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I came on for my usual mid-morning catch-up on your posts. I think I'll go back to my book, 'It's a Laugh a Minute: Memoirs of Working with the Samaritans'.

I think, 5x5 and cj, that many of us would split the difference - which is 1.55 - and take that after the battering we've had for three-and-a-half years now. On the other hand, if it can claw to 1.55, then it could possibly go further.

Jam Tomorrow is the motto of AIM. I wonder if anybody has produced statistics of the percentage of AIM speculations that mature into successful, productive companies. It would be interesting to see.

Goodness, tacet, you missed out rampaging Mongol hordes, the Black Death and the Spanish Inquisition.

Yes, blue! Every share is worth 0.005 of a penny more! Pop the champagne corks! Take early retirement!

Leweyman, a heartwarming thing about the response to your announcement has been the evidence of a fundamental humanity and decency amongst people on this board, who have sent you their sincere and profound good wishes, as do I.

Well, if we are going to continue this analogy, it may be that the "various proposals" like JVs turn out to be like the RMS Carpathia. Too far away and arrived two hours too late.

I've said it before, I am a late riser. So, when I do eventually come on here and see the red flag for an RNS, before I scroll down further I'll say to myself, "Well, this'll be Red then". UFO is nothing if not consistent.

Just to follow on from my earlier post, I thought I'd just look to see what the other party to the NTA was saying (not that UFO would have dared to issue a blatant lie in the RNS), and KNAC uses the same definitive language - "consented" and "decisions":

https://www.karlka.com.au/nyiyaparli-week-2023-roundup/?fbclid=IwAR2bTQJCVi3wSgCgblsW2SFMjERGq8-wqUk-ymtXrbMrFt8D2jUSk8t3Acg

I'm with Max on this. Surely the key words in the RNS of 14th December are "signed" and "finalised". So how can it possibly go back to "pending"?

I'll be reasonably calm about recruitment of the new CEO and team until about mid-April. For the reason I stated last week. That anyone worth their salt could well be impossible to recruit within a three-month notice period. But beyond April I think we could understandably scratch our heads as to what is holding things up.

In a strange sort of way - a bit like whipping your bare flesh incessantly with barbed wire - maybe I would like to see UFO fold. Releasing us from the misery of seeing continuous good news making us poorer and poorer.

'Woes', a word beloved by headline writers. Short, and conjuring impending doom. Out of the same editing box as 'braced'.

Well, on the subject of "real news", take comfort in the fact that no-one (so far) has blamed our current travails on "Putin's illegal war in Ukraine". Everything else, including granny's bunions, is.

Yes, Unclejim, you are correct. Someone did post that. I believe it was cj, or possibly wents. They would not appear to be here as yet this morning, or they could give you chapter and verse.

Please don't include me amongst the "trolls", Max. I'm just making the point that we don't all have bottomless pits of money to keep 'topping up' and 'averaging down'. Some folk are in the happy position of being able to do so, many of us aren't. I have averaged down and averaged down with this and, short of raiding the dog's biscuit money, I'm just about at the end of being able to do so. I, fortunately, was not 'spiked' in 2020. But ,even so, at this rate it is going to take years for me to break even.

Irrespective of which side of the fence you sit - pessimist or optimist - I've always found 'topping up' to be a strange phenomenon, which breeds its own raison d'etre. It's actually not quite so bad on here, but in other boards I've been on, 'topping up' seems to be the whole purpose in life for some individuals. Every decrease in sp becomes another 'great buying opportunity'. I often scratch my head at some of these compulsive 'toppers up' and feel like asking 'Wouldn't you actually like to make some money NOW?'

My reflection on this is that the pronouncement about a new team being in place within a week (and over a public holiday at that!) was clumsy in the extreme. But that the subsequent delay does not necessarily imply doom. Surely, anyone really worth their salt would need to give three - if not six - months' notice to their present employers. Not someone who's just been down the Job Centre and comes home exclaiming "They want me to start on Monday". Having said that, once notice HAS been given, then things should be in the public domain, I'd have thought, so I'd hope that the recruitment process, and its successful announcement, wouldn't be too much further delayed.

If your supposition is correct, though, wents, that would mean that someone within the WA government is bent. How else would traders have foreknowledge that the mining licence has been rejected? Or even "on hold". I don't buy it.

In a word, pebsi, No.