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K3. Look what happens to WRES when MM talks. Chart it. The graph looks dreadful. Late, short on cash, unknown production or whether there is any recent production, silence on Twitter, 3 cash calls, relative silence for a long time ( no bad thing if it means MM stops talking), delays, delays, delays.
I am here (knew I should have sold the lot and gone into skin) for production. The risk is the cost of production. Hit the lower end, happy days especially if Tungsten prices rise. Nowhere near the lower end and tungsten price falls...well that is the risk. That is investing. We have great kit, we have boots on the ground that based on their CV's seem to know their stuff, should we secure the grant (cash in the bank), do a deal on our ridiculous interest rate loan, get some good gold numbers, have consistent production and get the full licence (not this fast track thing), some money back from the steel debacle, then anyone investing will do well. The SP is where it is because of the risks. They remain significant to me. I will not blow smoke up MMs arse, he hasn't earned it but he hasn't earned his quarter of a million either.

GIT...thinking no worries is not the case. The 3 cash calls are fact and MMs silence after said more than anything else. It is not what is said, but what isn't and ever so much the case in WRES. That money was to keep the lights on at Farm WRES. Someone got the numbers wrong, someone didnt plan for a delay. Someone was over confident. So here we are, waiting for all the kit to be buzzing and the possiblity of a gold update that may well be significant both for now and further exploration. Anything to do with gold should wait...no shiney balls please MM. Numbers, numbers numbers

Jaf. Welcome back. You should come back. The smoke blowing is dying down. I hope you made some dosh elsewhere. I ignore the figures banded around as they change like the wind, the fact there are several variants says enough really. Lots of wind hey? All finger in the air stuff until we are producing and selling and the numbers are added up. Come on Michael, wake wakey.

Ha ha ha...even capitalists get a day off it seems.

All off topic today (most days actually). Just set my first one up. Some say it is the gold cup of composting. Hmmmm. Could be a winner. Not sure on the adding bones bit, cant see them fermenting, so everything else it is. Apparently the juice is rocket fuel for plants. I have purchased two so that one can ferment whilst I fill the other. Another experiment.

Jeb. Me too. Very little fruit set this year. I wonder if it was too early this year and the buzzy bees weren't out. I didnt have time to double check and get the paint brush out to do it by hand. However, being light on fruit has meant that I can really thin it and shape it without the guilt of ' oh no, I have chopped some fruit off'. I really do feel like that at times.
Hbob....did she say the same ha ha ha ha.

Jeb. Me too. Very little fruit set this year. I wonder if it was too early this year and the buzzy bees weren't out. I didnt have time to double check and get the paint brush out to do it by hand. However, being light on fruit has meant that I can really thin it and shape it without the guilt of ' oh no, I have chopped some fruit off'. I really do feel like that at times.
Hbob....did she say the same ha ha ha ha.

Safety....yep. doesnt matter who you vote for you end up in f**$ing politicians in government.
In terms of so much more to come...I thought exactly the same on the eve of my marriage. Oh well :-)

Hbob....how did you get down south? Border security was clearly poor in 1978. ;-)

Hbob. Spot on, just the fun of trying. This stays in doors and is warm all year. I have a peach tree on my plot. Fruits every year (gets leaf curl too). If we have a long and warm summer the peaches are outstanding. They are blood red under an almost translucent skin. Beautiful and even more special as they are not guaranteed. Trouble is they going from being raw, to ripe, to on the floor in days. Makes a lovely cobbler mind and the chooks love them.

Any tips on growing lemons? Grown from a pip ( a rather expensive one). Will it even be fertile? No idea, but life is an experiment with the same ending. So, it is a now a foot tall. Any ideas for increasing the chances of success or should I give up as it will be a rather leafy dud? It is in a south facing room in standard peat compost (ohhh, controversial). I know I should water little and try to create localised humidity.

