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Well I think the point is that only good retailers give you the option to buy separates and mix and match styles and sizes. Price to depend on amount of fabric used? Only ever seen price differentials on the same outfit in different children's sizes but if it was to happend with adults might be a more powerful incentive to stay trim than a sugar tax but would be very controversial but as Dierich pointed out I am in perfect shape for my age so not an issue for me and 58 year old man just collected Olympic gold for team GB in the showjumping. Is it possible you were mistaken for a pirate Gerry if you had a jolly roger raised.

Yes had a few school chums with Saturday jobs in bookies - certainly did them no harm at all in Maths classes and not a calculator in sight and still providing part-time job opportunities for students good luck. Talk of a fresh bid from a different quarter? but think today's hike in share price was all about the announcement that operating profit for 2016 is now expected to be at the top end of the previously guided £260-280m range because of, inter alia, a better Euro 2016 outturn.

There is a nice divi and special divi on the way but the buzz is that this is a bit toppy. Mind you they said kaz minerals was going bust lol and, if I had topped up there yesterday instead of taking some of these, I would have had enough for that £2,000 plus premium for the young driver. As it is, I am leaving with not even enough for an old banger and don't even think I have enough to cover the premium for the experienced drivers. However, there is maybe something canny about giving the cheapest quotes to the experienced and avoiding the risky newbies so I wish you all well for ex divi date early next month.

Not surprised. Car policy due for renewal this week. Premium £201 or thereabuts with spouse as named driver. Quotation for new driver to be added over £2,000 which proportionately for the year is just as high as when a provisional rather a full licence was held. Referred to sister companies to look for a black box or plug in. I know young boys tend to be less cautious than girls but this is a non-starter. Would rather put that £2,000 to good use for a course of advanced driving lessons with enough left over for a lads' week in Ibiza and long weekend in Amsterdam. Alternatively, could have got free driving lessons in the army and learned to drive heavy goods etc. categories but maybe a bit extreme when you are too young to vote.

pmo and ophir - like the gin. Never held xel but husband met a guy who worked for them at a seminar. Midway works for a small oil company might have been him if he is youngish. iae only aim oil I've ever held. Enjoying your holiday I hope. Going to do some jumping jacks in the pool. Got new bikini from debs today. Sell tops and bottoms separately which helps if your top is a different size to your bottom or you don't need a top lol and high-waisted option choice on the bottoms which you don't see any of these beach volley ball olympians wearing though very much back in fashion the daughter tells me. Back to the velodrome.

Cannot believe how quiet this bb is given all the news and breaking news around at the current time. Certainly wasn't like this a bpty lol maybe so many folks read that wrong that there is a reticence about commenting here. William Hill's bid for 888 was spurned last year I think but they don't see much merit in this merger. Seems odd to me. Anyhow still opening new branches I see and my brother told me if I am out on the High Street to nip into a bookie to use the loos. Definitely got an asset aldi and lidl don't have. On holiday still lance? Did briefly mention here on another bb a few weeks ago in case anybody thinks we are in off bb communications.

easier for petra to find that pdl shares according to my broker anyhow so gla

lol missed out the my before view. Another big one found as announced on 10th August. Not a coloured one mark you but white will do for me.

Seemingly a shortage of these available to buy on Friday and know that some things recorded as sells were buys which I know aint too signficant but those big discoveries they keep making are in view gla

That was a good call you made here recently. Arsenal finger on the pulse as always. Good luck

tiddi this would have a proportionate effect for all holders is how I would see it.

for reading spd entirely right. If you had bothered to read my posts on 10th July and 17th July, it was crystal clear that I said I would be a buyer again here and gave the reasons why. I also said that my strategy would be to trade a tranche and buy a tranche.

look good to me.

It's okay even in the isle of Skye or possibly one of the Uists this month, I managed to post that I was a buyer of this stock again and that my strategy was to hold a tranche and trade a tranche. Dave bought pre brexit and sold via a stop loss. That's very much a matter for him but I would probably have held a while as I have here on other occasions last year. Each to their own. Goodnight.

Prior to buying this month, I last sold spd on 30 November last year - sheer luck as I have been honest enough to admit on here If you want to trawl through my posts on the deb's bb you will see that I mentioned I had sold on there in the winter - there were few posters around this bb at the time to report my movements to. I hope you manage to catch site of these posts lol.

You are supposed to have me on filter so why are you analysing my posts. I bought a couple of tranches of spd earlier this month. I sold one at a profit and still hold one. I posted that I had bought back in. You must have missed it.

Statutory maternity leave has gone up from something like 18 weeks to a year and the pay element has been hiked since I was eligible. I can only thank the Lord I didn't buy back in here when some others were buying but I have been watching and the one rns that people new to the bb maybe need to be reminded of was the one on Hogmanay "Sports Direct International plc today announces that it has made a commitment that its directly employed UK employees and directly engaged casual workers will be paid above the National Minimum Wage from 1st January 2016. The cost in relation to these direct employees and casual workers and other related costs and knock on costs are likely to be circa £10m on an annualised basis." That said ABOVE btw.

Worked till about 20 days before giving birth at term to one of mine and stopped not much more before with the other. If I had given birth at work then it would have been my fault - not my former employers and other than that I've read enough tosh this week. GL

Good morning tidd83. I was actually the first person on this bb to moot the point that the company might be taken private but that was before the select committee hearing and it was for a very specific reason. We now have another retail magnate being under threat of being stripped of his knighthood in relation to a company he no longer owns so taking spd private is not going to make another select committee suddenly stop holding this company's "feet to the fire." The company will do all it can to be seen to have sorted out perceived or real issues (in my opinion) and, having done that, is not going to risk further criticism, yet a different select committee getting involved, bad pr and scrutiny over a takeover at a knock down price. Ashley lives in Britain and even Ireland would not be Kazakhstan. Our press etc. would crucify the company if it was taken private on the cheap and any shareback scheme instituted would be for a negligible number of shares and not enough for Mr. Ashley to gain full control. Most companies I know have made a hash of share buybacks e.g. rolls royce, premier oil etc. etc. buying at recent tops so at least spd cannot make that mistake but most investors would prefer a divi ATB

Also somebody not yet invested was asking what is legal. You need to refer to a lengthy document on line with the takeover code. Mike Ashley's not declared any share purchases for a while and would need an awful lot more than he has at present.