I've sometimes fantasised as to what it would've been like to...

I've sometimes fantasised as to what it would've been like to have been one of Australia's first settlers. You could pretty well claim as much land as you wanted, and were able to claim. All at minimal cost. You, and future generations in your family, would be set.

Silver Chef are doing exactly the same thing now for shareholders, with their super-confident call on Canada. The rewards are fabulous; the risks - few.

Anyone who has closely followed the story over the last decade, looking at all the company's pronouncements and interviews with the relatively conservative and very able executive chairman Alan English, should by now have worked out why he sounds like the cat that's got the cream.