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I probably have got some indirectly with the trust funds in commodities and glencore etc and one I’ve been adding recently called anglo Pacific but they’re more royalties,only bought back as cheap and yielding quarterly and doing buybacks all the time.
I’ve dug into a big seam of ironstone rock but building with it is proving long winded as the shapes are so irregular....no gold though aaarghhhh.

Yes mate,the rain stops most things for me these days but better than black ice and the like so I should stop complaining lol.
Bp and shell seemingly out of favour but as you say once the wheels start turning again hopefully they and many others will perk back up. China is so strange,beyond my Ken and trumpy rattling the sabre...scary to think that the current finger on the trigger of the biggest pile of weapons is as erratic as that nutter in North Korea...weird haircuts conjoins them!
Stock picks are more about Lady Luck than anything I reckon but generally speaking the cream rises to the top of the milk...or maybe these days it sinks!

Thanks for the info, I’ll write that one off and if it ever returns it’ll be a nice surprise!
I got my brokers to move the dead ones to a graveyard account a few years back and most seem to quietly disappear over time but occasionally something comes back!

Hi everyone,wet day here so catching up on the shares. Still sitting on mega losses on most as I’m sure most are. Been adding Bp,bcpt and costain and a few little bits and bobs here and there. I’ve got my token tiddlers like wres,rockhoppers etc etc but none doing any good so just forgot about them. Also noticed a few seem to have disappeared like polo resources which I’m assuming went bust?
Also topped up on saga recently to get back to an even number after the OO and consolidation and worked out I’d added some at about 9p in old money and ironically I added at the new post cons price about the same figure I paid for the first lot lol.
Trees all on the turn now,nice colouring and I guess that’s all my news.
Hope everyone keeping safe (and dry!)

I do mate,always try to achieve something everyday be it growing stuff,cutting back,building,restoring something even painting something.
Always have a good chat with Wassatt when I’m up there so I’ll let him know we’ve been chatting. Take care you lot,catch up soon.

Always space at mine for proper landrovers mate.....not the new ones though as too expensive and blingy!!

You too mate...and get that landie fixed!!!

Don’t worry mate, I’ve got loads of comfrey etc keeping that lot busy!!

It’s always been my ‘desert island book’,some great stuff in there. Interesting how you’ve got that link with it all there too. Just copied and pasted it to my email so I’ve got it on the phone too,thanks for that.

This is the original spring fed one at the bottom of the field. We dug a couple of others a few years ago and a trench system to feed one but it was like a colander so dug a bit deeper and it’s all rock so I’m using that for stone facing walls now.
I remember when the lights went out summer of ‘88 after they ended dual miras relief and the bubble that preceeded it burst....the phones stopped ringing and offices shut within months of opening but that was the time insurers etc all jumped on the bandwagon,remember the pru were first to bale with a humiliating loss.
That time interest rates and repos,same again next crash and then the banking crash they propped it up as politically expedient I guess and lending quickly recovered. This one I can’t call it mate,we assume the wheels will come off but my best guess is that if it doesn’t overcook between now and March it won’t crashbang after either,just like a share that goes up too much(like dignity did recently as soon as I sold for a small profit!) will invariably come back just as quick?

The best book I’ve ever read and frequently refer to is the John Seymour Complete Guide to Self Sufficiency, a real muck and bullets approach to just about everything I get up to these days(except shares lol).
London property market has always been detached from reality so wouldn’t want to predict that one, elsewhere I guess it depends on all the usual factors of supply/demand,lending,confidence,job security etc etc and if our masters got one thing right it was the stamp duty holiday as it’s really got things moving.

The pond is nothing more than a bog these days mate but there’s heaps of wildlife around it as I’ve let it grow mostly wild after the drought a few years back when the heron stripped the last fish out. Plenty of amphibians and some moorhens etc thete now so don’t want to disturb them too much.
Property is a strange one because you’d think it would be tough going with everything going on but in the two areas I’ve got dealings as in North Somerset and Northants it’s genuinely going bonkers and folks reckon it’s because people want to get sorted before the next wave maybe and lifestyle choices like gardens are more important than ever, what they used to call the ripple effect moving out from the ‘sarf’ east and let’s face it what’s the point having some million quid shoe box with a glimpse of the Thames with a windowbox garden and a park nearby if you think there’s a chance you won’t be allowed out again?!!
Once the stamp duty holiday ends and maybe economic reality hits home it could be a different story but the activity levels and actual sales are certainly bucking the trend at the moment.

Looks like the guy who sold out for 1.3 billion quid wants it back for less and buying a premium placing alongside a discounted one so it’ll be an interesting open. Thankfully I’ve added a few recently over and above my original £1.30 ones!
Moving to be closer to the farm and joined the stampede on the stamp duty holiday. Strange how the resi market is so active whilst everything else is crashing through the floor but moves feed a long food chain so maybe it’ll help things along the way!
Dry weather very useful as putting in some more sheds etc and building bits and bobs with all the old bricks I’ve accumulated....mind you I’ve had to buy sand and cement so it’s not all freebies!!

Morning all, hope everyone doing okay?
Haven’t been doing much on shares of late as busy with proposed house moves and outside stuff when it’s not raining! Looks like it’ll be an interesting time for those of us holding saga next week.
Trees doing well up at the land and the small birds enjoying the sheds etc we put up last year now the trees giving them extra cover.

So the Romans brought their own animals as well as hot water plumbing and straight(ish) roads then!!
I guess as you say the changing climate will force our plants and animals to adapt or die.
Good idea with the beavers to get the watercourse and soil structures in tune.
My favourite of all animals the Jack Russell clearly a hybrid too!!
All the best to you and all too and I’ll relay the conversation when I chat to our dearly departed wassers tomorrow in his area if that’s the right term and if it makes sense.
I know a lot of folks like the zoom thing but I’ve never had cause to do it and multi screens or whatever it is seem a bit confusing to me....posting on lse and getting live prices on google are about my limit...oh and email lol!!
Have a good week all and catch up soon.

I don’t think the girlfriend would like it if I shot one as she’s into feeding them apples etc when we come up....difficult balance with country ways and part townies feeding wildlife!!!

Well I’m pretty sure my resident munties(muntjac) arn't native but I guess if we go back far enough nothing is really native including us!!

There’s an old spring at the bottom of a slope which feeds a pond/bog but the snakes like anything overgrown and the warmth of compost heaps,not adders thankfully!
Volatility certainly presents a few opportunities for trading it has to be said and quite often the broker has to do neg trades which I’m guessing because a lot of the makers are working from home so maybe there’s a disconnect on liquidity adding to it?

Thanks for that mate, makes me feel better about all my bonfires up there too!!

Well volatility certainly keeps us on our toes and makes it interesting!
As someone said to me recently it’s a gamblers market rather than investors these days as yields are now effectively gambling on future divs rather than current in a lot of my activities and we’re all looking for the next bounce rather than the next divvy perhaps more in my case anyway!!!
No idea on carbon credits mate but the wildlife enjoys it and there’s more hares,rabbits and a few muntjac around plus as the trees grow more birds making it home too. Woodland kind of creates its own eco-system....mind you I was horrified to see a meter long grass snake recently....thought it was a stick till I got closer and thankfully it cleared off straight away!