Peter

This arrived yesterday and have had my nose in it. Excellent advice which you can research further. One thing is obvious....tell the life insurance that you have high BP,smoke,drink and you can get a better annuity. I can smell a Porsche lurking although my godmother sent me a birthday card with an E Type jag on it.... oh the choice...Lotus. They also included the latest Which mag for £1 All I have to do is cancel the subscription before 21/4/15. When my mother worked as a librarian at the local college I could always borrow back copies. Pays for itself if you want independent advice on white goods.

Dave It will get worse my pension pot wouldn't feed the local blue tits. Get the Which mag and my advice is to pay off mortgages and buy antiques.....another can of worms. I do like George 1/2nd furniture. Learn a lot from Lovejoy. I have a good pal who is a fine arts auctioneer. Investment is an opinion no more or less go from the heart and if you enjoy coins I can't see a problem. In our conservatory I have a special table full of goodies,arrow heads,amber,fossils,musket balls,flint scrapers gold and silver ingots,a flick knife dads and grandads medals and a picture of my penis when it was 10" long,,,,sadly it has shrunk an inch....but my balls are bigger.

Keep it raw and save a bundle.. TPG's are the so so wrong. If you can't grade a coin you should not be collecting

Equitable Life have done me proud.....I have swapped funds and made a lot of money. A good pot of coffee and a decent bit of meat in the oven sorts out a lot...plus the Sunday papers...Sunday sport excluded.....although the rump exposed has burnt off a few calories

My pension pot is about £150 k We own our house (about 50 k mortgage and a value of £300k plus) We also have a £200k bungalow paid up. I have friends who have retired on pensions....yes less than 50 and get a whacking pension. My brother in law got £100K and yet still gets £500 a day for freelancing my sister has got a huge pension....great for my family and daughters treated like princesses . I have worked in London and took a 4hr round trip.My daughters call me the man in a dressing gown. Something is wrong...I'm 54 and worked my bollocks off. I wanted to be a copper and not just a collector every day.

A 1835 2/6 has been on my wish list for a long time...at the right price. I also have a YH 1887 2/6 which floats my boat. I bought a PCGS MS65 1893 slabbed florin from CC and would like to get the year set. This interests me as I have the cu and a complete year set is kind of a back burner target. Any George 1 cu is a must Mr Croker I salute you.

I would have to include a spade guinea a 1717 farthing and a pair of 1698 farthings (I have them all) William and Mary coins with clear dates are also up there (cu I have a few)

Thanks Dave. Toilet roll in the fridge overnight Mrs Peter can't handle the heat. I add chilly flakes to bring out a decent sweat. Bought a Toshiba now to add a few favourites

I have North 1 so will check later. It is my birthday Saturday and my mother and Mrs Peter have a day out for me. Hopefully it will be the Fitzwilliam in Cambridge followed by a Japanese flag ring sting with adequate toilet rolls in the freezer. I have been after Hereforder Pils and hopefully the weekend should be better than the last couple.

Sorry Stewie Hammered fart I've have currently Quest on the TV and they are doing Sardines. Now where are my mushrooms?

A very belated from me....I hope you had a few prawns on the Barbie. It is my turn on Saturday and Mrs Peter should be getting me a bag of crab claws and some Hereforder Pils (if not Greene King Abbot)

Not bias at all but I hope Cameron gets another term.Look what a mess he took over.

Dave 50 ODD Scottish MP's sums it up.

In days gone by Thurston Rugby reports used to include R Sleeker,Hugh Janus and Knobby Rimmer. The obvious Mike Hunt often replaced Knobby after a rough scrum. These reports were in the local paper and our local landlord set challenges. Norma (landlady)and Nickorless the pole would be cheering us along behind the posts. In the small adds in the local paper we got Orgasm bag colour tan £2...many enquiries. Another hoot was the dancing of the flaming arseholes when about 10 ft of toilet roll was gently inserted up ones bottom and the set alight. You bloody ran an fast as you could (Scottish tour Ayr,Adrossen in the 80's) No need for a back,sack and crack....without the crack it was 33% discount. I'm now sensible member of society Only 5 ft of toilet paper and caught within 10 yds...secret is don't fart.