Reddington and Dreamy. Well said. So who are these teachers using food banks? Why are they using food banks? Never heard of this. One off single mum who retrained later in life? Circumstances? Context? Could one consider a paid lunch time duty which includes a free lunch? What I do know, is London is too expensive for teachers (most front line jobs actually). They commute in, or tend to cut their teeth and move out of the area. London Weighting has a lack of weight. Back in the day, post grad and first job, I drove a little beat up Astra. I had no mobile phone (didnt exist for the masses) and I cooked. I rarely went out for food. Beer, yes, food not so much. I got by with cheap clothing but professional. Could never compromise on shoes, even now I love a pair of Cheaneys or Greens. No foreign holidays every time I had a holiday. After a couple years, things change. Pay increases, promotions etc. There is a culture amongst many in their 20's that they should have it all now and can have it all now, and it should be on a plate. Those that buy a house and set themselves up in their 20's do so by making sacrifices and not having a £70 a month phone contract or a £250 a month PCP deal or use Just Eat 3 times a week...even to have a tub of ice cream delivered! Yes, this I have seen. I guess it is how most of us did it, and many still do. Graft and pain. I once read an interesting piece about women and working and how that lead to sky high house prices. Interesting theory. For another day. I am not going to accept that children are going hungry. If parents are financially in the poo poo then parents apply for FSM (free school meals). It is a quick and easy process. Said child will also attract PP (pupil premium) so extra funding for said school child. This is heavily monitored by Ofsted so all the pennies are accounted for and linked to the PP children. Some schools use for tutoring (intervention), trips, activities, shoes, school uniform, breakfast clubs etc. However, the welfare state is now considered by many as 'pay day'. It is a lifestyle that affords many holidays, cigarettes, alcohol, a car (despite free bus pass), and lots of Jeremy Kyle. Although Jeremy has now been removed from our screens, so I expect to see some societal changes. The term now used is 'worklessness'. It is prevalent in white British families. Increasingly the most disadvantaged in society and certainly the most affected my mass uncontrolled immigration. Tick tock. Tick tock.

Dreamy. I agree. However, what is poverty? How do we (society) define it? What is this poverty line? It appears to be an arbritary number, and in itself appears to create problems. My worry is that this arbritary number is government driven (GIT, read about Libertarians and reduced government). Is it mean, median or mode? I'd it regional, national? We certainly will not reduce poverty in the UK by exporting wealth.

Troajan. That is not the whole picture. Globally unequally has grown smaller, the gap between the richest and poorest nations has reduced. This is no bad thing. However, it appears to have come at a cost. The wealth gap (divide) in developed economies has widen with the rich getting rich and the poorer getting poorer. We can see this in our daily lives.
GIT. Please quote where I have told anyone what they can say or do. In actual fact did I not quote the other day that I believe if free speech (insert misappropriated Voltaire quote). Do you need someone to tell you what to do? Rather than come out with benign comments, vagaries and poor research why not try to articulate. Much like you conflating population reduction with nazism. That comment I chose to let go as it shows your ignorance, and says far more about you than it does about me. How do you find the subscription fees for Momentum? The fact your understanding of modern libertarinism comes from a quick Wiki search is brill. Why not try capitalist libertarianism or conservative libertarianism. Or the European brand of Crunchy Conservatism (cant be US due to gun legislation). I hope you have access to a better library. You are funny.

A ponzie scheme hey Alfie. Never? Next you'll be telling me that the money for state pensions doesnt exist and that such debt (sorry, liabilities) mean nearly every Western economy is absolutely bankrupt. Oh boy, the debt will be carried by the children. Never mind, we can spend more and lay the burden on the children, granchildren and great grandchildren. Even better, send money overseas. I love sending money to nations that have nuclear weapons. Brilliant. Boom boom.

Hbob. I do love this talk of the filthy rich. Let's call them the 1% as that is what the left have become obsessed with (despite a number of them being funders of the left...Soros baby). People seem to forget that the 1% is fluid, it is open to all. Up and down, it isn't static.I would go one step further and add that 10% own 90%. So Hbob you are viewing this from the Western luxury of the 10%. To the other 90% you are the problem. You are their 1%'ers. Feel free to give up any spare rooms you have to the needy and, as I have said before, give any money away. All your money. Selling all your WRES shares and redistributing it will help many. You could also not travel the globe, pass that money on to a soup kitchen and save on CO2 too. I can here those champagne corks popping from the socialists that love spending other peoples money, but not their own. 'Oh no, it is the 1% that must pay. No not me. Goodness me no. Someone else needs to pay for the buffet'. Alternatively let's just print money, that tends to work out well....oh, no, hang on a minute. Yeah, a race to the bottom for us all. Magic. They clearly grow some strong stuff up north.

STV - spot on. I would only add that not only has the day got further away it has also become a smaller payout (if your investment is static and you weren't in on the warrants give-away)

Looks like the Dutch have gone for centre left. Possibly the first surprise of the EU elections. Let's see what Sunday brings. Interesting times, excluding WRES as there is nowt happening here right now.

STV. Will do, always willing to give something a try. So no four horses. Thank goodness for that, I don't like horses. They are big and do their own thing, and when doing their own thing you have no influence at all...ouch.

K3. Yes, it was. Our bunch of self serving morons could learn much.