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Hope you’re all doing okay, more of the same this end,planting and cutting back and put a ‘Wassatt corner’ plaque on a post the other day where I planted a few trees after we lost him. Never been a great fan of online etc but you lot have always been great friends in this posting world we live in and he was always such a friendly bloke and sorely missed by us all.
Mostly divvy stuff with the odd punt here and there since we last caught up, nothing standout. Catch up soon guys.

And an impressive geographical reach, Australian holdings too in the big mix, sometimes I look into the holdings these diversified trusts have and to get that variety on individual holdings would be quite prohibitive on costs alone!
Good chatting, all the best mate.

The 6ppq seems to be nailed on now(however they generate it lol), and like you say hopefully we’ll see the underlying holdings increase the SP with recovery in this geographical reach, China particularly has been held back so long with their covid measures imo.
The dividend history here has been impressive over the years, hate the term but it does ‘do what it says on the tin.’

Same old if you ask me!
If I don’t like a company for some reason and I felt compelled to knock it constantly I’d just sell and invest in something that I do agree with!
Looking forward to our next 6pps in a couple of weeks mate.

It was pointed out recently that the queries relating to dividend stripping could have been addressed by those obsessing about them….but didn’t.
It was also suggested by ade I think that those of us who are positive about this trust were somehow on the payroll of the fund or their agents…..I suggested this allegation be withdrawn and it was disregarded as was my first point here.
If the fund generates reliable income as it does,and I believe a surplus to reserves, frankly who cares?
Whether it’s a fund or individual holding we all have the ability/option to chose wherein we invest and if a poster or posters continue to chastise the holding then I would speculate they have an axe to grind or personal grievance and this platform should be for more grown up debate in my opinion that a persistent regurgitation about how a trust generates regular income…..the clue is in the name GLA

Cheers Woody, you too mate.

Encouraging as ever to see a director buy, albeit modest.

Hi Sain, a friend of mine asked me to investigate a few properties they’d singled out before they book viewings the last few days and every single one had a good chat with the agents except you know who…..automated answerphone message telling me to go online, what a nonsense and frankly would put me off the property in a market where instructions and reductions are blossoming.
I fail to understand why any vendor would instruct these type of agents,total false economy on fees etc!

Didn’t realise animals were prone to it, been more concerned with bird flu here and restricting our hens still.

Hi Mick, cheers for that. These things normally recover at some point, surprised they made that announcement in a trading statement though?
There seems to be a lot of it around at the moment but few seem to be overly bothered about it compared to when it first came out. Let’s hope all those vaccines we had do the trick.
Sleet can easily go either way mate, luckily I’m set up with 4WD etc although if there’s ice under it doesn’t really matter how many wheels are driving!!

Cheers for the link troj, got an average of 275 and I’m not averaging down with no yield so will sit it out and grumble quietly lol.

I try not to worry about any of them if I can help it mate, my focus is all on divs these days and I’m more diversified than ever but have a few larger legacy holdings in things like persimmon,direct line and a couple of bigger trusts and with hindsight I’d have reduced them all to spread the risk more. Less in more/more in less strategies both have their advantages and disadvantages but as a friend once said, the only true profit is dividends and I’m more on board with that now because any gains I made on specy/ recovery things were dwarfed by the losses! Each to their own really.

Hi nom, got a mixed bag of them and trusts and take a view with 40/50% discounts to nav there’s a bit of a cushion but what do I know!

Didn’t realise coal was that much now, luckily I stockpiled that and logs when covid hit so doubt I’ll need to buy anymore for a few years lol.
Forecast is snow next week!

I’ve always looked at the market being detached from reality and forward facing or even totally irrational so I just have lots of holdings, diversify and hope for the best. I rarely look into them too deeply as I’ve got no control over what might happen.
Private sector as usual being squeezed to pay for the public sector.

Forecast is more cold stuff, maybe something me white stuff next week brrrr! We’ve put a couple of small ponds in recently and added sedge clumps etc to oxygenate and still planting blackthorns etc all over the place.
Having a bad day on shares with direct line canning the divvy, how inconvenient is all I can say as now stuck on a chunkier loss than persimmon!
I’ve seen igas and was half tempted recently when they were in the teens and keep looking at tower res but with so many reits etc knocking around on steep discounts I’m adding to them instead.

Afternoon all, another rainy day again…my ponds now overflowing nicely troj and no complaints about the drought of last summer now!
Hope everyone doing okay?

Hi Woody, you’re welcome mate. All risk and anything can happen but that’s what we do!! All the best too mate.

Creeping up in line with the nav imo and unlike EAT which I’m sure some of you also hold, a far more attractive dividend/income prospect. Agree with the posts here that capital growth secondary.

This one has always been a volatile share,even back in the days when it was trinity mirror! Year range says it all, traded it a few times over the years and in for a few this morning around 79, add dilemma sixties,sell dilemma 105/110 depending on confidence of the divvy going forwards. GLA