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It wont give you instant gratification but Henry Boot looking good even at its current price imo.

You are a glutton for punishment but I wish you well. Big age gap. Schools here closed so some unexpected extra holiday fun on the cards. I know you got shot of carillion after taking a punt with it in the summer and you might have had rolls Royce so investments probably not going too badly for you. Building up free shares in debs lol but they are not worth very much right at the moment hoping for a takeover or for some of the struggling competitors to sink or shrink.

Yep was thinking the same thing. Share price might have been looking a bit toppy but surely not now in the light of that news. Blimey didn't clln want to takeover bby or merge with them not so long ago.

at Xmas when you look at House of Fraser and M & S. They haven't offered any cardholder discounts for well over a month. Decision was taken to close 10 stores a way back in April because those 10 were thought vulnerable to becoming unprofitable over the next few years. Bucher is the guy with internet knowledge and deb's did right to recruit him.

Yes it is but deb is more a pmo, kaz sort of share than a carillion at the moment and it is even making enough profits to pay a divi which is why mornings like this happen.

Just because I fell out with the top management over the shareholder discount vouchers in the summer doesn't mean they will not have sold a few turkey meals over the festive season though not to me personally as I went to Miller and Carter etc. Trading up date due on Burns's day. If you can get the Carrick to do a few haggis bon bons, I might be tempted back. Have a swatch at this https://www.concordregister.com/greene-king-plc-gnk-l-ao-signal-trending-upward/ lol

I got up early this morning because I knew there was an update scheduled. Can't remember where I acquired the advance info though.

perhaps for last week's big fall. No posts then on this forum and no posts today but maybe better no posts than sheer speculation. about defence spending and blah blah.

So now we know why the Christmas lights went out early in Buchanan Street and not talking twelfth night here and it was nothing to do with Mr. Bean and fuses. The people who were about were up Sauchiehall Street with Moses smoking a doubt and maybe in Marks or down Argyle Street in debs and marks. Inflated prices are not for Joe public just city types.

Mulder the list of major shareholders you purchased on Thursday is not up to date and doesn't mention spd or Goldman. You have kept a very sharp eye on the short positions here for some time so I reckon you must have known Standard Life and Old Mutual had small short positions open while also having holdings here which to my mind is no help to Debenhams at all. . Standard Life sold spd shares in August so I am not convinced how smart their managers are probably readers of oor Wullie Who said do food. Not for me thanks enough of that elsewhere and fine with the seasonal gift foods only. AGM will be a rubber stamping exercise unless big Mike puts in an appearance. Have a good weekend all.

Mulder I know all that but it gets a bit tiring sometimes for people to be posting strong buy recommendations all the way down to this price! Just random thoughts. Somebody posted a while back that they are not appealing to young people. They have umpteen concessions in store like Miss Selfridge and Office. I know one under twenty year old applied for a Debenhams credit card and was approved when in there Christmas shopping. He is awash with cash from a zero hours contract, no tax, no NI, no course fees in Scotland and a student loan with the promise of a job with big bucks in a few years.. Somebody says they are bhs but I couldn't by �50 face cream in bhs. They are not Hof F either, Mike knows that. The only time I have gone to H of F in years is to see the Christmas lights from the outside and to buy some discounted Jersey Pearls on line. Sir Hugh will be spinning in his grave! I did clear a John Lewis wedding gift list for a couple this year but they went there because others were paying and they wont spend any of their own cash over the next 50 years in there. And as for Standard Life's smartness. They bought a sizable stake here at funny money prices and have a puny wee short position to recoup some of their losses. Maybe if they were that smart they would have taken a stake when the price was on the floor which is what the real big boys have done but not reflected in your source which I presume was the FT tear sheet. But for me whenever I see them invested anywhere I will not really have much trust in them in case they start shorting the next week. Same goes for Old Mutual sadly. Reputations in shreds!

And I hope somebody from ICAS is reading this bb...

Meant to say in last post that they prefer large contributions less frequently than small contributions more regularly. Mulder I would imagine if you go to the AGM you would need to go incognito or face a harder time that Sergio lol for your incessant ramping.

How is it smart investor55 if your short position is substantially less than your holding position? Besides which I have a string of problems with Standard Life over pension contributions. I tried to make small regular contributions and was told by the third party that they prefer larger contributions more regularly and couldn't process the small payments which doesn't inspire me with much confidence in them plus one of their blunders cost me dearly. It's possible anyway that they have sold up here without declaring. A few big investors have form on that score. It's not smart. It's cheating and dishonest.

than blnd yesterday as the aforementioned looked a bit toppy. Excitement over after emergency doctor revving the engine, a nice little rise, puppy exercised so back to bed with a cuppa and hard gingerbread man.

And to the investment manager at Standard Life I say can you explain this and other things to me because if you can't , I need to find another pension provider or diy. I don't want eejits handling my pension thanks.

Standard Life and Old Mutual shorting their own shares then. How supportive is that!

but that was okay.

have a guid New Year.

sold out early though I am in a part of UK little affected by the recent poor weather but it looks to me as if the strategy was to avoid leftovers and heavy discounting so I have had to do without some fruits in alcohol gifts. The sparks card which seemed complex to begin with is now something I understand well. Big thank you to Braehead branch for releasing two Paddington bears to me when I explained the special significance to me. These were as rare as a teletubby in 1997 with all branches and on line sold as soon as stock was released. The advert this year had a special significance for me. I can't claim to be as big a fan as the late M and her husband S but A and I might well be the next generation of regulars. I just will not pay John Lewis prices for goods but equally I don't want cheap tat. LOL I had to buy the whisky marmalade at a distillery this year but see you rushed out Paddington marmalade on the shelves after my last post on LSE. A wait now to see how the Christmas trading has gone.