Any punters living in Birmingham Area interested in a Pie, Pint and jaw, one evening in a pub in Birmingham area.
Personally interested in small time investing(gambling), developing an appetite for CFDs. Also developing an interest in Charting or TA.

I use Sharescope, Moneyam, Barclays, Comdirect and IC

... well, that's the wonder of Woolworth's ain't it ....

...past tense now, I reckon. Middle of the Christmas trading season too.

Mind you, I have never before seen sales so far ahead of Christmas. I've even seen big name operators flogging half price Christmas trees!!!

Deflation is here and now.

"half price Christmas trees!!!".

Never mind Woolworth's give Ebay a look, I've just picked up a corner desk including two filing cabinets for 99p. I was going to wait until after Christmas when things would be cheaper but think they just wanted to clear...even asked me if I wanted a chair free, but the car was a bit full -):

55011. my wife put me up for sale in August.
No takers.

Try the other side of the street..................

.... given that no one's mentioned the Bartons Arms, then am I correct in assuming no one will be there tomorrow .... ?

I will be there as arranged.

... at the Bartons Arms ... or the New Street ramp...?

The New Street ramp 12.

.... noted .... can do a bit of shopping on the way down the ramp (Woolworths)

Woolworths?.. to dear for me -):

Chris, Re the missing email from me, I checked last night and It did get sent to you (via MAM).

I sent another one last night and asked for you to reply (no reply so think MAM is playing up).

Being nosey, Did you all meet up? If so who was there and were you all well behaved or was it as usual?

Fred.... just me and 'Stan'..... we had a pint (JHB) for you ... then quite a few more ..... hope to see you at the next meet ...

Stan ... haven't received any e-mail from you since the direct 'oddbins' one you sent. Have checked that my e-mail address on MAM is correct !?

My fault Chris, have emailed you to explain...correctly this time.

Chris,
have you received any emails from me in the last couple of days?

yeep.... just sent a reply ....
got your Codsall beerinevening link e-mail four times .....

One coming back. No sense to the way some of these emails work sometimes.

Happy New Year to All, and may we all keep out of trouble!

Hopefully be better than 2008. Note well - "hopefully".

Seeing all the "for sale" posters up in early December was like being in a time warp. Never seen so much pre-Christmas discounting. Many retail managers, when asked, were unable to respond to the question - "so what will you do come January?"

Looks like being a year or three of good old fashioned cost management. Wetherspoons are doing £1 a pint and cheap grub! If they can still turn a profit on that then fine and dandy.

A really hard recession will act like a purge on this once green and pleasant land. It will be uncomfortable, maybe unpleasant and could become ugly. What is left of the nation should emerge - one day - stronger for it. If not........

Happy New Year all.