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Hi TLC, I'm just wondering if the "agreements in place" and the "Decision Notice issued" will be a one-stage process or two? Presumably, the Decision Notice would be automatic if the agreements are made. But if the agreements themselves warrant an RNS and the Notice another, then it might go a little beyond this week to get the second.

Baz, as Rocky knows, it will be my 70th birthday on Friday. Failing an announcement from SGZ as a birthday present, I had hoped to send myself a packet of incontinence pants. But sadly I cannot remember where I live.

The whole village is in turmoil. Already, nerves have been strained by the snapping of my needle and the delay in embroidering the announcement about "various related third parties".

Now there is renewed consternation about the threat to the livelihood of my own dear father, Mr Keeper, and the whole Tyndrum Canal, before it is even completed, by these "new fangled railways", exhibitions of which the mysterious Mr Rocket has once again been spreading happy talk down the Dog & Duck. Rumours have started that the mysterious Mr Rocket could, in fact, be none other than Prince Albert himself, incognito, for it is known that His Royal Highness favours new-fangled things and exhibitions. Though what His Royal Highness is doing down the Dog & Duck we cannot imagine!

But worse still has come from the mouth of Mr Patel's new apprentice, Marty, he who can see 'Back to the Future'. Just yesterday (aka tomorrow) he was telling folk in the shop of the coming of "horseless carriages". "Horseless carriages"! Can this have anything to do with the flamboyant foreign nobleman, Count de l' Orean, and his grand scheme for Tyndrum, for which he is seeking the support of Lord Palmerston himself?

"Various related third parties", "railways", "horseless carriages", Oh, this is all too, too much for our nerves! Not only have Miss Wemyss and my own dear mother, Mrs Keeper, succumbed to the vapours, but now so too has poor Champion the Wonder Horse. Even the normally unflappable Mr Patel is driven to distraction as he seeks to obtain a new embroidery needle and a bottle of 'Equine Vapour Remedy'.

Such threats to the certainties of life in our lovely South Worcestershire village. We must away this morn to the Methodist Chapel for a reassuring sermon from the Reverend Grimm.

Mr Rocket, on behalf of the Board of the Tyndrum Canal, Sir Jasper has issued the following: "As you are aware, it was hoped that an announcement of the conclusion of negotiations with "various related third parties" would be embroidered in the very near future. However, due to the unforeseen snapping of Miss Keeper's embroidery needle and the lack of a suitable replacement in Mr Patel's shop, a delay will necessarily ensue. This is an unfortunate occurrence, but the Board is nonetheless hopeful that an announcement can still be embroidered by the end of 1855 and that construction of the Tyndrum Canal will be completed sometime this century".

Mr Rocket, I am sworn to secrecy, but suffice it to say that Sir Jasper and the other directors of the Tyndrum Canal have commissioned me to begin embroidering an announcement about the conclusion of negotiations with "various related third parties". It is so secret that I was instructed to buy both blue and red threads from Mr Patel so that Mr Market (whoever HE is) would gain no intimation as to whether the announcement will be Good or Bad.

I agree, TLC. This will surely send interest in SGZ soaring around the globe, if not the entire cosmos.

Oh, such ranting! Miss Wemyss and I are quite overcome. Ned has been despatched hotfoot to the shop to obtain a bottle of 'Dr MacTavish's Patent Remedy for the Vapours'.

And yet more Back to the Future phenomena, it would appear. The Hon. Basil (Mark1) is anticipating, by half-a-century, at least, the advent of the Daily EXPRESS and its need to SHRIEK in CAPITAL letters.

Very strange goings on. It seems that many of the denizens have been struck dumb. There have been no rantings from the Hon. Basil (Mark 1) for over a week, and neither has anything more been heard from the mysterious Mr Rocket.

Meanwhile, at the shop, Mr Patel has engaged a young apprentice lad named Marty, who, it transpires, has amazing psychic powers. He claims to be able to see Back to the Future. Only yesterday he was telling Mr Patel and Miss Wemyss, who had gone to the shop for tarragon powder and a new bonnet, that he could predict the coming to fruition, at last, of the Tyndrum Canal and the riches that would ensue to its investors!

Surely not!

And can this Back to the Future phenomenon be connected in any way to the arrival at the Hall of a flamboyant foreign nobleman, one Count de l' Orean? Word from the servants is that activity at the Hall has been feverish. Not only is Sir Jasper still engaged in negotiations with "various related third parties", but now, according to the servants, this Count de l' Orean is regaling him with a scheme for Tyndrum which will employ thousands of folk. The Count is hoping that, through Sir Jasper's friendship with the great Lord Palmerston himself, he can obtain the backing of the Government for his scheme.

We await news.

Yes, as I said to Troajan yesterday, they cannot find any Options to credit to my account as part of the SGZ RI that I participated in last year. Nearly 12 months ago!

I've phoned them and phoned them about this. "Read the RNS! It's there in black and white!"

Absolutely unbelievable!

"End of the tunnel", Samson?

What tunnel?

I've been plodding along this route since 2011 and I can't see any tunnel on the horizon yet!

