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.

Partridge - I've just had a quick look at Dialight - I see what you mean!

Skinny- I like to invest in what I believe to be quality businesses, many of which I have followed for a very long time. First researched Dialight a couple of years ago, as LED looked to have good prospects, but track record did not match up to my hopes and I gave it a miss. Think the management has since proved me wrong!

Yes I like your approach - as an aside, MKLW came up on my alerts earlier as the bid dropped below 288.

skinny

Your right http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vindaloo

Aldwickk - it was the answer to a quiz question at my local a couple of seasons ago - not that that made it right :-)

delete

YouTube Challenge - I Gave My Kids a Terrible Present

well the weather is fine over here and the food is very good
have been on the beach and going in to centre tonight .
reading the latest news over 74000 bank workers are going to lose there jobs by summer . the tory party will never be elected again
as a right wing tory and my family and friends will never vote for them again.
off to the bar now bye

I am surprised they let you in at migration.

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Don't keep out of trouble!

just looking in at news ,
eu to ask the uk for 43b euros to help mfi to save euro
the uk will give this money they will meet today .
back to bar for a coffee

mfi !! I hope not - something will be missing :-)

sorry imf it must be the drink and the heat . bye off to get a shower

skinny

Nice one , lol

TANKER

Do you mean a mower ?

This is getting like a sketch from "The Two Ronnie's "

A shame, but somehow inevitable - Motoring giant finally files for bankruptcy

QUOTE OF THE DAY

I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.

- Bernard Manning

..Egg on experts' faces as FTSE predictions are 1,000 points adrift

By Richard Evans | Telegraph – 3 hours ago
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Investors have been given a salutary reminder of the dangers of predicting the stock market by the failure of almost every expert to forecast how the FTSE 100 would end the year.

Many well known commentators made predictions this time last year about where the blue chip index would finish 2011. The typical prediction was 6500, whereas the index is currently trading at about 5400.

None of the 12 forecasts collated by one financial adviser was below 6000. Justin Urquhart Stewart of Seven Investment Management, for example, expected to the FTSE 100 to end the year at 6400, while Mark Dampier of Hargreaves Lansdown plumped for 6500. Henk Potts of Barclays Wealth was one of the more pessimistic forecasters with a prediction of 6100.

All were caught out by the "flash crash" that affected stock markets in August and by the failure of eurozone leaders to find a convincing solution to the debt crisis. The FTSE 100 has fallen below the 5000 level more than once this year as a result.

Brian Dennehy, the managing director of Dennehy Weller, the advisory firm that collated the figures, gave himself a pat on the back for his own prediction that the index would fall as low as 4800 during the year it did so in early August.

He said: "For a bit of fun we looked back to the end of last year, to see what industry experts predicted for the UK stock market in 2011. The majority of predictions were aligned but in the wrong place. The average was around 6500."

He added: "Our guide for 2012, as economic concerns continue to swirl, is 'what does cheap look like?'. Based on 10-year cyclically adjusted price to earnings ratios, cheap would be around 4000 on the FTSE 100 index.

"We believe there is a strong likelihood of footsie hitting 4000 at some point during 2012."

Below is a list of predictions made this time last year for FTSE 100 at the end of 2011.

• Justin Urquhart Stewart, Seven Investment Management: 6400

• Danny Cox, Hargreaves Lansdown: 6400

• Peter McGahan, Worldwide Financial Planning: 6500

• Melvyn Bell, Lowes Financial Management: 6500

• Andrew Swallow, Swallow Financial: 6100

• Martin Bamford, Informed Choice: 6700

• Nick Nelson, UBS: 6700

• Henk Potts, Barclays Wealth: 6100

• Mike Lenhoff, Brewin Dolphin: 6450

• Paul Kavanagh, Killik & Co: 6600

• Simon Brazier, Threadneedle: 6500

• Mark Dampier, Hargreaves Lansdown: 6500


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just read the papers so time for a few pints .
THE UK IS GOING TO GO IN TO DEEP RECESSION
and at least 1.7million to join the unemployed
down to the little boy osborne who was at the times for a little while he was as thick
a blank

four big uk companys on the brink of going bust