Hargreaves Lansdowne, AJ Bell Youinvest, iWeb, Charles Stanley… to name but a few.
HL is really user friendly and you can buy funds, trusts, and shares from the uk and around the world.
There are cheaper sites but the clarity and ease of use of the app, and the sheer range of investments available swings it for me.

Very true! The waterboard can lay a pipe across the road and resurface the trench, and it’s still there 3 years later. The blokes whose job is actually to repair the roads can’t make it last 3 months…

And yet I remember my mum, whenever there were roadworks on the drive down to devon in the summer, which means on EVERY drive down to devon, telling us to open the windows and breathe deep as the smell of tar was good for our lungs….

fixmystreet.com is my go to rant at the council about potholes. It seems to work. The council usually responds within the week and fixes the potholes within a fortnight!

They’re brilliant little cars! I had a 55 plate, so the previous model, and it would go places the Outback wouldn’t due to a shorter wheelbase and overhangs. My back yard is riddled with BOATS, and it surprised a few Landy drivers, looking all butch with their shovels and winches…

Well, you’re the Executor. It’s up to You, no-one else- when you distribute the funds. Have you explained to the beneficiaries they will get more if they wait a while?

Is there a rush to sell? It ain’t a great time at the moment as generally share prices are low.
Are HL refusing to sell due to Covid or because you don’t have an account? It’s easy enough to open one. I sold some LandSec shares a couple of years ago through HL. Whether they still will sell them for you I don’t know, but it cost nowt!
Other online brokers – Charles Stanley, AJ Bell to name just two – may be more amenable, but a google of Stockbrokers will present you with dozens of options.

The Espada is beautiful! For a 4 seater GT it is exceptionally so. Making a 4 seater beautiful is relatively tricky. Even today designers struggle with it. Just about everything else people are comparing it with are 2 seater sports cars, which are bloody easy to make purposeful, pretty, fast looking, even beautiful…

Another shout for Minirigs! Love mine!

I inherited my dear old Mums Hifi, a Marantz CD like Zeus’s which is now rarely used, with an Audio Incinerations Series 300 valve amp feeding Snell type K speakers. These days I mainly play through an iFi bluetooth reciever, and I love it!

Something similar happened to me 12-15years ago. I had Angina, was stented, felt great, and then a few months later the cycle repeated. Twice…
I eventually had a double bypass and I’ve been right as rain for the last ten years. It’s a pain in the arse but be patient; you’ll get there!

“Shell are 17.5 gbp so an 8% yield, they haven’t cut their divi since the war.”
But they really should! And start investing in tomorrow’s tech….

I phoned up my GP today to request a prescription repeat. I was told to come in as usual and fill out the form.
“But wouldn’t it be better to send it direct to the chemist?”
“Oh no, we’re perfectly safe. We’re all here and following government guidelines. we were deep cleansed last week.”
“But you’are essential workers. I’m not, and shouldn’t you be discouraging people from visiting the surgery for unnecessary reasons?”
“oh no, there’s no reason for that”.
This surgery was the first in the Uk to have a Coronavirus case who hasn’t been outside the UK, and they’re carrying on as normal, seemingly oblivious to precautions they could be taking…

If you know which foods contain what you need but don’t eat them, take a Berocca or the much cheaper supermarket equivalent every day. They have an overabundance of just about all the necessary vits and minerals.
If you have a varied diet though, you should be ok…

“Given the exponential transmission rate there ain’t no stopping this.”

Except it’s not exponential. If it was there would be millions infected already with deaths in the hundreds of thousands, instead of being a tiny fraction of the usual flu deaths…
Cheesus, you lot are as bad as the daily wail!

Looks good to me! Add some porridge or other oats to your diet and a maybe use walnut oil for cooking, and you’re good to go. I quit statins a long while ago. My cholesterol level was 9.5 twelve years ago, and last week was 3.5. No pharmaceuticals involved! Plenty of red wine though!

I have an iFi Zen Bluetooth receiver plugged into my audio incinerations amp. It sounds bloody lovely! At 120 sobs it’s at the cheaper end of their range which includes some lovely looking stuff…

What I did think was odd was that a few weeks after the Sunday Times was warning about his Patient Capital fund, Ian Cowie went and invested a load in it. He obviously doesn’t read the paper himself, just writes for it!

Posted 52 minutes ago

He’s very good at telling you what he’s bought; very slow at admitting he was wrong!
But aren’t they all…

Bore score? Anything to do with the 20k service intervals?

That’s the sort of crisis a Porsche on PCP really ain’t….

And are the drug companies any better? Viagra has the potential to be one of the most effective cures for period pain, yet the profits are rolling in and another series of trials just isn’t worth the effort…

“Possibly one of the most offensive things I’ve heard in a while.”

you need to get out more!