If any of you do survive, not only to discover this tunnel, but then actually reach the end of it, I do hope you'll all hold a wake for those of us who have passed.

BTW, this is all written in LOL mode.

Yes, baz, what happened to those posts of early this morning, yours and mine? When I came back at lunchtime they had all disappeared.

Thanks, Troajan, I'll do this after I get back from holiday. I've lost all confidence in Barclays. Wouldn't surprise me if, when SGZ soars to £5 a share and I think I'll cash in, they'll tell me they can't find any record of my holding!!

Hi Troajan, I too have had log-in problems. And I'm still not sure if the SGZ Options to which I have been entitled for the thick end of a year now have even yet been shown on my account, they hadn't the last time I checked, despite several phone calls to Barclays.

I think I'd like to transfer to another dealing service. But I presume you can't just switch your holdings across from one to another, like you can switch direct debits when moving banks. I suppose you have to sell your entire holdings and then buy them all back again? If so, it would be just my luck that the sp would rocket to the stars mid-way through this process, LOL.

Bit off-topic, but has anyone else had problems with Barclays, since they set up this new 'Smart Investor' platform?

My accounts (Investment and ISA) are in a state of all most permanent incomprehensibility to me. For example, I've just spent almost half-an-hour paying off an outstanding fees balance of £14.01 (where'd THAT amount derive from?... don't ask... I did, but gave up trying to understand the answer), when for years I've had a direct debit which I assumed was still paying such things but which seems to have somehow imploded and is no longer on the account!

We have returned from our summer sojourn in Torremolinos, all of us - except Mr Patel - showing evidence of this unusual exposure to the sun. Miss Wemyss has brought home a pair of highly-coloured china donkeys to add to her prized collection of Royal Worcester. And the new "Lady" Juanita has been installed in the Hall, although we have yet to hear of the reaction of the Hon. Basil (Mark 1) to the arrival of his new "mama".

But consternation in the village! For some time passing bargees have told us of rumours concerning some new-fangled thing called a "railway". And now, a mysterious stranger by name of Mr Rocket has spread word in the Dog & Duck that he will be attending a show of models of this new invention. Worry indeed! What could happen to the livelihood of my own dear father, Mr Keeper? And will this mean that the unfinished Tyndrum canal will suffer another setback, just as Sir Jasper was hoping to conclude agreements with various related third parties?

Have no fear that the denizens of South Worcestershire will be making a reappearance very soon, as they always do in periods of quietude in the fortunes of Scotgold. It is that they have all taken advantage, these summer months, of the new Wonder of the Age... the Droitwich to Torremolinos Canal.

Yes, ALL. Even Miss Wemyss and the Reverend and Mrs Grimm have been indulging themselves non-stop in a summer of Sand, Sea and Sampler Embroidery.

And in the absence of Lady Hermione in the private asylum, Sir Jasper would seem to have found some consolation in the arms of a young woman by name of Juanita.

So great has been the interest in this new tourism venture that word has reached us from the gloom of Southern Scotland that plans have been cast in the brain of a would-be entrepreneur that the whole scheme, Droitwich included, should be taken over by the Spanish Government.

More soon.

Hi TLC and glen. Sorry if I've upset you. I'm not questioning the need to satisfy conditions with third parties. Just the disappointment that - as Rockhead agreed - the company in excitement raises expectations that are then quashed. I too have been here for the best part of a decade. Please don't lump me in with the "bad guys". It's just that I am now in a state of resignation that "a couple of months" will fail to be achieved, just like so many hopes in the past. Best regards to both of you, as I say I'm really on your side.

Hi R,

Indeed, it is helpful, thank you. I do well remember at the time of the permission from the NP back in February the reference to provisos that needed to be signed off. I think it hasn't helped that the immediate response from the company was a rather over-ambitious one. I cannot remember the exact wording from the RNS at the time (nor can I be arsed to go back and find it!), but I seem to recall that the declaration was something along the lines that we could expect these conditions to be satisfied within a couple of months. So, here we are, 7 months on, and, as you say, the delays are somewhat frustrating, especially since we've all, company, big shareholders and small shareholders alike, been on the receiving end of frustration and delay seemingly for ever.

If RG is right this time, and we can get the signing-off at the end of September, who knows we may get it to coincide with my 70th birthday on the 28th of that month. Since my mother lived to be 87 and my father till 93, with these genes I may yet live long enough to break even on this investment, LOL

Regards, y

I think, glen, that this is another case of what several people have said about SGZ's communication skills not being quite on a par with its undoubted high level of skill in other areas.

Rather than just announcing "various related third parties", it might have been better to spell out who these actually are. That would have eliminated any niggling worries about "What the heck's happening now?" Because it's not the same as commercial confidentiality, a different matter altogether. Since these "third parties" are engaged in part of the planning process, it's in the public domain anyway.

So, who are these "various related third parties"?

I thought the planning process was that third parties made their submissions to the NP, who were the decision-making body. I didn't think that third parties got a second bite of the cherry and that the company had to go back to dealing with their objections individually.