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Unlike many other inconsiderate companies, they rarely issue RNSs at some ungodly hour like 7.00am. Which means that those of us used to a more civilised lifestyle can still stay in bed until 9.30, when the butler brings the freshly-ironed copy of the London Times and serves one's breakfast of kedgeree.

I see what you did there, Baz. Changing £ to 3. It's something that slightly irritates me about this site. Unlike, say, Facebook, there's no way you can retrieve and edit your post to correct a glaring spelling or grammatical mistake.

someone has sold 19 shares this morning, in a desperate bid to salvage £4.77 out of this fiasco.

Is this the beginning of the end for SGZ? Is the whole rotten edifice on the verge of crumbling? Tell us TLC!

I want my £4.77 back too!

+8% is not to be sniffed at for half-a-day's trading.

Let's just hope that - for once - an sp increase can be sustained. So many false dawns in the past. For a sustained sp rise it cannot hurt to have a sustained good news flow. So our other hope must be that something comes through before slippage occurs yet again. The tragedy of SGZ is that, as far as I can remember at least, there has never actually been any BAD news. Unlike many other AIM miners and oilies who've announced to their demoralised shareholders a sudden abandonment of exploration. In SGZ's case it's unfortunate the external circumstances have too often put obstacles in the way of progress that the company has been ready, willing and able to make.

Ah, so you are a ghoul as well, Mr Rocket.

Will you need to be exorcised? If so, we have just the man. An unfrocked clergyman has arrived in the village by means of the canal. In view of his disgrace within the Church, he has suppressed the details of his full name and wishes to be known simply as Canon B.

Happy Birthday, R. Is it today? Or did we miss yesterday?

Have you received a telegram from Her Majesty, Queen Victoria? No other announcement, by the look of it. Though a passing barge has delivered a 'Jumbo Pack of Embroidery Thread' to Mr Patel. Unfortunately it didn't say on the box what colour is contained therein.

No prob, Samson. They are entirely a bit of fun. Harmless when there is absolutely no news or useful information to discuss (unfortunately, too much of the time) And also intended to lighten things up when other folk get a bit steamed up with each other. As I said before, when there IS real news or useful information I put the little stories back in the cupboard, so as not to interfere with the serious business.

May I apologise to Samson if I have offended him with "these tales from the manor", for of course it is I who am the author of same.

They started as a bit of fun quite some time ago, probably the best part of two years, and gained a momentum all their own, since they seem to have been well received. The spirit of them has been to weave a gentle parody of the fortunes of SGZ, a send up of the some of the characters who populate this board, and total nonsense.

The "actual value" - I thought - was to have a little light-heartedness on this board, to alleviate the negativity and infighting which sometimes descends, and to keep spirits at times when there is nothing "of value" to discuss. When momentous strides occur in the progress of SGZ, the "tales from the manor" go into the background.

But momentous strides to not occur on a daily basis. However, if Samson and others feel that only "new information" is the purpose of this board, then I shall cease writing the "tales from the manor". I apologise once again to all those of you who feel that only serious information should be posted here.

My word! Such scenes last night at the Dog & Duck. And it seems that the unpleasantness has even spilled over into this morning.

The Hon. Basil (Mark 2) has reappeared in the village. And his parentage has once again been the cause of unalloyed vitriol from the Hon. Basil (Mark 1). What are the newcomer's credentials, we ask? After all, there has always been some mystery surrounding Sir Jasper's dismissal of Silas, Ned's predecessor as stable lad, at the same time as Lady Hermione was sent to the private asylum.

Don't be so bloomin' negative, Eck. There's always "in the second half of 2028" still to be announced.

On this occasion Baz is at least factually correct. At one time 2017 was mentioned as a possibility for production starting.

As I said last week, I wish SGZ wouldn't do this. Throwing dates into the public arena when there are still so many steps to take in the meantime. It keeps leaving big hostages to fortune. Not only can this then lead to frustration even amongst the faithful, but it cannot surely create a good impression of competence to the casual observer. It is, after all, would-be investors, rather than existing investors, who need to be convinced.

I will say, Baz, that they've now set themselves a challenging target date.

Production to start in the midst of a Scottish winter?

I can see "Spring 2020" coming on.

Slightly off-topic, which I hope you'll all forgive while things are so quiet on here.

We had a short discussion on here about Barclays Smart Investor a couple of months ago. My own experience of them at the moment is that the range of incompetence on their part is breathtaking.

Last time I was telling people that they were taking money from my investment account to pay my fees, despite my having a letter from them months previously confirming that a direct debit was in place on my Bank of Scotland current account. Apparently it wasn't! So in August I completed another direct debit form, which I know they received.

On Friday I got another letter from them, declaring that cash would be taken from my investment account for the payment of fees! So I phoned them. Oh yes, they said, a direct debit is in place. But it hasn't been set up for the payment of fees!! Dear God!!

This is nothing. Ten months on from the last SGZ rights issue, I STILL haven't had the Options associated with that exercise credited to my investment and ISA accounts. I have given up on phoning their Corporate Actions Team, who just keep on telling me that they are "looking into it". Today I have written to Alistair Thaw, the Director of Smart Investor, pointing out in no uncertain terms that these Options are mine by right, not at the whim of Smart Investor, and giving him warning that, without this being resolved in the next two months, I shall be taking Barclays to the regulators.

Last time we had this discussion, someone - forgive me, I can't remember which of you it was - recommended that I should take my business to Hargreaves Lansdown. While I am awaiting the crediting of my Options, I am not in a position to do this, but as soon as they have been I shall be doing so.

Barclays have become just un - bloody - believable!

Ha, ha, Eck. SGZ is operating out of time. They used to make films at Ealing in the 1950s that weren't half so funny as the SGZ saga.

Thanks, guys, for your good wishes on my 70th.

And a great sunny day for it too. Much celebration at this end of the canal. It must have taken Miss Keeper weeks and weeks to embroider the 40 foot 'Happy Birthday' banner that graces the entrance gates to the Hall. The 140 candles on my cake must, surely, be due to some unexpected glitch in Mr Patel's purchasing software. And, thanks to young Marty's gift of seeing Back to the Future, it's been possible for Miss Wemyss to hammer out 'Disco Hits of the 70s' on the Methodist Chapel harmonium.

Happy Day.

Mr Patel has indeed found a new embroidery needle. But the announcement relating to "various related third parties" has had to go to the back of the queue while other announcements are embroidered about the repainting of Mr Patel's shelves and a change of watchman at the factory which produces the needles.

WOW !!! PIZZAZZ !!!! FIREWORKS !!!! STREAMERS !!!!

Yes, Blakeney, as TLC says, I'm fortunate to have a 50p average. Considering as how I bought some of these at the equivalent these days of £6. From what I infer from occasional posts on here, some people are still lumbered up in the £s.

Hope this comes good for you some day, my friend.

Thanks, TLC, and happy birthday to you for yours when it comes. Once I'm past 70 I really MUST join the get-togethers at Tyndrum sometime, IF I can propel my Zimmer all that way!

Hi Blakeney, yes I need a 100% to break even. And 50p shouldn't really have seemed a high average at one time. I dread to think what it would have been if I hadn't pumped in a fair sum (for me) at the last RI. But when you've been here since 2011, what's another 7 or 8 years between friends? LOL