I stopped taking statins about ten years ago when I suffered joint and muscle pain while taking them. I was also on a raft of other drugs with potential side effects I may or may not have been experiencing: Ace inhibitors – aggression, Beta blockers – Renal impairment, kidney stones and gout developed whilst on them and the gout continued for ten years until I took up Yoga…
GPs do have a tendency to over prescribe on some drugs without really giving the patient’s lifestyle much thought. They often don’t understand diet and they dismiss alternative therapies out of hand.
I am now of the conclusion that if a middle aged, white, English male doctor approaches me I shouldn’t just walk away, I bleedin’ run! (Not even said in jest!)

” As an amateur you are much more likely to get a consistent return in the long run if you avoid individual company shares.”

+1, though I prefer Trusts…

I use ADVFN. Real time share prices and other info on shares around the world. Also the HL app for investing, and Trustnet for fund and trust info.

Audi do make some very pretty cars. Mercedes, and to a lesser extent BMW, seem to have caught the Japanese habit of poking sharpened pencils in their designers’ eyes. It ain’t hard to make a good looking big car. Why is it that only Alfa and Audi can do it with the more every day cars?

God that bloke is boring!

I use
https://www.rhspecialistinsurance.co.uk

for my Alfa Junior, and my more modern cars too. They were the only specialist insurer I found who would offer unlimited mileage cover.
I pay £160 pa for comp cover withh £100 excess inc breakdown recovery and legal expenses with up to 3 months international travel included.
I drained my (Japanese) battery in Italy earlier this year due to leaving the lights on while taking pics.Half an hour after calling them I was on the road again!

“He should have got a jack russell instead.”
They’d soon teach him to get off his fat arse!

Huskies? Have met a few, only a couple (malamutes) off lead. Never met a wrong’un, but they are very strong dogs. Enjoy a sing song, and sound good.
Good foot warmers too…
I know one woman who walks three (rescues), tied to her waist. She’s never been dragged anywhere, never had an issue at all.
Yes they’re working dogs, but so are border collies, spaniels and Jack Russells…

“On the other hand he doesn’t have the right to make everyone worry about him.”

Yes he does! Your probable overreaction is your problem , not his.

Selfishness is not doing what you want to do, but expecting everyone else to do what you want them to do.
Give him some space !

Saunton Sands, 1976, A 5 mile beach, sand dunes, surf, and Tessa, a ballerina from Walton on Thames…
Sob…..

“Portnoy’s Complaint” by Philip Roth

Stop worrying, leave the poor kid alone and let the teachers do their job. It’s very early days and either he “gets” maths or he doesn’t. He’s in the top set so clearly does. Let him get on with it! Your meddling is doing his confidence no favours at all.

“I always wonder how eye wateringly expensive it is to get treated by the Supervet, Noel Fitzpatrick.”

A friend remortgaged his house to pay his Visla’s bill…

A cat scan at the supervet’s oncology dept on my late Jack Russell was nearly £3k…

They’re good!
I live 800ft up in the Surrey Alps and we’ve had snow a few times in the last couple of years, nothing major but enough to stop Range Rovers on ornery tyres getting up ( and more crucially, down) the Hill. My daughter has Vredestein Quatrac on her Seat Mii and hasn’t had a problem getting up or down stuff that stops 4WDs.
EDIT: I have Nokian All Weathers on my Subaru and they ARE squirmy in the summer, though much better in the rain than any true Winter tyre I’ve tried…

There are many pubs just north of Chi serving very, very good food but very few in or South worth a visit; The one at Dell Quay being an exception. The best I have found is the Richmond Arms in Lavant. The food is beautiful!

Thanks Y’all,
Decathlon has already been mooted, they are FUN, and 2nd hand is a possiblitity.
Now to look at ebay…

This may need a rethink…

Pootling to the shops and stuff. Maybe the odd bit of easy offroad.
I know its not much dough but that’s the budget…

Don’t get too low LongDog, There may be light at the end of the tunnel…
I was diagnosed with Angina 12 years ago at the age of 43. I had half a dozen stents in a couple of years and a double bypass 10 years ago this july. I was on a hatful of meds including Beta blockers, Ace inhibitors, statins, aspirin, and a couple of others I can’t remember. I’m now on nothing, eating reasonably carefully and feeling better than ever! I have retired so that undoubtedly helps with the stress levels.
Two years to the day after my bypass I found myself on my bike at the foot of the biggest climb round here, 700 ft from Thursley to Gibbet Hill. Despite being on Bisoprolol and Ramipril I thought I’d try it. It took me over two hours to do two and a half miles. It wasn’t fun, so I decided to come off the drugs. I discussed it with my cardiologist and he agreed I should phase them out over a few months. He did take some persuading though…
There may be reasons why you need to continue with your meds, but it does seem to me that they are used as a safety blanket for the inert when a bit of vigorous exercise may actually be better!

Side effects? Mine were…

Statins, all of them ; muscle pain
Ace inhibitors, Ramipril ; Severe aggression
Beta blockers, Bisoprolol ; A resting heart rate of 24, Dizziness, Lethargy, Kidney Stones and Gout! The last two are not pleasant and the gout has been persistant. Now sorted thanks to a fondness for Yoga teachers…

Heart problems are not the end of the world. It’s only a **** pump!
It’s not going to stop me doing anything I want to do…

https://youtu.be/ar7sKNb4UUE