Greg Smith

But yeah, that happens in government.

That happens in local government.

You know, councils have budgets and, you know, they don't sort of quite meet the spending budgets.

And then you see a whole bunch of cones everywhere around the roads because they're out sort of spending the budgets.

And you see it in business as well.

So you have a budget, but things happen, things change, you know, can be out of your control.

But you're sort of planning for it.

It sort of applies to investors as well.

Things happen that are outside of your control.

But if you make a plan based on your own circumstances and your best, I suppose, knowledge of how things are going to play out and what's suitable for you, then that's all you can really do.

It was interesting.

We actually started a roadshow.

I think they started flying missiles on the weekend.

We started our roadshow on the Monday.

So we went round up and down the country, sort of meeting investors, meeting advisors.

So it was quite an interesting backdrop.

Obviously, that was the end of February and then March was a pretty...

volatile time and one of our we had a couple of messages right and it was interesting actually i did actually manage a bit of a smile at the end of um nicola willis's speech when she talked about she talked about the budget being responsible but she also talked about staying the course and that was actually the the subject line of a lot of our emails that went out communication's so important

And, yeah, people, when they see mainstream headlines, they see there's missiles flying around Iran, they see petrol prices and oil prices going up, you know, a war, you know, albeit not close to us.

Yeah, they react.