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<\/p>\n#Brent #Dax <\/b>\u00a0Folk who stay in cities may have trouble with this but, in the countryside, we do not have rat problems. Except for rumours of rats which can be quite scary sounding, usually due to sightings by outsiders. Locally in our bit of Argyll, stories of super large rats abound, quite a puzzle due to food typically not lying around. On Friday, I watched one of these superman rats walking along our patio before vanishing below the “lawnmower” ramp which leads up to the back garden.<\/p>\n
There was a problem with this particular rat.<\/p>\n
If was roughly the size of a large domestic cat but had short legs, along with a fairly bushy tail. In fact, this looked like the sort of animal folk would cuddle, a category rats do not fall into. Except for folk who keep rats, perhaps similar with a strange human psyche which sometimes even votes for Green or LibDem… A few minutes on Google revealed the identity of our garden rat. It was a Pine Marten, fairly rare and belonging to a colour scheme which has been driving me crackers since January, when I first saw one. My most recent view was from the rear, a bushy tail in evidence but totally unlike a squirrel.<\/p>\n
It transpires Pine Martens are fairly aggressive carnivore,\u00a0 this explaining a few remnants found in the long grass. It seems they do not differentiate between rats, mice, squirrel, wood pigeon or voles, when visiting our garden takeaway.<\/p>\n
It’s quite strange, how personally I am happy to use an Infrared Sight when searching for rodents but abhor the concept of shooting any other animal. Why is a Pine Marten cuddly, while a mouse or rat isn’t? Pine Marten look cute, look friendly, looking like they should audition for Insurance TV commercials’ in place of Meerkats. To be honest, we are quite pleased to have an invasion of Pine Marten, Red Squirrel, and that dodgy Red Squirrel we call Billy, after Billy Idol. It has a black coat, a red Mohican, and a white face, spending an absurd number of years falling out with other Squirrel. It once ran up my body, jumping off my left shoulder to a tree, while making a getaway from a furious Red ‘proper’ Squirrel.<\/p>\n
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Identifying a rare animal was about as pleasing as NatWest doing something useful to the share price. The recent visit to 278p met our initial target from our analysis three weeks ago and it still looks dangerously encouraging, most investors assuming their share price will behave like a cornered animal but to judge by some big picture moves, things could be interesting. Optimism remains present, due to the price managing to actually close (very slightly) above our 278p target level on four occasions.\u00a0 It’s now the case where above 281p calculates as capable of an initial 295p with our secondary, if bettered, now working out at a game changing 315p<\/p>\n
Share price closure around the 315p level shall prove to be critical for the longer term, due to Big Picture calculations entering the picture.\u00a0 To cut a long and boring story short, we shall be forced to regard a long term 465p as exerting a magnetic attraction for the future.<\/p>\n
If things intend go wrong, below 237p shall be viewed as troublesome, suggesting coming reversal to 218 with our secondary, if broken, a hopeful bottom at 197p.<\/p>\n
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