Roundtable Discussion; The Future of Mineral Sands. Watch the video here.
Right I'm in charge here until Queenie gets back from The Isle of Wight so if you have anything to say lets be having it ! "In my Liverpool Home" was written by a great Liverpool socialist called Peter McGovern he died five or six years ago and was well known for being a Red in more ways than one so any reference to a superior Everton wouldn't be the original but a version by one of the many talented Evertonion song writers or artists over the years, not sure if you know but the reference to " A statue exceedingly bare" refers to the huge statue of a naked well endowed man over Lewis's ,it was a popular place to meet in the sixties when arranging a date " I'll see you at half seven under the man" the beauty was if you got stood up there was usually somebody else of the opposite sex in the same boat hanging around so you got another chance. I'd forgot about Beaky, he didn't seem the type to just stop posting even though we did give him some home truths but if you haven't come across him on your travels then maybe he is in jail or traveling the world escorting his outstandingly beautiful and talented daughter who was destined for big things in the modeling world after getting a first from Oxford or somewhere, then again he may be just mad busy delivering all those on line goods in his white van. I'll take my £250 profit if it's still there next week it will pay for dinner and accommodation at Gatwick on our last night here at the end of the month Have a great holiday down there and I hope the weather is not as bad as it is here at the moment. catch you next week x http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeX11hXkUo8v
Just had a knee jerk reaction and applied for £10k s worth of Royal Mail with my XEL money hopefully for a quick in and out, I suspect like me and Sally your sentiments are anti denationalization but please wish me luck as I wave you goodbye !
My position with Kaz is bought in @ 3.43 and could have taken about 15% profit within a day or two but decided to hang on in, I’ve started my withdrawal from AIM selling my XEL holding at 1.18 on Friday at a decent profit, I need all the cash can muster to put into my US venture but will not let Kaz or BLVN go until they are in profit regardless of how long it takes, I know ignoring them is not necessarily the right strategy and selling them at a loss to invest somewhere else might be but I have too much going on to research or trade at the moment. By the way the way good luck with you search for your Alter ego Shipyard Sally x http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lKwXwU5iWs
He’s an easy target over there on PFD Queenie maybe I should be taking Blue Eyes and ulvers on instead but you seem to be sorting her for me in good style, my time spent at the airport Hilton was in the good old days when I carried a company Barclay Card and a Hilton Honours diamond card so never worried too much about price’s but believe me I do now. I didn’t mind the only cruise we’ve been on over to Cozumel out of Miami but it’s not for Mrs C she is definitely a confirmed land lubber so that’s my cruising days over as well, it’s unlikely that she would want me going on my own after seeing the antics from some of the more desperate looking singles of both sexes aboard ours. Enjoy your lunch I remember you missing out on Kaz at £7.75 when ironically down the mine!, I’m off to the gym now for a couple of hours followed by a bowl of “Fruit and Fibre” I need a healthy week after a weekend blowout on a little golfing trip to North Norfolk played Kings Lynn on the way over to Cromer and played Royal Cromer on Sunday which was quite tough after competing pint for pint with my much younger companions followed by a Madras curry. Have a good one. Cheers
I’m with your son at this time of year I think I’d prefer the Isle of Capri to The Isle of Wight, I went there once on a ferry from Sorrento ( Capri not Wight !) after driving down from Kettering via a music festival in Reims, then Zurich and Genoa where I got very very drunk on Mc Ewans Export of all things, not something you would associate in a little harbour bar on the site where Christopher Columbus set sail in search of The New World, I had to be led back to the hotel by Mrs Caff where I was very unwell fortunately not something that happens too often. The Hilton Edinburgh Airport is an old haunt of mine, I stayed there quite a often, attended a few functions and used it as a handy meeting place when flying up from Manchester before taking the flying coffin to Inverness and sometimes beyond to the exotic Stornoway or Kirkwall. I’m also thinking of getting out of this den of iniquity as soon as I’m back to break even at least, I’m currently holding mostly BLVN (-39%) XEL +26% and a small amount of KAZ (-27%) and even smaller amounts of EVO (39%) and RRL (-64%) overall thanks to XEL just being my main holding over BLVN the overall situation is (-16%) I’ll be needing some cash in the next month or so and intend to cash in my profitable XEL and let the rest stay for as long as it takes. Here’s one from the most famous resident of Capri, I could imagine this role would suit you in real life ! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76epZXpOO3U Enjoy your jollies and don't forget your umbrella speak soon x
