Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Great post, Hils.

Hmmm? I used to like to smack the odd bot! I see things have now moved on a fair bit.

Stuff all this. It's just an amusement. Via taking the dog for a walk and then going down the supermarket, it's now most probably St James's Place for me.

That is unless anyone knows anyone better?

Bot smacking is probably something best kept between you and Lady Proc in the bedroom, Doc.

Super post 53649 Hils, Id forgoten all the tricks in the trade so Ive printed that off many thanks.

At some time I think Ill start trading indicies again but at the moment got too much business going on outside the Stock Market.

If I do see you again before 25th....... merry christmas.

hilary is busy rock sliding in the alps .... seems to be serious shortage of snow in europe

meanwhile, my silly little stock market positions are generally doing pretty well (PFC definitely apart!), despite my clearly risible method or lack of it

Best Christmas for years here Cyners. And to think just a week ago we were all worrying we werent going to get an xmas rally.

Never know whats around the next corner with the stock market, I suppose its one of the things that makes it addictive.

Today is pretty weak so far but tons of data out of the US this afternoon could change that and dont forget tomorrows half day is the best or 2nd best trading day historicaly for the whole year.

Exec, I have two friends who work for St James's and some other friends with mega bucks invested with them. If I was going to invest money it would be with STJ.

sticks - as i'm out and about and not sat in the office - though working at the moment - playing indices (especially) can be a very risky game

off shortly to a splendidly named and quirky pub by the name of Tucker's Grave - look it up

DB

:-)

Alf, Don't forget you can get a game of Shove halfpenny and or a game of skittles if you fancy either.

not there you can't ..... look it up on line for it's a very unusual establishment

Look out the drunkard is back from the pub.

Talking of drunkards havent seen Hays for 2 Days, wonder if the rozzers are interviewing him???.

i stayed away from thatcher's cider which i thought looked somewhat deadly

Whos that bloke on your thread Cyners........strange.

???????
HA?
i really have no idea .... he just appeared from the blue a week or so ago

He maybe back in the arms of Miss Whiplash or gone Long.

Just realised its Christmas Eve tomorrow...

"cynic - 23 Dec 2014 14:55 - 53665 of 53671

not there you can't ..... look it up on line for it's a very unusual establishment"

http://www.thegoodpubguide.co.uk/pub/view/Tuckers-Grave-BA3-5XF

You can according to this.

More evidence... think you have had too many -):

http://whatpub.com/pubs/BAT/202/tucker-s-grave-faulkland

Happy Xmas to Cameron and Osborne.

"UK economic growth revised down


"The UK economy has grown more slowly in the past year than previously thought, official figures indicate.

Revised figures show gross domestic product (GDP) in the third quarter of this year was 2.6% higher than in the same period in 2013, down from an earlier estimate of 3%.

Also, the UK's current account deficit widened in the third quarter to £27bn.

That put the difference between the country's export and import of goods and services at a record 6% of GDP.

David Kern, chief economist at the British Chambers of Commerce, said: "The stark revision in annual growth confirms that the pace of recovery is slowing."

"The most concerning aspect of these figures is that the current deficit has risen to an unsustainably high level.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-30585678"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2884453/DAILY-MAIL-COMMENT-David-Miliband-faces-new-torture-questions.html

Secret papers, unearthed by the Mail, today reveal how David Miliband and the Labour government wanted to strike a squalid deal in 2007 to send Guantanamo Bay resident Shaker Aamer, a Londoner, to Saudi Arabia.

In public, the Foreign Office assured Mr Aamer’s British wife and four children that Mr Miliband was lobbying for him to be returned to the UK from the world’s most notorious prison camp.

In fact, it seems ministers and officials were duplicitously plotting with the US and Saudis to have him sent to the hard-line kingdom instead – where, as a Saudi-born terror suspect who had committed the criminal offence of marrying a foreign woman without permission, he would almost inevitably have been imprisoned.

According to Mr Aamer’s lawyers, the reason for the Foreign Office wanting him stuck in a Saudi jail, rather than a free man in the UK, was brutally simple: to prevent him ever talking openly about his own torture by the US and, crucially, his claims that a British agent witnessed the torture of another detainee.