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Hi TomE, Can I join in? For all non-believers on this forum. 😁

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcjzHMhBtf0&list=RDVcjzHMhBtf0&start_radio=1

'I come in peace.' Yes, that's what Starfleet says. Whether you believe it or not depends on if you're a Klingon. LOL.

I'm just kidding. 😁 I've been binge watching Discovery (formulaic rubbish). Enjoy your day. 😁

Qapla, DaH jImej

Of course, MattyBoy, what I forgot to say is, you'll go private but your wife will have the same NHS surgeon probably. Just a lot earlier.

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MattyBoy, A huge congratulations on your wedding to you and your wife. You were right to go private. Before I retired, we were being told to cut NHS waiting lists from 3 to 2 to 1.5 and then 1 year, by taking the patients who had been quietly waiting on the lists for the longest, off the list, without telling them. That's right. Without telling them. Instructions from management? If a patient has waited for over a year without contacting us, they don't need the op. All so the Government can say waiting lists are down, and now the Gov has had to come out and say that the NHS has not seen all patients who are off the lists. Of course, it's the elderly English population, war generation, who believe everything they are told and who get stuffed for it. If you are on a waiting list, put in a complaint, push, push, push, and phone every 3 months to say you still want your place on the list.

Lovely thread, everybody. Have a great weekend. xxx

Cheers TMT 😀

Thanks Doozer 😀

Thanks Droverman. It was an NHS hospital, and the lunches and dinners were great.

Thanks Doozer77. Best news is, my oncologist says no more chemo cos my body doesn't like it, so it's surgery next. When the junior doctors come back, of course. 😂 😂 😂 Does anything ever change?

I didn't join this at 1 or 2p SP, but even so, the gains this company has made since I joined, especially with SD on board, are amazing, and with a management team like we have I see lots of goods things to come.

ALB xx

To get checked into a 5 star hospital for pancytopenia (all ok now) and when I get out I read this absolutely fantastic news about tungsten and Hav, and the SP rising steadily. Brilliant. I missed all the worry and got all the good news. What more could anyone want? Anyone taking time out from the SP-watching to watch Artemis instead tomorrow? I will be.

ALB xx

It is relevant, Speedy. At this price, now I have to buy more. (Grumble, grumble, moan, moan.)

I hope everybody's well and looking forward to some warmer weather.

ATB xxx

Hi MattyBoy1965, Yes, funeral costs can still be paid out that way, but it's easier to use money from a Joint Account. And as you know, the 'Tell Us Once' code from the registrar helps immensely, at a time when the person left to organise the funeral is grieving.

Anyhow, on a lighter note, I'm looking for some good gains from Greatland this year. I'm wondering if SD intends to have any more JVs with any more junior partners?

Happy New Year all

Hi MattyBoy, Yes, and it's useful to have a Joint Current Account with a parent, (and put enough in it for funeral costs which is currently about £5 or 6K) which will not be frozen when they pass, unlike all their other accounts which are frozen until Probate has been granted which can take a few weeks or a year. It's the inventory of the Estate I'm not looking forward to.

Cheers

Happy New Year TomE. 😃

Does anyone remember Billy Bass? Now, this is a true story, not a joke. The elderly great grandfather of a family I know passed, and he left Billy Bass. Well, nobody wanted Billy so my friend (a nephew, who didn't want Billy either) organised a family raffle as to who would get Billy. He drove hundreds of miles up north with Billy on the back seat to the family gathering - and he won the raffle! ha ha

All right Freddie2, I agree with you - I would give to them. Macmillan are wonderfully supportive to me, my mum, my daughter's best friend, my sister-in-law and one of her friends - who all have the same. Even my taxi driver from the hospital recently and his sister who had it (they're in the clear now). I look to Greatland as a long term investment to gift to my beneficiary. I'm saving regularly into a cash ISA for my granddaughter's uni fund. She's 4 months old, so a few years to go. Now that's forward planning!

Yes, TomE, I will indeed bin that person.

ATB

Victorocto, On 24th December you wrote, 'I personally in my sipps have over 40 stocks mainly ftse 100 and also dividend payers 29k this calender year.' So how do you distinguish yourself from the other posters on here who have amassed fortunes, over a lifetime, I am guessing, of their hard work and sensible planning? I'm sorry, I'm lost. Are you saying we should have all followed the lead of sheep who spend thousands on foreign holidays every year and spend every penny and end up in a small, drab council flat, on welfare benefit, never looking to provide for our retirement and old age when we all get sick and need savings the most? It's our money, hard earned, and we've already paid tax on the majority of it. I am certainly not greedy and I don't like being called greedy. I don't give to charity because I worked in charities so I know most of the money goes on admin and directors' salaries, and charity belongs at home. I always say to my daughter, 'You can have it as long as I have it'. And you know what, she doesn't ask. She's an angel. So, so what if I want to look after her when I'm gone? You've really annoyed me with that post. And I expect you'll still be here in ten years' time exhibiting some of the worst human traits.

Hi Peeps, What the hell does it matter? If you're leaving enough for your estate to qualify for inheritance tax your beneficiaries are still getting hods, and if you're clever enough you've bought them some sparkly and untraceable things well before your 7 year expiry date.

May I wish Everybody an Early Happy New Year.

ATB

Well, not quite. Anything left in an ISA is free from inheritance tax if left to a spouse or partner.

Well said, Blantyreboy. I'd love the SP to keep climbing the way it has been this past week. Yellowstuff, I remember when silver was thought of as what you bought when you couldn't afford gold, but I've always liked it. And peeps, what are you all doing up at this hour?

Signing off. Happy Boxing Day.

ATB

Merry Christmas One and All, and I wish you all a very Healthy 2026.

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Blimey, are your ears burning, Bamps?

I haven't read all the comments, but this is a forum and anyone can share what they're doing. This is too many people with too much time on their hands during the Xmas holidays. Go find some washing up to do, wrap some presents, and stop being mean to one of our best contributors. Remember that phrase, DYOR? 'Do Your Own Research'. MYOD 'Make Your Own Decisions'. (I just made that one up.) Nobody is an influencer unless you let them influence you. DYOR MYOD.

And Merry Christmas, Bamps, 🤣 🤣 🤣🤣 🤣 🤣