"Vouchers for 3 course dinners with champagne cocktails and afternoon teas for the next year" with my 500 quid ! that's my Ho Wong dream shattered then, enjoy the I.O.W been down to the Hampshire coast a few times but never been over I hear it's very nice but Fernie will be disappointed to have missed you x
Thanks for all that Queenie I really appreciate you taking time out to share your considerable experiences on these boards with me, we don’t get Mc Avennie down here but I watched many an episode late at night from hotel rooms across the Central Belt and The Highlands, very funny sketch and the subtly placed the bottle of Irn Bru on the dining table didn’t escape me. Just averaged down this morning with my BLVN as you rightly say I don’t spend my day trading and I don’t even have L2 as I did a few years ago, when I was on ADVFN it began to take over every minute of my day even when I was in the states the screen was always on blinking away in the background, I’ll wait until they go back over a £1 as I’m sure they will do eventually, I just hate selling at a loss even though I know you have to if you want to trade short term. Spent Saturday night in Liverpool with my sons, Daughter-in -Laws and a group of younger than me friends celebrating my older sons fortieth birthday, the highlight of the night was my nephew Adam who got as far as the final T.V auditions for the voice this year in London and is a very talented Guitarist/Vocalist took over the mike and borrowed the guitar of a local busker for a fiver before having the City Centre bouncing with an impromptu performance at midnight. Last word on my spat with the BLVN mafia, there are some very good posters on there and they obviously have some good banter but some of these little cliques gang up on what they see as an outsider gate-crashing THEIR forum, I was tempted to have a go letting them know it’s a members forum and unless you’ve been banned for obviously ramping / de-ramping or being offensive you are entitled to your opinion but I can’t be ar$ ed Hope you are over your bout of flu and to keep on topic here make sure you spend your OML divi wisely. x
Hope you're feeling better Queenie, I've just popped in to see a friendly face as I seem to be upsetting the clique over on BLVN, and though I'm tempted to get involved and defend myself I've decided I would be banging my head against a brickwall, some people just can't accept that the boards are for all members to express their views and not just for the peeps who agree with every word. Ah well It's not usually in my nature but they can have the last word this time, have a nice weekend x
Still undecided with what to do with my PFD cash I’m thinking of either in here medium term or averaging down on my dog of a share BLVN and leaving it long term or until it’s back over a £1. Bit of a mystery with all of Tuscans posts being wiped as you say he’s not been even slightly offensive or controversial so I can’t imagine anybody complaining like The Manx Man did about me. So sorry to hear you are coming down with the flu and hope you get well soon you're gonna be missed across the boards for sure, here’s a little track from a Floridian to keep you going. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_sf_R5WPX4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTVodS3aqdU An ironic Hey Jude comment on YouTube made me chuckle ! "Beatles r nt as good as 1D!!! they havn't even been on x-factor n their hair just copies justin beeber wish they wud split up! they suck!!!!!!" x
I'll be trading as normal and definitely still stalking you across the boards while I'm in the US it's much more entertaining than American TV, then again so is having your ar$e rubbed with a brick. I've never had a problem trading through my HL Fund & Share account or HL Stocks & Share ISA accounts during my winter trips but as you say the timing can be a problem especially if I'm expecting or hoping for an RNS and then like a kid at Christmas who can't wait I'm logging on at 3am thankfully very rarely. I'm not nearly as well researched as you and trade very much on gut feel and hearsay but I feel quite relaxed about Kaz eventually hitting £4 which is a little below my exit price, It's not to big a holding or a problem for me unlike BLVN which is nearly half my portfolio and 33% down a good example of not doing my own research and falling for a very good Pump&Dump scheme. Speak Soon
Unlike Sir Terry there's no way Julian was born in a South Liverpool Prefab they might as well have called him Sue, no self respecting scouser would lumber a kid around there with a name like that in the fifties even if was good enough for Lennons lad in another place in later years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOHPuY88Ry4
