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with BPC many of us long term holders are both positive and negative, often at the same time.

it is a bit like having a disobedient dog. Every day you take it out for a walk on the beach planning to be an hour. Every day the dog has other ideas and makes for the dunes/sea/sun loungers/coffee stand just as it is time to get back on the leash and head for home.
Every day you give the dog the benefit of the doubt and take it back to the beach. One day it will come first time you call it to heel. One day.
BPC is much the same, one day we are confident it will be good. However, we often let the days where it has shown promise only to let us down influence how we feel.
The key to winning is not to make rash decisions in the spur of the moment.
Play the scenario out in your head several times, change the variables, play it again.

Or...

invest what you are OK to write off and let the game play out as it will and worry not about what could be or could have been. Grab a brew, pay the man for the lounger, sit back and let the dog play in the surf.

not an ideal situation if it comes to pass Shamima. Not because of the fund value and additional cash flow into the business but because it would be an indication that the appetite for drilling is not there from the locals.
They will be aware of the investment potential, if they still turn it down it is a strong signal to the government.
one for the Not In My Back Yard pile.

Like you I hope this is something we can avoid having to face into but it is worth noting that it could be the case and people should have an idea of how they will play the hand if that is where the cards fall.
For me it will be back to the waiting game and hope we don't get blocked by government forces.

I hope that 4 = a mars bar tomorrow

I am in glorious Edinburgh next week for a few days, (hatches, matches and despatches event - well similar church based thing with men in frocks pouring water on babies) if I remember I will have a look.
They were far better than the milk chocolate ones.

fingers crossed there will be enough left in the pot for a dark chocolate bounty in 12 months time.
maybe even a multi-pack.
do they still make a dark chocolate bounty?

maybe it was me?
I saw a fantastic opportunity to invest in a product called 'mars bar' at 26p it was a steal and I simply had to buy 1.
they are much smaller than I remember. Maybe that is why they are only 26p.

you know this?
or is it just an opinion?

close on the average SP.
Not bad on the top slice for the personal pot. But grandkids pot will be gone before then, happy to gamble with what I see as my shares, prefer to secure the cash for them.
Personal holding spookily close, but a few extra stashed away as grandkids inheritance when the shares were 'bottom drawered' in the days below 1p.

they can have a third of my shares for half a mil!

anyone else feeling a bit like an expectant father.
You know stuff is going on.
It is important and could be life changing.
You know the people that know what they are doing are not talking you through every step - because you don't need that level of detail, even if you had it there is nothing you could do with it to change events.

Sooner or later things will be very very different.

so...what are we having? Pink or Blue?

just remind me again how did TW call the previous placing?

I think it was suggested that BPC were not hitting the mark with II's and that even with the OO we were short of target.
I think what happened was that we hit the mark with the II's and the OO from PI's was the same as the value over the initial placing target.
I could be wrong.

here they are....

agreed, this is not a weekend for sitting on the sidelines.
An early RNS Monday regards the MF could very easily be followed with further news.

pure speculation here on my part...
farm in partner that paid for exclusivity sat in the wings waits for strongest indication yet that the people of the Bahamas are in favour of the project. Mutual fund news gives them that confidence and a formal agreement that was just awaiting an autograph is signed. RNS released.
SP impact ?

however, this is BPC. Could easily be no take up on the MF, no appetite for the project by Bahamian investors. Red flag to the wider world.

A good rise in the morning

£18.
I'll have half of what they had, and might want it watered down a little.

all of the old timers know this has 87p written all over it.
(Newbies - the 87p is wild speculation, there was a calculation once upon a time but the known facts have changed a great deal since then)

Linton: Anyone of the majors could be looking at this. BPC started looking for a farm in partner roughly around the same time as the birth of christ.

Just think, if Mary and Joseph had gone down the BPC route instead of the religious route how rich their descendants could be now. Not that the catholic church is short of a shilling.

saw the second RNS dot and nearly fell off the chair.
just price monitoring, back to G+T

Date: 30-Jan-20 09:27:04
Price: 3.10
Volume: 30 Buy*
Bid: 3.00
Ask: 3.10
Cost: 0.93

Specialist has finally gone 'all in' ??

round of applause for the team behind the name of our first well.
I don't think any of us that have been invested here for 10 years+ could have come up with anything more fitting.
I do hope however on a successful strike we anoint the rig - variation on the champagne launch - I think a large jar of Jam would be perfect.

I will be happy if we can hold the gains of today tomorrow.

Even if the general trend is positive there will always be some who dropped in here within the past few days seeing the SP rise are now sat on 10 - 20% return and will drop out. Many without ever seeing the BPC backstory or future possibilities.
We are moving more volume through the market now but it is still very low in terms of shares traded v shares in issue.
Think someone else commented that the time to get excited is when we start to see daily trades of 10%+ of shares in issue.

If tomorrow brings more of the same then just maybe someone has wind of something