Member Info for BradSmith

Could not have been better.

My ISA expires after the original deadline and that ruled out using my cash ISA to buy extra shares in the issue without losing money in lost interest and or commission.

Now I can open my new ISAs one containing my TLOU cash which I’ll transfer in full to my ISA Trades account to cover the issue+ and t’other as my Cash ISA.

Perhaps New Year is turning into the year I expected.

I am in trouble with my guts. I am constipated but have diarrhoea too so I have been going through the bog roll over 3 days! Senokot tablets are hardly necessary because my body is trying to expel everything when I am anywhere but the loo. As soon as I am in the loo the urge decreases giving me grief. Thank heavens for washing machines is all I can say.

I was a little shocked when I searched for something on the Iphone and got back a series of links to other stories!

The top one was Lefoko being censored by a court for withholding planning permission extensions to a Canadian power producer in Botswana. I hope it won't lead to the sack if that is what Bots is referring to by dead man walking.

He really went beyond the limit to give us a PPA during Covid when we could not really benefit from it with lockdown. I am sure it was well intentioned and was a good news item in a news blackout. Imagine what it would do for TLOU if Boomslang and Mamba plus the undeveloped plots at Lesedi were denied planning now? The loss of trillions of cu ft of methane would surely kill us? I am not much cop with the fingering on Iphone so never saw why the Canadians were rejected or how senior the court was.

Lots of news to catch up on ... cheers

Thanks guys, have been a hermit since Liz died in Sept 2018 so seeing in the New year in A+E was actually very convivial with patients nurses abounding. My final night in a private room was great for sleeping but my last day was on my own and it was putrid after getting used to company, no laptop , no TV, no charger for the Iphone and nobody to borrow one from.

The 4 broken ribs are 9 to 12 on the left and the docs said it was amazing that I could move at all far less walk to the toilet.

I drove to the Coop last night to buy some Paracetamol and Ibuprofen but they would not sell me more than a packet of each.

Reversing out of the drive was awful, not being able to turn to look backwards was a huge problem in the dark and rain.

So today I called my surgery to ask for a prescription and my GP asked me drive down for an 11am face to face. That was good she is is gorgeous looking and early thirties or late twenties. She had prescribed Fludrocortisone to raise my blood pressure. She also did a blood pressure test from standing and it showed 70 over 40 which is horrendously low. Amazon delivered an oxygen meter which mesures oxygen in the bottom of the lungs. Shallow breathing with painful ribs go together so they like to see 92% upwards! Bacteria in the lungs causes complications anf my new toy shows 96% and 97% with deep breaths and the lowest reading I saw was 90%. The cortisone tabs will raise all blood pressures so I need to monitor the highs when I am lain down to ensure it is not too high. The paramedic record 178 psi sitting, dropping to less than a hundred when I stood up. But I am seldom higher than 130psi so I ain't too worried.

3.3c on ASX is not so far below the offer price of 3.5c so I will be asking for excess shares. As you all know the FCA only guarantee the first £85k with you bank - so I am going to move the excess in my shares ISA on ASX/TOU. Synchronising the move so I don't lose interest on the excess is a problem so I am splitting my ISA into 2 x ISA and will transfer the excess one in full to IG.

I had my initial requirements , posted me a PDF and asked for signed PDF back as confirmation!

It read to me by snail mail , but checking the latest memos , I can edit and print the PDF , sign the printed papers, and copy and paste the signed version into an email! So I'll do that once I reach maturity on last years ISA with no loss of interest.

2023 ended with a bang for me. And 2024 started with a whimper,

I think I mentioned I fell into a hedge on a dog walk in the summer. I thought it was "vertigo" (BPPV) after looking down a those ultra thin poo bags, before tidying the ara and standing up. The world started spinnning around me and I'd fall gently to the left or backwards - happened a few times and I was worried about it happening on the motorcycle.

