Gerry557 wrote:You both are correct so it will be Amber Green Green Green unless they make any changes. Anyway I have added a few more this morning so whilst not showing any dark green

The actual £ figure will be a bit higher.
Now I need to sort out January and income has fallen that month 2 years in a row not helped by NG. cutting its divi and having sold a holding. Maybe I need to get onto that heros list and see who pays out when

Self-limiting income-investment options because of a particular dividend payment month has always felt to me like a very bad method of choosing what to buy, and stepping away from a 'hand-to-mouth' dividend process that drives the desire for such a monthly drum-beat of payments is in my view likely to deliver better long-term performance than using that type of 'payment-month' filter from the outset.
I'd perhaps consider allowing a moderate capital-buffer to build up, where you'd then continue to spin-off your usual income-requirements, but where a level of 'dividend backfill' can then be constantly topping up that capital-buffer, thus removing the need for a particular January payment to
have to be delivered as dividends in the same month as you want to use them.
Even if an income-investment is bought specifically to take advantage of a particular dividend-payment month, there is nothing to stop the company or investment manager changing those arrangements any time they wish to, which would instantly negate any perceived benefit in the first place.
Whilst there is an element of opportunity-cost involved with building such an income-delivery buffer, I strongly suspect that small cost to be lower over the long term than using a 'dividend-payment-month' filter at the
start of any income-investment optioneering process, where broader, better quality options are likely to have been filtered out for a spurious reason that can be removed with a small tweak to your current income-delivery process.
There are much more important considerations that should be made in terms of investment-quality when we're looking to invest for income, and the use of a dividend-buffer can allow you to concentrate on those, rather than a particular payment-month in the calendar that you've got no real control over once you've committed your funds anyway...
Cheers,
Itsallaguess