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Https://drive.google.com/file/d/13XhCzp8-dsB8_Ii-wvf0Cwd024VfoUHY/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FCxz2PNtCgJAuV3XUoWOP_mkQJ9tzHcS/view?usp=sharing

Funny coincidence the last users in the alphabet list tend to be my favourite posters.

I'll use that worksheet so any one user's posts can be viewed from their history.

FormattedDate= Date.ToText(DateTime.Date(DateTime.LocalNow()))

is now one command so I am a happy bunny. Data types are usually the problem.

Pages 1 and 2 are numbers, but the url is always text e.g. ?page=1

I'll leave you in peace, Bots however achieves pieces!

Colm is optimistic that earnings from Kala will be almost immediate but does not say whether his value of 1 is days,weeks,months,quarters,years or decades.

Talking to others definitely concentrates the mind, explaining a problem to someone makes you think logically and can solve the problem without them responding? I remembered using AI for my complicated solution that was lost.

And I clearly asked a simpler question and got this - from which I have a working solution.

AI response was ..

To get a date in Power Query M without the time component, you can use the function DateTime.Date(yourDateTimeValue), which extracts just the date part from a datetime value. Alternatively, you can convert a datetime to a date using Date.From(yourDateTimeValue).

Needed two steps .... so close but so far with my original coding. Debugging is almost non-existent Dates are integers, DateTime are number with a decimal point followed by a fraction of a day, so .5 is noon or 12 hours (half of 24!).

let

CurrentDate = Date.From(DateTime.LocalNow()),

FormattedDate = Date.ToText(CurrentDate,"dd MMM yyyy"),

Query1 = ({1..2}),

#"Converted to Table" = Table.FromList(Query1, Splitter.SplitByNothing(), null, null, ExtraValues.Error),

#"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Converted to Table",{{"Column1", type text}}),

#"Renamed Columns" = Table.RenameColumns(#"Changed Type",{{"Column1", "Pagenum"}}),

Custom1 = #"Renamed Columns",

#"Invoked Custom Function" = Table.AddColumn(Custom1, "PostersOnPage", each PostersOnPage([Pagenum])),

#"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Invoked Custom Function",{"Pagenum"}),

#"Expanded PostersOnPage" = Table.ExpandTableColumn(#"Removed Columns", "PostersOnPage", {"Column1", "Column2", "Column3", "Column4"}),

#"Renamed Columns1" = Table.RenameColumns(#"Expanded PostersOnPage",{{"Column1", "Postername"}, {"Column2", "Subject"}, {"Column3", "PostedTime"}, {"Column4", "PostContent"}}),

#"Capitalized" = Table.TransformColumns(#"Renamed Columns1",{{"Postername", Text.Proper, type text}}),

#"Replaced Value" = Table.ReplaceValue(#"Capitalized",each "Today",FormattedDate,Replacer.ReplaceText,{"PostedTime"}),

Custom2 = #"Replaced Value",

#"Converted to Answers" = Table.Combine({#"Custom2"})

in

Custom2

I changed to 1..2 hence 2 pages x 25 rows , and swapped columns round so WRAP was needed on the Post Content.

This shows the full content ...

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vdCVSSKLQzoO5JW845ryKIlO-J-6Jqrn/view?usp=sharing

and this shows Today not changing to 17th if there is a PQ expert out there (I am not).

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BQBk2IDlo9wmqt0Sp0BLr-0zCDG1HfBO/view?usp=sharing

Let

Query1 = ({1..100}),

#"Converted to Table" = Table.FromList(Query1, Splitter.SplitByNothing(), null, null, ExtraValues.Error),

#"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Converted to Table",{{"Column1", type text}}),

#"Renamed Columns" = Table.RenameColumns(#"Changed Type",{{"Column1", "Pagenum"}}),

Custom1 = #"Renamed Columns",

#"Invoked Custom Function" = Table.AddColumn(Custom1, "PostersOnPage", each PostersOnPage([Pagenum])),

#"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Invoked Custom Function",{"Pagenum"}),

#"Expanded PostersOnPage" = Table.ExpandTableColumn(#"Removed Columns", "PostersOnPage", {"Column1", "Column2", "Column3", "Column4"}),

#"Renamed Columns1" = Table.RenameColumns(#"Expanded PostersOnPage",{{"Column1", "Postername"}, {"Column2", "Subject"}, {"Column3", "PostedTime"}, {"Column4", "PostContent"}}),

#"Capitalized" = Table.TransformColumns(#"Renamed Columns1",{{"Postername", Text.Proper, type text}}),

#"Replaced Value" = Table.ReplaceValue(#"Capitalized",each "Today",Date.From(DateTime.LocalNow()),Replacer.ReplaceText,{"PostedTime"}),

Custom2 = #"Replaced Value",

#"Converted to Answers" = Table.Combine({#"Custom2"})

in

Custom2

===========================

The above calls a function PostersOnPage which downloads one page of 25 posts!

