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...of course...they, like everyone, else are waiting...patiently ...'to climb steep hills requires slow pace to start'

Anyone else finding they can't buy or sell any shares from 1 to 70m?

Peak..a very mature and sensible piece. We have to wait and let AZ and the team do their work. “A sensible person is one who understands the difference between right and wrong and the purpose behind truth and falsehood.”

― Chandrakant Kannake

This bb has deteriorated over the last few years. It's all been said and what is left is generally not worth reading any more as regards detractors, it's just not worth arguing with them, and as Terry Pratchett said in Soucery, “Never enter an ar$e-kicking contest with a porcupine.”

I would love to Peak, but can't this year. if we are all still here would look forward to meeting you and the others in 2024...who knows I may even drive down from Scotland in my Porsche!

Savvy...is that the River Dee between Wales and the Wirral? I grew up in West Kirby. Lovely part of the world.

Has anyone tried searching for his name in the 'members' section? no trace that i could find?

Chisler...I think you may have put a comment on ICON's page in error when it should be here?

Savvy..Any worthwhile achievement is inherently tough. It is taking considerable effort, energy, and sacrifice, over an extended time to make this happen, but otherwise, we could say, it’s not an achievement. And, we are trusting in someone else too of course.

Somebody said once that in the world of ‘grit’, encompasses your propensity to rise above the immediate situation to seek fresh, alternative perspectives, ideas, and insights as a way to improve your approach, and chances of success. You and others have certainly done this in exploring so many aspects of this company. But just surviving adversity seems a bit of a struggle. You have to use it, which you do, converting it into fuel, that’s why you bought back in again. That’s resilience.

The compelling but hard truth is that it’s impossible for things to go well all the time or even most of the time but that’s when your character shows led by your instinct that this company has significant legs, albeit they sometimes walk backwards.

Your relentless effort and energy that you have put into this is tenacity which will lead to a finish line. If most grand quests take longer and are more difficult than originally imagined, tenacity is what determines the difference between success and failure. How often do we hear, read, see, where people’s sheer guts and determination to slog on despite the odds leads to a success. Sticking with it, when others give up, will win the day.

Happy Birthday Bouchos.

Some would say brave Parish, no doubt some would say irresponsible and beyond risky, but I've worked since 16 joining Cammell Laird shipbuilders along with 20,000 men, so that was an experience. Worked with all sorts of offenders in mental health social work, including murderers, worked for a time with the MOD checking under my car every morning for bombs, worked in London for ten years . I would never risk anything important like house or family, even on Syme, but money is not the important thing, it's what it buys you. I have always been a self contained, in control sort of person. I knew exactly what I was doing in borrowing money for this and it's paid off. If it hadn't, I'm a big boy. Sure it's a risk backing this start up but you have to weigh everything up in life and it looked like a success to me. GLA

I must admit I originally borrowed money from my bank to buy some of these shares (now paid back!) and went back to work after retiring to do it, because I believed. Now I'm in profit of over 2.5k and I know it may well slump again but Confucius must have known about Syme 2500 years ago. He said "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." He wasn’t alluding to the sp of course, he meant meant the character of men. And my other hero, Steve Jobs said 'Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts'.

It would be interesting to see what Dr Calvin is thinking of the current malaise.

Google Finance GLA

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“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.” Well done all lth's..I dare to think we could be on our way now...

I have reached the age where I have to be honest with myself. Heads seem to be well and truly below the parapet as folk absorb what is a highly complex AR, and I don't understand it all. But it still seems to me to be a very disruptive concept being pursued by determined people. AZ has gilded the lily and we all bought in thinking it was going to explode any day, or at least within an acceptable time frame, but now we find that it is actually continually buffering up against reality, and the timescale is stretching out into a future we thought would be nearer. But, it was really always going to take time to get it right, and without that Italian entusiasmo most of us may not have put so much in so early on! Ok he has to take responsibility for that by at least being aware of it, and he has gone quiet of late as the realism of the CFO and others have tempered his essecci. Some may be thinking to part with their shares tomorrow and take the hit just to be free of the grinding relentlessness of the dropping sp, but to me the AR describes a behemoth. Steve Jobs said that at Apple, people were putting in 18-hour days. People who really wanted to get in a little over their heads and make a little dent in the universe. We’re here at the beginning of it, yes, still! but they are able to shape how it goes. He said that everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future, and I still think that's true and worth waiting for.

I take solace this weekend from the appointment of Alexandra Galligan, 20 years' experience in senior business development positions, as Partner and Chief Executive Officer at FCA-regulated investment advisory firm MUSST Investments LLP ("MUSST") for over a decade, she must have established lots of contacts and relationships with the right people. She would be fully aware of the imminent resignation of TF directors, and she will also be aware through her own DD of the potential for Syme. Oh, and it's a pitting machine Mister Green. GLA lth's.

Anyone else finding that value on HL is showing as "n/a" I presume this is because they don't show below a certain value however it is a bit disconcerting.

“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.” – Emily Dickinson

Peak..."The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory".