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So I've done ok with it.

I've always had a bit of a soft spot for SGC since the days of travelling to work on the East Midlands Trains some time ago. I always had good service from them. I'm staying in here long term.

That's putting it mildly Barchid. But I'm not gonna contaminate this board with it.

@Barchid

Hi mate. I've been neglecting my duties on this board myself of late. I've been a bit distracted on a Facebook page dedicated to my loathing of Piers Morgan. It's eaten a lot more of my time than I thought it would so I'm taking a bit of time away from it to spend time here.

Barchid. Maybe mate. We'll have to wait and see.

Camra have form for this kind of thing. So far with a 100% fail rate.

What, food but no ale?

That's a bit like masturbation without the payoff.

@ Peltata.

I've said this myself fairly recently. Idiots attending "protests" and those ramming beaches and total new infections - 0.

Pubs reopen and there were supposedly 3 and pubs shut down again???

I smell a rat.

My sharedealing account had a reduced dealing offer on, so I couldn't resist.

My sharedealing account had a reduced dealing offer on today so added a few cheeky ones. Couldn't resist.

Mass protests over the past few weeks and not 1 case of Covid infections.

Pubs open on Saturday and how many cases have come about?

Can anyone else smell BS?

I just wanted to ask holders here their opinions on him.

I get that he is not everyone's cup of tea but does anyone see him as a liability with his uncontrolled rants? There are quite a lot of both positive & negative points of view on him.

@ Mrahman20.

I'm not sure this is the last chance to get in, to be fair. I can see another chance to buy in/add to this and other shares in the sector in the not too distant.

The reason being, at the risk of being controversial, is because of those attending these "protests".

Not wanting to go into the rights or wrongs of them, as readers of my post will have their own position on this matter. I have mine, which I would prefer to keep to myself, in order to keep any debate on it civil.

The reason being, we are still part way through a pandemic, which is killing thousands of people across the globe on a daily basis, Governments are, in my view likely to come down quite heavily on new lockdown measures when so called second waves of the virus take hold, and take hold they will, if people persist in being in close proximity to others not knowing if they are or have been infected, risking not only their own health and well being, but also the health and wellbeing of elderly or vulnerable family members.

This is to say nothing of the knock on effect on the Country's economy, or the financial consequences connected directly to the businesses themselves.

No business can survive indefinitely for an unnecessarily extended time frame without income or with a heavily reduced income. This in turn puts livelihoods at risk, along with inevitable consequences.

Just my point of view of course.

I've done that myself a couple of times in the past. I'd sold out at a small profit & rd-bought back in on the retrace and copped for a few free shares.

I wouldn't do it in the current climate though to be fair because as you say it's just a little too risky for my liking.

I'm more happy to just sit tight on my humble holding for now.

@ fairdealer, perhaps so Marston's should be giving guidance for those landlords that are directly employed the company. That's a reasonable enough assesment, as Marston's are paying them directly out of their own finances, so what they say goes in that respect.

On the other hand, those self employed franchisees will not be getting paid by the company. Maybe they are getting something from the furlough scheme, I don't know. That said If there is a way for those self employed landlords to earn a bit of extra cash for themselves by doing this would surely be a good idea.

@fairdealer that was for. D'oh

@tiebreaker I'm guessing of course, but if there are self employed franchisee landlords that are simply tied to Marston's for stock, would that not entitle them to use their discretion and possibly conducting take away or "dial out" for delivery of beers, possibly food?

If that is the case I wonder why there are those that have not done so?

When "normality", using the term loosely returns.

With other Countries having varying rules about allowing foreign nationals into their Countries due to this virus.

An example of this, just from my own experience is that we usually go to Zakynthos in Greece for our holidays. However this may well be in doubt at the moment because the Greek authorities quite reasonably do not want those from "High risk"Countries coming in potentially putting Greek Nationals at risk.

We have friends that live in the Midlands that usually go over at the same time as ourselves, and it occurred to me to ask them if we cannot get over there this year if they'd be interested in going to one of the Inns over here somewhere if that turns out to be the case, and they seem bang up for it. Doubtless my discount card will see a bit of daylight too.

This does beg the question of course as to how many others will have had the same idea as a plan B.

That being the case, there has to be some benefit to us on the back of this.

Welcome back to blighty Barchid. Hope its cold enough for you mate.

You've not missed much while you've been away mate. Apart from this carlsberg. Thing

@ Eflammis

No idea mate. That's anyone's guess I think. Just have to wait and see what transpires.

Maybe Fairdealer. I understand that he is still in South Africa at the moment, so hopefully he'll be enjoying the sunshine, and perhaps a couple of cold ones.

A nice problem to have I suppose. Fair play to him if that is the case. There must be worse places to be "stranded" I guess.

I'd pick Kalamaki in Zakynthos for myself given the choice but I guess we all have our favourite places.