1..100 stipulates which pages to lad so 100 pages x 25 is 2500 rows.

Yesterday the top two posts showed Today rather than 16th Jan 2026 and despite finding a way to Change Today in my early days , I seem to have lost that solution. Power Query automatically does things for you so it has replaced a new version of the workbook over the earlier version I guess.

It is hard work on your own with little short term memory. Cannot remember how i solved Today problem.

The whole Post is in column 4 so using Excel find will work for the last 2500 posts!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UTXORkPU21heQ7_l2UM8LvwK58ruuPpK/view?usp=sharing

Cannot see any news from TLOU so someone has bought a few (82,334).

The first of many maybe? On our way back to 5p or 10c which should have held up imho.

I am getting near to my new search engine using Power Query.

The whole history is loaded , from that I will produce a list of people who have posted on TLOU so we can search in seconds!

Quite nostalgic seeing some of the Usernames!

This is a test for Power Query refreshes.

PQ does not honour the FILTER so Bots messages appear.

A quick answer to which planet I live on?

The same one where Bots brain died years ago if it was ever alive?

Debts will mount as we borrow from Kala and what will they be?

The cost to date for adding Solar Panels and for producing improved gas flows.

Everyday costs will be covered by our new-found incomes and as Panels increase so will our share of the profits reducing the debt almost for sure. Income from the PPA needs clarification because I have not seen whether repayments are mandatory on those earnings and whether all 100% of PPA is ours? My reading is 50-50 is on Kala profits only. Whatever we make from BPC is the original TLOU business that Kala say they'll help finance rather than draw upon.

Kala will prosper if they finance extra drills whether in Lesedi or Mamba. I am interested in seeing whether TLOU can earn more from BPC than from Kala over the first few years. The Mutual benefits ought to be obvious.

Kala have to keep TLOU funded for Kala to grow. Starving TLOU of funds will not allow Kala to expand at Lesedi.

They need electricity or gas and they are TLOU's responsibility. I don't know everything ,for starters, I don't have any interest in the sort of Botswana projects that interest you. The nearest you get to TLOU's involvement is whether BPC will pay us?

BPC are losing money on other sources of energy. Of course that makes it difficult to find the funds for it.

At Lesedi the power will be profitable , the more they sell the more profit they make!! Different ballgame entirely!

The same mutuality applies between BPC and TLOU the more we sell to BPC the more profit for both of them?

And if this is the mainstream of our income we can finance some the BPC side of the business ourselves.

Why don't people see how strong TLOU is. Trillions of cu ft of gas with nowhere to go yet, makes getting it out of the ground now unnecessary and has been for years. That is changing soon and 2026 will be extremely interesting.

Imho there is only only the gas flows question to answer.

Good or bad does not matter.

If they are promising we'll make money from gas and the income will start.

But if it going to take a while to reach that goal, then we'll score at the other end!

Solar panels will be installed and we'll make money there instead! It won't be 24/7 unless they invest in battery technology or some other means of storing electricity for the slack periods.

And we'll end up with interest free debts totalling the cost of Solar and Gas! We'll reach the peak costs of either one depending on the results but in time the debt will be the same - whatever it takes to be profitable up to 25Mw plus what Kala use at Lesedi. TLOU will end up repaying similar amounts but Solar costs are going to be possibly sooner than later.

No news is expected until the decision can be made.

I'm hoping for superior gas flow predictions because it offers 24/7 power and presumably more profit.

And we'll have have the business we planned for for years. If Kala's Data Centres are also profitable it will be a bonus.

And our debt will sort itself over the years. Otherwise, and we'll need to have planned how we handle it AND THAT IS NEWS THAT WILL MAKE BREAK the partnership and the two partners. I expect it to go well unless AI turns full circle very soon.

If we had started off planning what we have planned from 2026 onwards back in 2016, I would be despondent too.

But the project has grown with every delay - and now we will be going live with Solar and CBM electricity virtually guaranteed and instead of huge debt and interest on that debt , or massive dilution , we have remained at 1.3BN for quite a while and it looks like staying well below the 2BN shares that some have predicted ad nausea for yonks.

For those of you who moved to IG with Steel and a few more of us .... I had good news from IG today,

£24 custodial fees were payable per quearter if you completed less than 2 transaction in a quarter AND YOUR PORTFOLIO IS WORTH LESS THAN £15k. When the shareprice is 1.3c , £15k equates to 2,307,692 shares, a significant holding!

My account was over £100k for a long time but I fell foul of the 15k threshold last quarter and had to make some trades to thwart the charge.

That Custodial Fee has been axed as of today so we can all relax. The £24 was the charge for 3 x £8 commission per trade.

But they no longer charge commission on ASX TLOU shares, so refunding commission would never reach £24 irrespective of the number of trades. AT £8 they deducted each £8 paid. So 2 trades in a quarter came to £8 custodial feees, subject to the £15k threshold on the last day of the quarter.

Steel is you want to average down then today 1.6c is the buy (0.65p) and you can trade for as little as £45 if you trade in AUD (90AUD minimum). Credit you account with GBP , they do the FX to AUD for the amount you need. So if you buy 90AUD worth but have £200 $400AUD equivalent on GBP , they'll only convert about £45 (subject to FX rate) of your £200!

And they pay 3.75% interest on that £155 .Better than an ISA cash account interest.

I am tempted to move some Cash ISA money into MY IG ISA trades account - but fear it'll backfire on me?

And it will it be a ISA transfer or a cash deposit subject to £20K LIMIT P.A.?

My main fear is whether moving the money back to a Cash ISA will be straightforward. And how complicated it will be for my heirs to sort out?

Got my minimum order of 90AUD @1.6 {1.4 sell 1.6 buy} and again @1.7 {1.6 sell 1.7 buy} a few minutes later, so 12k shares for £100. They'll be worth £500+ after the next RNS , I hope, from New investor money picking up bargains from those of you who do not believe how undervalued this share is.

And he changes personality and name when the wind changes direction.

Is the next Bond going to be female? Multi-tasking may mean a more diverse train of thought.

Callum Turner , Dua Lipa's current partner , is tipped I see. Dua Lipa was a better choice though she is going to sing the theme tune if the report I read is correct. Adele got an Oscar for Skyfall , Dua Lipa as Bond and the singer could get 2!

How many times has TLOU's NEWS page remained unchanged? The 25th November 2024 everytime I look is so irritating.

Surely Colm must have something worth reporting since but it is only a few weeks ago with Xmas and New Year in the middle.

Sorry Chap , I am currently working on the old search engine and could not load anything because of LSE privileges or lack of them. Finally got it to work by logging off LSE and back on again.

But when I was logged out my filter was inaccessible so I saw his posts. And if someone taps your knee it triggers a reaction , and I kicked out yet again.

Winni I have come up with a possible explanation for why someone might believe in TG's complicity over the PPA.

It is total BS but most negatives aare when it comes to TG!

Lefoko gave us an unexpected XMAS present a few years ago. In the middle of lockdowns with the shareprice at rockbottom and nothing progressing at Lesedi, we had a PPA of 2 or 3 MW. TG's ideal numbers if my logic is correct.

Out of the blue, Lefoko raised it to 10MW thinking it might help us - which was rubbish!

Has Tlou ever backed this 10MW? We still refer to a low PPA rising to 10MW - so I think not but it shows we accepted the present however little it was needed!

And , of course , if you believe Lefoko was taking bribes , that coincides with this unwanted XMAS present!!

It seems to be apparent the bribes were from China but was there a belief at one time that one was from TLOU?

We were scurrying for ways to survive lockdowns - of course there was no money for bribes , and if I'm right , we had SFA interest in the size of the PPA ever! Seka and Govt forced us to bid within the 100MW range when TG always knew that selling electricity was the very least of his worries and it still is!

I was amazed the Lefoko put his neck to try to help us. I'll try to find my post at the time! Nobody thought Lefoko was bent at the time and maybe he was not?

Winni, you now know why Alan Boarder chat came up, and why I thought a poster was you.

GpT does not exist for me on Hot Copper.

The only times I see GpT is where he started a thread or was the last one to comment!

But Hot Copper suppress everything he posts , not even green slime, you tell them to ignore GpT and they do.

TG definitely left himself available for advice - hardly likely if he had legal worries hanging over him. Colm would be reluctant to receive it in case he was implicated in TG misdoings? And Kala's enthusiasm for TLOU would have been kerbed imho.

I honestly wish TG would sue the clown for defamation of his character. With Donks early IPO entry , TLOU should be able to identify one of the usernames and a correlation with Kenmare shares. Of course TG would not entertain that idea because he is a gentleman and the scoundrel is not worth the time of day. We should not be talking about TG at all - he retired to get some peace and he does not need ignorant speculation about himself.

As you say most of us have speculated in TLOU and should be very happy where we are currently.

Time to filter - but the grid is still unavailable to us. Funding a grid connection without dewatering first is good money after bad. And creating large gas flows that has nowhere to go because the substations, switching gear and other smaller items are not complete, again because of funding limitations.

Since March our funding is due to be sorted out by Kala. The generators each 1.35MW are on site and may even be commissioned already. The gas terminal has been ready for a while. Kala connected a year ago to a temporary one so it will be simple to repeat it now. TLOU have periphery to prepare and standards to uphold for BPC to adopt the TX line. We'll have longer to wait there - especially if Kala are using all the available gas for their kit.

HS2 need rails to run new locomotives on - have you complained they haven't bought them yet?

Why would they? Same for TLOU until now and within 6 months I reckon we will be able to trade with either of our business partners. Then we'll see how quickly dewatering can be achieved and I'm expecting it is more advanced than we fear.

Either that or we'll be commissioning Solar panels to buy time for CBM gas flows to improve.

Why would TLOU lie about the delivery when we all know it several months late??

That attitude is why you are so despised on here! We are sick of your negativity!

I suspect TG retired for health reasons , could be his own or someone close to him. And 99% of us suspect the same.

But he has left TLOU in a position where TG can be rested because the coals contain trillions of cu ft of gas officially.

It will be needed very shortly by Kala themselves, and it won't be long before TLOU need it to commission the line to the grid. Both generators have been delivered from TB's correspondence before Xmas. 2026 will see them installed and then the fun will start. extremely

Unless they were delivered by Moagi's cattle I don't see his relevance to any of this!

Perhaps the Chinese sponsorship was the delay 🥲but I doubt it somehow.

I unfiltered you to report your irrelevant Moagi posts. I'll believe TG has something to hide once it is officially an issue but until then I am extremely happy with him! His absence will save his salary or allow us to pay the Doc if needs be.

TG is available to all and sundry if they need his advice on CBM and Solar production. But the Doc is probably more valuable to Kala on Data centre issues. As long as we provide enough gas and Kala ensure we are funded well enough to do our duty for the partnership then 2026 should see an improved share price for TLOU shareholders.

From M1M's quote, we can see that Bots has not appreciated TG's progress purely because of the time factor!

The time factors regularly changed the plans, and that created another timefactor because the plans were always more ambitious than the original idea.

1. The PPA insisted tenders were from companies with a history of supplying GAS to Botswana.

2. TG stated we'd be supplying bottled gas within 18 months prior to that faut pas! And it was possible, imho.

3. Instead of everything rolling forward at speed - up to 2 years was wasted - and turn-key electric to Serowe was planned.

4. Funding for TX lines and generators was required and a few years more.

5. Covid messed up everything - progress was negative as we shutdown wells instead of building more.

6. Dewatering Lesedi proved to be slow throughout the delays adding to timing problems.

7. Excursions to investigate Crypto mining and Green Hydrogen were axed during lockdowns but TX were built.

8. Post lockdowns , the TX lines and substations were advanced using with funding mainly from Pension Fund and Doc and some shareholders including directors.

9. And then Kala challenged TG to prove he could supply reliable flows of gas albeit at limited levels!

10. Challenge was accepted and proved successful in the month's trial, February 2025.

11. Kala and TLOU formed a partnership during March and TLOU agreed to supply gas to Kala.

12. In return, Kala promised to fund TLOU's plans to supply Serowe with electricity with interest free loans.

13. Kala would build a data Centre and share their profits with TLOU 50-50. Loans will be repaid from TLOU's share of the profits over time. Without interest to find on top of the debt , TLOU's funding problems disappeared and Doc and Pension Fund were relieved of having to bail out dissatisfied shareholders who baulked at giving the company the funds they need,

14. The current partnership gives TLOU everything they dreamed of , plus a second income from the Data Centre profits if they appear. If they don't , we'll be supplying Serowe with elecricity from all our gas production, instead of sharing it between BPC and Kala.

15. TG has set up CBM powered electricity, Solar power, and Gas supplies , far more than the bottled gas deliveries by truck.

16. If Kala succeed they'll be encouraging TLOU to expand gas flows and will surely be pleased to fund the expansions. Those funds will extend our debt , but who cares , Kala will have higher profits presumably, so higher repayments over however long it takes and then we'll receive the entire 50-50 of profits, rather 25% of our 50% , with 75% being our repayments.

It is late, I was only checking in to see if LSE had removed the green posts or whether I should unfilter them and report them too!

How can someone who does not understand facts that are history in the making profess the future? He does not realise how stupid he is despite every man and his dog telling him repeatedly????

TG has clearly put TLOU in their strongest position yet and all the cynic does is call him a buffoon in his own words.

The fact that a UAE consortium backs him is totally ignored but the meths drinkers in Botswana’s boozers know TG is involved in corruptiion and THEY are more credible than St. Tony????

botswana must be a wonderful country if $386k is their record crime.

bots would be suicidal if michelle mone and han**** were connected with tlou in the uk.

bots name himself as moagi on this very board - so what does that say about him?

backhanders in africa is probably what we all expected - but tlou clearly did not receive any benefits from anyone other than the pension fund who are sort of govt? and they paid over the odds for placings up to 11p. don't think the doc would have stuck around if he sensed improprieties and neither would kala imho. it is time for colm to send a new year message that should cheer us up.

Done it and was pleasantly surprised that 4.02 and 4.09 are still being offered for existing customers.

3.95% is for new customers.