Happy Christmas Red (and family), TK (and  very significant other....) and old friends.

12bb

P.S. I was going to post on “another” diary”, but I fear it would have buried under bricks and concrete,

I've played guitar for xxxty years.  Still bloody rubbish though.  As my musical genius has clearly been hidden by choosing the wrong instrument all those years ago, I bought an anglo concertina a couple of weeks back.  It's going well.

Last week the next door neighbours put their house on the market...

I would suggest ' Touching The Void' by Joe Simpson.  The film was OK, but the book is ten times better.

If you like this, you might want to try Mil Millington's 'Things My Girlfriend And I Have Argued About' website.

http://mil-millington.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/things.html

It includes gems like arguing about the remote control, eating kitkats and hanging up washing.......

Damn, Bongo beat me to it!

Most of the moles have moved on to pastures new.

I think moles are thrill seekers (Why else would they torment a man with who has 20 bottles of propane and a box of matches?) When they realised that I wasn't going to try to kill them, they just got bored and left.

I know.  They have have moved to Leeds.  I have just been out to count the number of molehills I have to shift this afternoon.  I gave up counting when I reached three figures.

Not happy.

The geological record shows that the polarity of the Earth's magnetic field has changed many times, i.e. the north pole  becomes the south pole and vice versa.  The mechanism is, as far as I am aware, totally unknown and therefore unpredictable.  Presumably, at some point during the change, the magnetic field is zero and we will be totally exposed to the vast amount of electromagnetic radiation bombarding the Earth.

We're all doomed, dooooooomed!

Park Doo Ik

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Also worth looking at company CNE for a comparrison, they were 45p few years back and now £30+ ...Desire is alot bigger!!

Great buy, potential for huge gains, also worth taking a look at this forum for more information http://www.iii.co.uk/investment/detail?code=cotn:DES.L&display=discussion&it=le

good luck anyone investing!!

I have no opinion on Desire as an investment as I have done no research - it has been on my 'to do' list for ages, but I'm lazy.  However:

1. DES is bigger than CNE?  Really???  I thought it was the other way round, to the tune of £4 billion plus.  In oil company terms DES is a pimple on a gnat's backside, with all the potential upside and downside that goes with that.

2. Anyone who looks to iii or (God help us all) advfn for anything resembling a sensible or knowledgeable discussion is going to be sadly disappointed.  ADVFN is full of 12 year old rampers/derampers with IQ's less than their age.  The interesting discussions on oil E&P companies used to be on The Motley Fool, but the main protagonists have now moved to stockopedia.

How deep is the water where Desire intend to drill their 14 (14!! ) wells?  How much will that cost?  How are they going to finance it?  What seismic info are they working from?  What happens if the first two wells that they have farmed out fail?  I accept that there are probably large reserves in the area, but what if it will not flow in economic quantities?  Do they have any other prospects or is this a one shot deal?  Etc, etc, etc.  The case for investment is, being as charitable and as polite as I can be, not yet made in this thread. 

Do your own research, folks, as otherwise this is a punt not an investment.

Would anyone like to buy shares in this high horse of mine?  As always, my advice is worth exactly what you have paid for it.

Sorry!

I can give examples, but I can't say I feel very comfortable with the idea.  I'll leave a proper explanation to you proper mathematicians.  Infinity is a tricky little devil imo.  Over to you......

[infinite amount of energy]

So if you were in a spaceship travelling at the speed of light, and you switched your lights on, what would happen?

You can't travel at the speed of light in a spaceship.

Aww! Why not?

Anything with a mass would need an infinite amount of energy to accelerate to the speed of light.  This would also mean that the object would have to have infinite mass as well.

How big is infinite?

It's, er, infinitely big.  Infinity is a concept not a number.  Some infinities are bigger than others.

I never had any interest in the dogs until I saw this thread.  Since then I've read every post, followed Rodders' and Cassie's ups and downs and really hoped you had a top class dog on your hands.   RIP Rodders.

Is anyone arriving early, so that I could hand over the chess equipment on Friday morning/early afternoon?

No-one willing to take delivery of the chess equipment this afternoon?

I'm out.  May be around at some point over the weekend to say hello.

Is anyone arriving early, so that I could hand over the chess equipment on Friday morning/early afternoon?

I won't be at the chess club next week, so tonight I've collected 3 sets of kit (board, pieces and clock) for use at the bash.  On the basis of the response so far, I think that will be enough but more is available if necessary. 

I will have to bung the chess club something for the use of the kit, so if those who play could make a small voluntary donation it would be appreciated.

He's away.  Awesome stuff.