you have been here as long as me & quite a few others. I've got pragmatic about the whole thing but also very optimistic that Morocco needs local energy & one day we will supply it. Hopefully, at that point, I'm still alive!

Cheers all....Crude

Oh dear, what's happening here. Could be nearly time for a top up. They do say no news is good news...but who said that & what was it about? They obviously werent a trader of stocks or they wouldnt have uttered that BS! News is what we want & it better be good! No news is driving the stock into the ground!

Other than that, etc & so on........

Crude