On Sunday morning I felt unwell. Heart was racing and balance was dodgy. So we went to the A&E. After 4 hours I was seen,blood taken and BP checked.(BP 210 ) A look of concern and an ECG was required. Results of the ECG and I was admitted to the hospital (take your overnight bag was mentioned) Many tests, X-Ray of the chest,BP and blood sugar taken every few hours. I have had 4 saline drips and 4 Vitamin B drips and BP pills increased. I still felt dizzy and ill. Monday and starting to feel better (another night in hospital) Today I was seen again by another of the hospital doctors. BP down and feeling much better. I pleaded to go home. Once the paperwork was completed Mrs Peter could come and get me. A couple more pills to take and a visit to the GP next week plus the diabetes nurse ( I have type 2 controlled by diet) I must say the nurses and Drs were brilliant and overworked. Also anyone who still smokes on a regular basis think about giving up the wards are full of them. I'm not out of the woods yet but it is great to be home.

Good luck with your venture but it seems like a buyers and sellers cut is in there.. Maybe a lazy money no object collector might be interested but I like to use my knowledge as an edge. I win some but lose more but the ones I win are within my limits so it is happy days. 2,500 sellers you are having a laugh. I used to order pizza through a 3rd party.I now get 20% off by going direct...simples

I could do several write ups on Farthings as I'm sure Colin can. With Stuart,Richard,Dave,Clive etc on selected hammered issues. What peeves me is the like of 1915 1/4's close and near TT's and only CCGB notes this. Open 2 1842 farthings the list could go on. I bought an open 2 from Sweden but the premium is for me only.

Rob has some classic coins which he has researched and burnt the midnight oil. The 1689 could take up a nice chapter plus other rarities. I'm not saying it will or would ever be complete but there is so much to be learnt and not just in random journals. Maybe we could all chip in. Call it freak coins or coins not considered by Spink. I'm sure it would be a unique publication. Robs 1689 is a beaut but the general coin press miss so much. A few write ups would be fantastic.We all have our subjects. Spink/Coin year book miss so much. Spink improved on 1ds a few years back but fall short on most milled. We could all contribute to make our 2nd £million

Just found out my BP was 220/110 when taken to hospital.....off the scale. Man flu is worse. Nothing to really joke about. I do have a fear of Dr's/ Dentist's/hospitals and Mrs Peters cooking.

A unique coin Rob.You can't put a price on a gem like that especially as mentioned in Peck. What are your intentions for your collection?/library? ....and when are we going to get a book rather than an article in a journal.

I actually like it a lot. I hope the mint does individual countries on very low mintage's to encourage collectors or my be die nrs on a few.

Mrs Peter wanted to call the Dr as I had turned green looking at Rob's coin.

Thanks for the good wishes. It was my nephews/godsons wedding in North Yorkshire this Saturday but was advised not to travel Hotel/Kennel cancelled and my sister is travelling down tomorrow to pick up my mum and aunt. My daughters are travelling up with their boyfriends and making a holiday of it.Mr nephew Dr Hull (very proud) will hopefully get a visit in the summer when everything has settled down. I will try and coincide with the Wakefield coin fair . It was my 1st in patient visit and the whole experience was way over expectations fantastic but under staffed. The village where I live has an ambulance which tends to park up on the Drs surgeries carpark (we have a couple of old peoples homes) and it can cover all the surrounding villages in a much shorter time.I can assure you it is busy and a Godsend for us yokels. Mrs Peter has given me permission to coin it for a few days as long as I do tea duties and knock together a few meals. Seems fair. Don't want to feel like this again and Debbie red wine / booze is not even on the agenda to any excess and has been the same for a long time. Not to have another pint of ABBOT or RUDDLES would kill me off. My mum had a stent fitted at 55 and is still singing and dancing at 81. Take care the lot of you.

I had a foreign gent working for me.Through a major contractor.He would work every scam. I eventually told the Contractor to get rid of (enough is enough) I even spoke to him face to face and he just grinned. I reckon he did !0k of fraud in 12 months...bus companies etc He got his time sheets signed from the project manager and then added in weekends. It wasn't just him but they were all on it including the project manager....East London A earthmoving claim I worked on in Coventry proved that the lorries could average 90mph.

Keep your lap top away from the fridge. I would love to retire but Mrs Peter has this list