At 8am on New Years' Eve I woke uplate and went straight to the en suite , 12ft perhaps? Blimey - the bathromm started spinning at 100mph as I was about to sit on the loo, I fell to left on my back, and felt a stabbing feeling which pinned me to something that made no sense! Tle toilet seat? , a padded kitchen chair or a plastic bathroom wastebin which had moved under the chair?? Had o the rim of the bin but how???

I lay in bed until noon hoping my injured ribs would ease in pain that never came. Called 111 who sent a medic. I threw my keys out of the dormer window onto the lawn so he could let himself in! He did blood pressure checks etc and nothing was irregular except my painful ribs! Similar readings to the ones I measured for my GP a couple of weeks earlier.

He then had inspiration and asked me to stand for a final check! 163 psi whilst sitting. I stood and the vicious spinning came back! My pulse remained at 62 and my blood pressure dropped below a hundred ,a condition known as Postulation Drop!

He called for a ambulance and at 6:30pm I had arrived at Poole Hospital A+E , queued to be admitted and was attended by A+E staff , not Docs! By 8:30 pm I'd had a heart/chest x-ray, and a scan. I complimented the nurses on the speed of everything, a complete surprise to me , and my very pretty nurse said "but have even seen a Doc yet?".

Wheeled off to a ward-like storage area the Doc showed up at 3:30 am and I was admitted properley to the assessment ward.An osteopath checked my ribs and quickly ely found that my 9th rib was broken and requested an MRI scan.

9-12 on the left are all broken and I only got out late this afternoon and am safely home with Poppy.

I am chuffed with the outcome because I just have to take it easy when standing up and my motorbiking or driving should be safe. I was given a test today to be released. 140 psi dropped to 111 , stayed put in standing position with no spinning, and a second reading returned 111 again - nowhere near the drop to half the seated reading (would have been 70 psi) so happy days. Happy new year folks , like my BP , the only way is uo!

I wonder what the filtered one has to say?

a) Well done for trying to make 3.5c the new sp for 2024?

b) Further proof how lousey my judgement is?

c) Ian Karma has enrolled Anthony Joshuato his civll war?

We need the price to reflect the true state of the company to keep dilution low if we have more share offers.

Hopefully not - and profits will be high enough to finance expansions for a while..

I expected 2024 to be a special year - but only on the Tlou front.

Who'd have thought that lidl'old Bournemouth would be up to 11th by Xmas 2023, level with big'old Chelsea London team back in 1970. Up the Cherries ..... in all departments ... as they shout down here.

Our new owners Bill Foley and Michael B. Jordan (actor/director) and Tony Gilby?

I am surrounded by genius bosses - the first hat-trick - next comes TG's on his third business as the gaffer!

Bill guaranteed we would not be relegated last season and was proved right with 4 fixtures still to play.

His aim was to make us top half PL team - Chelsea are 10th - and I don't think Bill meant this season!

2024 is the year imho! Where are we going to have the celebration guys? We planned one for Sirius ...

All done - around £3500 by 11th Jan as expected. Fingers crossed ASX rises but I reckon I'll be very lucky if it does.

Will have to check my spreadsheet because the numbers I quoted are rubbish for ASX.

It automatically downloads the FX rates from the web and I then edit out all but 1 AUD to GBP.

i.e. https://www.xe.com/currencyconverter/convert/?Amount=1&From=GBP&To=AUD

I refresh the table from Workbook Open event and I think it must calculate the sheet before have isolated the 0.53 variable rate. Accessing the Query Table object fails on the first access but then works perfectly thereafter!

Cannot find a work round except this

on error resume next

Msgbox item 1

onerror goto 0

item 1 is now fine

The display fails so it looks fine but I hate it.

So I download the full table into the sheet and then delete cells/move cells up until I get the 1 AUD rate!

There lies the possibility of recalculations being made against a moving target.

The 3.5c offer only costs $6478 or £3470 against 3.1c sp today = £3073

Still £400 though.

But @1.68p the LSE price would have been £3110 so nothing like the figures I was contemplating.

I think I will partake and watch for FX rates before 11thJanuary to offset the wasted money a bit.

