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Both of us have the Citi AA credit cards. We got them quickly but a colleague was rejected. This card is handy fo us as we buy our family AA Miles for Christmas during the Thanksgiving promo that runs for about a week usually. Try for a 100k sign on.

Our turn tonight so we leave London for Singapore this evening. I will plan to go Krug,caviar and icy vodka as usual.

We are being bought out of Trident Royalties TRR by a Perth based royalties trust named Deterra which is DRR. We went to the acquisition meeting in London and we got the distinct impression that the Trident board was not expecting anyone from Australia to attend. It was a good meeting that ran...

Definitely an AGM that AFFers should attend. The new chairman should be way better than the current dud.

I never rated Goyder and even though large bonuses were paid it appears that over AJ’s tenure there was no actual profit made in a net sense over 16 years. We stopped using QFI during that period as we found better elsewhere.

With the stock markets gyrating we went off to the US and then U.K. to see how they are handling cost of living issues. After a good review we now know that prices have gone up a lot so in Australia you should not be thinking of trashing your super fund by buying a 4wd and huge caravan and then...

Well these Delta pesos cost us nothing so we might get to use them for something.i remember flying Delta from LAX to Salt Lake City as AA had an awful plane to go there. We have lots of AA miles.

Well @RooFlyer getting US dollar dividends has been painful. I loved it when our two social security cards in 1984 said “Not valid for employment”.That saved us…..

Looking at Rubicon as a recovery stock. Good technology but poorly managed so far. They are doing placements at the moment to keep running.

Because we flew Delta to New York from LAX we decided to pick up 2 Delta Amex credit cards. It was 65,000 Delta Miles by spending $3,000 USD for no cost credit card. Not sure if these Delta Miles will be worth anything but we like some of Delta’s destinations.

Thanks @JohnM for your thoughts on my overloaded cellar. Typically when we go out I go French bubbles and a really good red.

Don’t forget to work on spending kids inheritance which is referred to as SKI. I have too much wine in the cellar, too many investments and I know at 74 there are things I won’t be able to do in 10 years time. Have 13 months to go in my consulting role and then retirement will be real.

We bought some British pounds at 0.5250 before our latest trip thru Bell FX and our AUD has weakened in the last couple of days. Not having been here since March 2020 we have noticed some prices have surged. China going poorly is not helping the AUD.

Mrscove was quite chuffed that the Singapore flight attendant gave her a little bear for our 5 month old grand daughter on our flight to London.

Well @QF WP just wear shorts and let the wound quietly heal. If clients have a problem with this don’t be afraid to dump them. Most of us have health issues from time to time so it’s just part of one’s life.

I can see that you are reading along @JessicaTam. I can recommend that you try either SQ or Qatar in the front of their planes. I think you can ask for PH Rare when you are in the SQ TPR. That is a lovely champagne. I feel sure one of my sons did that.

Go the caviar with icy vodka plus the Krug and the French red not necessarily in that order @travelnutjohn. Our turn is next Tuesday after a night at Crowne Plaza Changi.

Sneaking $28 million from too many means that some of our banks have not learnt too much since their last inquisition.

CBA has been closing plenty of branches so their real estate and staff costs should be less than last year. We have been Bankwest customers for about 55 years and that is now just a business name.

Thanks for repairing that @oz_mark. We stopped flying QF internationally so we have been unaffected.