You clever girl finding for finding such a nice quiet spot for a chat I hope there are no peeping toms hanging around. I’ve got mixed opinions regarding HMV, I know the shareholders got duped and there are a lot of decent ordinary people out there who have lost money they couldn’t afford but as such a late comer my £500 was an out & out gamble and I knew it was a 50/50 risk so I'm not complaining. On the other hand it’s good to see the HMV brand thriving, just a couple of weeks ago on a lovely sunny day I was having lunch with Mrs C outside a very nice little Italian bistro in Leamington Spa, the HMV store opposite was heaving with young people and belting out some of that modern noise which even though you tap your feet you can’t put the name of the track or artist to it. I checked online at the table which is not very romantic but most people seem to spend as much time on the I Phone nowadays as they do holding hands or conversing and we were running out of things to say about the folk passing by, anyhow I discovered that the store opposite was destined for closure and had the notice posted in the window announcing the date and informing the public that the nearest store to stay open would be Stratford upon Avon, however after negotiating with the landlords over the lease and meeting with the staff it was able to stay open, a story I have no doubt that was repeated in many towns and Cities throughout the UK which has helped to maintain some vibrancy in the high street but more importantly created hundreds of jobs which are more secure now than they were before I lost my £500. I know you have a photographic memory for your sparring partners on these boards and I can’t find any of our old posts from HMV but what was the name of that old boy friend of yours who told us the high street was finished? I’m going down to the gym for a couple of hours and then to do a bit of shopping in the high street so I’ll catch you later if your about x
........ Queenie this is a nice quiet little place to meet but not quite as intimate as a booth in the Ho Wong , I’m still holding a small amount of KAZ and not far from break even so I’m going to hang on in for at least 25% , not sure about my likeness to our old mutual friend but I wouldn’t mind being a couple of shillings behind him and fair play like Terry Leahy who progressed from a prefab in south Liverpool to head up the most successful period of Tesco’s history, it just goes to show that not all scousers grow up to be comedians or criminals (Fernie excepted). Had a cracking but tiring weekend just got back, Frankie Valli is definitely my era and any Four Seasons stuff takes me back to good place if you get the chance to see the Jersey Boys I can highly recommend it even if it’s a bit before your time, we got a second helping of the four seasons in Hyde Park on Sunday fortunately as festival veteran’s we were well prepared and managed to use up the full complement of our backpacks as the weather fluctuated from heavy rain and cold wind to glorious sunshine and mid-seventies, jumpers were on and off, umbrella’s up and down and even the emergency waterproof ponchos and the factor thirty sun block got used, but with the beer at a very reasonable £4.40 a pint for a festival and your fellow Scott’s Simple Minds and the incomparable Sharleen Spiteri performing it was well worth getting knackered for. Your weekend with the Zombies sounds a little weird but interesting and good fun which is exactly what I’d expect from your good self, BTW is this going to be our new secret meeting place or had I better buy a few so as not to upset the regulars x https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V90AmXnguw
Expecting better than expected trading statement on Thursday if they cleared everthing out with the profits warning, pity about the oil price though,did you hang on in Newdad ?
Thanks Milkome, very informative .
Thanks Milkome, how likley is it that they will be able to recover 5ppl ? and will their competiitors do the same or go after key customers ?
Quote from Chairman Robert Wiseman to The Independent on the 17th Feb "Steadily rising oil prices – sent to more than $100 this month by the political crisis in Egypt – are a double hit for Robert Wiseman, the 1,500-strong truck fleet and plastic bottle requirements adding £8m on to the company's costs with every $10 rise in the global price. Meanwhile, two of the biggest supermarkets, Asda and Tesco, have committed to permanently lower milk prices, with the rest expected to follow. And soaring farm-gate prices have seen both Robert Wiseman and rival Dairy Crest increase their payments to farmers from the start of next month" The oil price has moved up $5 a barrel since the interview with unrest now in Lybia, they will also struggle to recover the farm gate price increase from the market place especially from Tesco and Asda, looks like a long road now especially if you bought before the profit warning.
As near a certainty to go over £3.50 in the medium to short term as you will get, all the bad news and more was put out with the profit warning, just took a dip after the 18p dividend was up and have probably bottomed, first sign of anything positive and they will fly, don't be surprised to see a better than forecast results announcement, they have a great history of delivering for shareholders as you would expect when the family still hold so many.
Orbiter Am I missing something ? which directors have made significant buy's since the profit warning ?