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China,the sleeping giant,is waking up......economic success can lead to all sorts of shenanigans just as we got too big for our boots after the industrial revolution and the yanks have after they asset-stripped us in the war, at least they’re wars of words not missiles and bombs atm gulp.
I’m in the early stages of building a new chicken house and making it with blocks/foundation from floor level as the foxes are about, quite interesting as I’m making it up as I go with stuff I’ve salvaged.

Don’t know enough about it other than if it stops anyone catching it in a roundabout way then it’s good but from the snippets I’ve seen on tv with a swab going to the back of the throat/up your nose(if that’s how they do it still) I just can’t see people getting into the habit of doing it.....whereas if they spent a billion on free pints of real ale for instance the take up would be better IMO lol.
Gosh you are protecting those frogs!!
We put some seedlings in the greenhouse and put the paraffin heater on by comparison.

It’s a bit different to yesterday for sure mate, very cold wind so activities limited today!
Interesting on the testing front, I guess the novelty will be good but going forwards I doubt people will take it up unless they have to?

No that’s the original spring fed one that’s always had water, the new dry ones we dug have been ‘repurposed’ lol.
Vineyards eh, not sure I’ve got space for them with the mixed natives and fruit trees growing up now but I’ll fit them in somewhere!!!
Hope you had a good Easter mate, no markets tomorrow,how dull is that!

A job that has to be done mate, been putting up new sheep wire,digging holes,creosoting fence posts(it’s not actual creosote these days but with a bit of old engine oil mixed in to compensate) and a multitude of other good weather jobs but no pongy pond clearance as leaving the big one wild,got Moorhens in there at the moment too!

Happy Easter you lot!! Hope everyone doing okay and enjoying the sunshine ahead of the big freeze tomorrow!!

And as far as SP predictions go I'm as in the dark as everyone else but I’m kind of looking at return on cash invested as in income as the main driver for these and the property ones with that ‘Hope factor’ that any share could rocket unexpectedly and as irritating as it can be when they go the wrong way if there’s a good chance of income/yield being paid now or in the near future I try and see ‘averaging down’ as opportunity....sort of!!!! GLM

Happy to sit on this one as it’s highly defensive and tobacco is a captive market,albeit not popular like oil is becoming maybe in some circles but the yield is a big cushion.
On BCPT(sorry off topic), I averaged down massively last year and think the assets they hold irrespective of the balance sheet are a good hedge against inflation and give potential offside as foreign money always heads for London plus the negative views that no one will ever sit in an office again blah blah blah are overdone IMO....the monthly yield along with EPIC are my reasons for holding.

P.s. very similar story on the IMB’s. I started at 25 which is bizarely where I started on the BATs!!!

Sounds like you’re watching a lot of share movements there mate, I think if you’re focused then small and regular profits are achievable with all the modern tools of live prices etc as quite often the intraday prices do move!
Got quite a few matches with your core holdings there.
My biggest holding is BCPT which is a monthly yielder of 0.35 of a penny and the nav is 40% higher so I’ve been adding around 70 and the ex div drop just doesn’t happen due to the frequency!
Looks like a solid ex drop here today but happy to hold as still sitting inside my self-imposed parameters!!
Good luck with the trading mate,catch up soon.

They love spending it don’t they! That’s a staggering amount of dosh...and debt!
Having to be a bit careful with the lifting after that hernia a few years back but taking a tea and fag break helps lol
We were young once, I remember making a few Bob on my first trade( in lonrho ) and if I’d lost money I probably wouldn’t have ever got into shares.

I’m surprised it took him this long to start that again, I think Biden framed it as ‘nothing has changed’?!!

I think I was expecting something straight away and when it all seemed normal I got stuck into concreting a base etc so the next day was a tad overdone anyway and felt a bit flu-ish but after a good nights kip back to normal plus the good feeling of getting there before our euro frenemies helped lol!!
The old sell in may thing might not happen so much maybe as loads still ‘working’ from home and I’ve noticed a lot of my younger friends mucking around with crypto trading and getting interested in shares over the last year....hopefully they’ll heed my meanderings about divs,ISA’s and reinvesting divs for the longterm in boring shares but I doubt it somehow!!

Evening all, hope everyone doing on okay?
Had a slight reaction a day after the jab but thankfully short lived, some say they had nothing,others totally knocked out for a day or so!
Couldn’t afford the time to be out of action when we’ve had a few dry and warm(ish) days on the farm lol. A few trades here and there but mostly sitting around waiting for divs and trying not to buy and sell stuff outside the core holdings for the sake of it.

Well the one thing we can be sure of is that share prices will either rise or fall for all sorts of reasons and it’s always interesting swapping ideas and views with other holders.
From a trading perspective it’s all about the share price for sure,timing and luck!!
I guess from my position it’s all about maximising income from the major part of my p/f and replacing 8% with any confidence it’ll return that isn’t easy.....plus I have to admit after being in a perpetual loss in IMB I’m quite enjoying actually being in profit in a tobacco company, pure vanity!!
Noticed you mentioned NCYF recently, got quite a few of them plus a few other good quarterly yielders like DGOC,HFEL,ASEI to name a few aside from the obvious ones.
With the BATS I’m going to sit tight and add/reduce on a wide parameter of 25-35 depending on what else is around at the time I guess.

Personally if I was going to play the divvy game I’d look to bag the div and sell intraday at the earliest opportunity/best SP I could and have the divvy in the ‘pipeline’ so to speak but we all have our own strategies and it’s our own money. Longterm I’m happy to sit on this quarterly payer having got in at the right time which is somewhat different to IMB which has been my biggest paper loss for years lol. GLA

They were only yielding a penny a quarter but I’ve got things like glencore still. I keep an income pot alongside all the other stuff and the lure of more yield in bats or whatever it was at the time won the battle. If I was to disregard howlers like petrofac,hammerson etc I’d say I’m doing okay but those of us that owned shares before Covid and before the banking crisis have still got a big hill to climb on a longer view!
I don’t think I could ever live in or anywhere near a thatched roof with my pyromaniac tendencies mate!!

It looks a bit crowded but I’ve got that penchant for diversity and divs so all into the big mix! They’ve finally come good and I shifted them recently as it happens.
Just done a makeshift roof with some old tiles and was surprised they were still on after recent windy weather....send them over bud!!

Tbh if my mate ever tried my attempts at home brew he’d be spending days on the composting field toilets!! I’ve had more luck on aim shares than homebrew but it was good tomato feed!

Not this time mate, put into a quarterly yielding solar fund, my version of green washing lol!!
Been busy with building and prepping,planting etc....when it’s not raining!! I don’t really buy much as make use of stuff people want rid of and a bit of paint,repair etc makes all the difference. One of my mates was quite impressed I’ve been using beer bottle caps as washers for instance!