I've Just about recovered from one of the worst Christmas's ever. The outside water pipes froze on Christmas Day and I ended taking everything to my mums and making Christmas Dinner for five.
We filled a few containers with water and went back home. I wouldn't normally agree with shopping on an official holiday but it enabled us to get a car load of 5ltr water, so I could keep the tanks topped up. It's was a bind crawling around in the loft space but needs must. When the pipes thawed the sudden surge wrenched the joint apart at the stop valve on the wrong side.

We had a water feature in our kitchen, and we couldn't get a plumber until 7AM in the morning. I spent all night like the legend of the Little Dutch Boy” holding back the water (by keeping the pipes together), and thoroughly soaked to the skin.
I had to pay 4X the going rate to get a plumber too.....

All's well now.
Someone get me a large Jack Daniels, no water, or no ice please .... 
I took a bite of ….......
http://www.vaneminerals.com/about/today. I've been watching it for a while now. Uranium/Copper/Gold/Silver.
VANE Minerals plc was founded by the former international exploration team of Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc., one of the worlds largest producers of copper and gold. The team negotiated exclusive access to Freeport McMoRan's global exploration database, made up of 7,000 plus files generated over nearly 100 years of exploration and, following the review of these files, VANE is ideally placed to capitalise on project acquisition opportunities.
TLR jumped back pretty quickly. I'm wondering if I was too hasty in cutting my losses there.
Excellent moves in my portfolio all around.........
Long may it continue.
A very Happy New Year to you all.

ATB
