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The omen was indeed prophetic but did we really have any doubts? :)

Gadbury, Sanboy...greetings! I believe there are one or two others here from our neck of the woods. By the way, as I walked past The Woolpack, two cyclists sat down with beers in plastic glasses and the place is selling all manner of stuff from fruit and veg to takeaway dinners. What people are doing to survive eh!

(It would be a very small statue greenmile)

Late this afternoon I went out with my walking stick, all country gentleman style, along the Slad valley here in Stroud. For those of you who only watch Love Island, The Slad Valley was featured in the film Cider with Rosie because it is so stunningly beautiful and very 'West Country'

Anyway, as I am walking a bloke calls out to me and asks me if I know of any archaeologists locally. Not the usual greeting you get so I asked him why, of course. He then invited me to have a look at a piece of rock he had dug out while preparing a new access to his land. "Is it the fossil of a dinosaur do you think?" he asked, as I looked straight down at the fossil of a Velociraptor's teeth and flattened skull. "Wow!" I said stupidly. "I have also found this." he said, showing me a belt buckle that Jon Pertwee would have been proud of. "Do you think it's copper?" he added.

I was suitably impressed and he has invited a journalist from the local rag to visit soon, so it might make national news yet. But don't you see? *Mushroom casts an open look to the skies* It's an OMEN! An omen I tell you. A great newsworthy discovery and copper to boot.

We are saved!

Sorry about that schlemiel but that's your punishment for posting up the worst poem I've ever read. :)

Good luck with that Tom. I had a blood test earlier this year and then, while 1000 miles away on the continent, was told that my kidney maybe wasn't working properly, so could I go back to see the quack immediately. Yeah right!! I'll jump on the next plane.

Time before that, they wanted me to go on statins. Time before that, they wanted poo. Time before that, prescribed high blood pressure pills 'just in case'.

Are these GP's on commission or what!?

Dodge..you are totally on form. I'm not even going to try to compete this evening :D

haha..SomewhatGullible. Very good. :)

Hi Tig, I'd be happy to join the gathering just as long as you don't say "Oh it's you", when I walk in! :)

That's ok Silverleader, I'm sure you were a great L.L..La...L. See! I can't even type it now!

Just kidding of course. The guy who worked on my behalf was a good old boy.

No apology needed wasred. I know exactly where you are coming from. I used to refer to my ex's solicitor as Kleinfeld (an unsavoury lawyer from 'Carlito's Way'). In fact, if anyone even mentions the word 'solicitor' in passing conversation (I shook a bit there just by typing it), it's like I am one of those people in a Hollywood film, raised in laboratories and brainwashed to become a homicidal maniac the moment the word is mentioned.

Other than that I'm perfectly alright of course.

Btw Dodge..if you are reading this..that mathematical formula you gave this morning...I got a figure of 43.

It's inevitable that trader types will gravitate towards this share. I don't begrudge them their business but instead hope, honestly and truthfully, that they follow a descent further than the 'yet-to-be-discovered' bottom of Havieron...and keep going.

Neat thought Welshfalcon. By coincidence, my sister is a manager of a charity shop . I must ask her what they do with valuables found in pockets. I suspect loose cash goes into the till but what of other prized possessions?

Haha...Golden1, I wouldn't argue with that I guess. Now I want the other half to catch up a bit...Out of the way 12p!!!

haha...I can just visualise the feverish rummaging through those old jackets strudel. Actually, I do something similar every year or so: I look in my crammed-in wardrobe and remove one third of all my clothes to give to the charity shop. (This is not entirely altruistic since most of them come from charity shops anyway and that's not because I am destitute, I just can't resist a bargain) Anyway, needless to say, every pocket gets careful examination. I don't want someone like me finding a tenner in one of my old pockets! Heaven forbid!

I hope, in due course, my trips to the charity shops will become less frequent of course' unless I become an eccentric millionaire.

Would endorse what hydrogen just said. I also have my AJBell sipp full with GGP shares only.

Ask them to get a load of 'Happy Meals' in ready for our arrival Tig!

Looking at the lovely holdings being mentioned today I am reminded of a true incident that went down in our business folklore and was oft repeated:

Our small business used to supply the heritage market and we were once invited to display our products at The Churches Show. It was all a very high-brow affair actually and when the event was over we were asked if we would like to go to the evening meal. We saw it as a chance to do a bit of 'networking like' so turned up at the door at the appointed hour. Honest truth this: As we arrived we joined a queue of people who were being announced as they walked in! Arch-deacon Gerald Whatsit, Lord and Lady Soandso, The Very Reverend Cyril Doobery". Now at this stage, wewere becoming a bit uncertain as we neared the front of the queue, after having watched these VIP entrants being announced. Eventually, the 'announcer', Verity' I think her name was, turned to us and with a suitable look, a cross between dismissal and disgust, said under her voice, "Oh it's you. Take a table in the corner would you."

Now this is how I envisage the arrivals at The Stag will be introduced. "John Moneybags, 8.5 million shares.....Cynthia Poundwise, 5.8 million shares...Maurice Mushr....oh it's you. Go and sit in the 'modest shares' corner would you?

I caught that post SoS but didn't realise it had been removed (along with you for two days)! Pretty intriguing stuff and it could be because your previous 'guesses' have proven very accurate that someone sat up and pushed a button.

Please keep posting within the permitted boundaries. You are one of several posters who have very sharp eyesight focused upon this industry and/or the shenanigans that surround corporate 'tensions' generally.

Mrs Mushroomkid is busy chewing a wasp at the moment but she said earlier, while doing an impression of 'Brains' from Thunderbirds, that' ahah provided the ahah assay readings are in keeping with the anticipated ahah levels and ahah both participants are agreed they will be making me ahah lots of ahah dollars, then I believe that ahah 50p per share would be ahah acceptable.

TMT, I'm sorry but you set yourself up for this: I would use your technique and use 5000 words when 10 would do until she walked off.

Just kidding..have a great weekend :)