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I get that, norm. But I still find him scary. His rage could one day just trip over the line. Like, say, ordering live bullets on peaceful protestors. Would the Republican Congress just shrug its collective should at that too?

It is scary, cj. No 47 is beginning to look - admittedly from my enormous distance - as almost certifiable. Even worse, this time we wouldn't have a Lyndon Johnson or a Gerald Ford to step into the breach.

My own dad was in the same real Home Guard unit as Jimmy Perry, who went on to write 'Dad's Army'. And my dad fathered someone who was as monumentally incompetent as to invest in UFO.

Well, if they can't sign any sort of deal by the end of Q2 (Yes, I did say Q2), then they might just as well have a fire sale and get rid of the assets and the company altogether. Because this is just ridiculous now. There's more signs of life in a mortuary.

Smiller, I am probably representative of a lot of people on here, and AIM more widely. In retirement, and at a time when banks and building societies would offer rates of interest on our savings that had several 0s in the figure after the initial 0.0, I thought that I would try to get a better return by investing in shares. And in so doing, very naively as it turned out, got sucked down beneath the main markets into AIM. Because, as you so rightly say, even though the "investment" was likely to be very much more risky than if I'd bought shares in Barclays, BAE or Tesco, I foolishly imagined that AIM would be regulated properly and that whilst we might be placing our money in the hands of people who may or may not succeed in their enterprises, at least they would be doing their utmost conscientiously and honestly.

Normbeef, it's the situation that we talked about only last week. These constant 3% cuts mean that when a double act of Simon Cowell and Jesus Christ emerge from a cloud of stage smoke to introduce "The Man from China", beaming at us and clutching a suitcase of used oncers, it will take the most almighty "bagging" to even get us back to where we were a few months ago.

I too have had enough of AIM, pebsi. It's OK, I guess, if you have the insight and technology and - above all - the 24/7 attention, to be a trader. But as an investment vehicle? When (if?) I can salvage anything from this share it's going straight into a building society savings account! :)

The one thing that is odd however, GTM, is is the point that several people have made. That the BOD does not buy shares itself. If this is truly "the best time ever" for the company, then they're taking their defence against accusations of "insider trading" to a bit of an extreme with this self-denying ordinance.

It's Crufts next week, TAD. You might get Best of Breed out of one of them :)

Tarquin. I'm looking at about one-tenth. Max (No pun intended). And at a 90% loss, I'm probably better off than a lot of others.

You're right about the percentages, smiller. It's truly sobering to think we need 100s of % increases to even get back to where we were in the long months while we languished waiting for Native Title Agreement. "Multi-bagging" barely cuts it.

"Yes as trustworthy as any of you here".

That's a very sweeping statement. "any of you". The implication is that the only verifiable fount of truth and integrity is yourself.

You and I had very much this same conversation about 3 weeks ago, Helx2. Yes, there are predisposed moaners and groaners - possibly professional "de-rampers" - on every board. But many of the rest of us have BEEN backing our horse. For years. We just wish that sooner or later the owners might actually enter it into a race.

There is always a time lapse on the alien website, DP. It always needs news to arrive from the colonies by clipper before it can be beautifully inscribed on parchment by the clerks on their stools.

Wents, keep your fingers crossed it's not myxomatosis.

To be fair to Max, it's not "unrelated". It highlights the context in which UFO is supposedly operating. My worry about Max's output always has been that he concentrates on the macro level, while at our own modest level we keep failing to achieve.

I would be surprised if there are many, apart from brave Max, who won't have given up hope if yet another promised deadline comes and goes at the end of Q1. It will be very difficult for the BOD to expect belief in its next promised deadline.

75p worth of shares traded already. In under two hours!

TAD, if true, a new CEO could give this the impetus it needs. Before Christmas someone had found a link to an advert for a Project Manager for H. Not a CEO on that occasion. What has become of this Project Manager recruitment? I haven't seen any sequel.

Well, we live in hope that the narrative of "Lots of big negotiations going on in the background. And these things take time" substantiates the truth. But it can't be denied that that "time" is rather excessive. Wars have been declared, fought and concluded in less time than our "negotiations" take.