In the future I'll think it impossible that I could buy at 3.5c rather than why didn't I take a few more shares @ 3.1c?

Of course there would be $10 commissions (no frequent trader allowances for ASX trades) on those at 3.1c whilst the placing will be free!

Don't think I want any excess shares. Glad I have filtered my admirer - he'll no doubt think I am stupid - but at least I can consle myself that I did something small for the company.

meanreverter had a point - i am producing a spreadsheet with all my various assets so my heirs know what and where everything is.

it was worth doing because i tracked my freeby rolls royce shares and found they have had risen 127% recently!

i added the new asx issue and paying 3.5c is £400 more than the current price of 3.1c roughly an extra 10%!

i was critical of tlou dropping a 5p market price to 3.5p with a "sophisticated" issue.

like ***in , i am reviewing the situation , do i want to give £4.4k to tlou for £4k worth of shares on asx , or £3.2k worth on aim? 3.1c is 1.656p 3.5c is 1.87p

who'd be a ceo? can i afford to prove i am not a hypocrite. i'd feel good if the sp's rose to 3.5c and 1.87p because of the issue. fx rates complicate things - i wonder if the pula prices are more favourable? the pension fund may well be the target for this issue. the doc is in the ***in position this time round. i feel more like shylock now , quibbling about paying less than 2p for a share that i think should be in double figures seems like madness! my head hurts!

Well done TB , your analysis is proving to be correct on the AIM exclusions!

I responded to this on the other board yesterday ...

"meanreverter

15 Dec '23 - 07:28 - 9346 of 9348

The placing opportunity announced today is not available to holders of the AIM-listed shares. That seems unfair — but less so when one considers that the placing price is at a 9% premium to the last closing price on ASX.

Cherrylady

21 Dec '23 - 17:58 - 9347 of 9348 Edit

TB on LSE explained that the fairly recent undersubscription on the AIM platform precludes TLOU from having another open offer on AIM within their restrictive period of time. I have shares in TOU on ASX so I do not really see why I cannot buy on ASX.

At least the share issue will not drop the LSE SP - maybe the real reason the whingeing poms are excluded? But will the BSE and ASX price drop? It usually does for TLOU no matter whether there is sense behind it or not."

And overnight my blind faith it was not happening was contradicted when IG Australia added my 4/11 entitltlemet @ 3.5c to both my Australian accounts. I have until 11th January to action them!

Blind faith in TG is a sensible approach - he has never let me down on matters that were withing his control.

He definitely planned a small windfall for us all as a reward for our support , the price was 5p+ , it should have risen , we had an offer of buying at 4.4p , and his plan was undone by Covid ...... the Covid that one prat on here says did not interfere with other companies in Botswana .... dream on!

I think being insulted by the prat is actually complimentary and means you are certainly correct.

TB has a history of useful finds and th prat does not have a good word for him.

He ignores TG's history of success whilst thinking an ex-PM who is living in exile in fear of of his life is going to sweep back into power and make Sekaname a famous energy provider around the world. Tlou's gas will not burn but Sekaname's will, and despite TLOU almost surely going live in 2024 , Sekaname are going to fall out of the sky with a ready made power station and pip them to the post because we hear f* all from what they are doing etc etc etc

Oh, and TLOU producing gas will be a mistake because Seka will produce CNG and LNG and they don't need the gas that will appear if the containers are opened.

I'd better check what IG need from me ...... happy days! I like giving my cash to TLOU on offers rather than fools who are taking a tiny profit or a large loss because they are blind! Stick with your holding BTS you won't regret it by next Xmas.

I only need something like 2.35p per share to break even. All those little £300 p.m. buys that the prat ridiculed are mounting up and lowering my average price. And I am included in an ASX offer from the UK it seems.

How is it blind faith when the subject has made 1bn and 3.5bn from his first two gas projects, and after 11 years with no income he is within 12 months of having the first ipp in Botswana? Even people with tunnel vision can see light at theend of the tunnel now - and nobody is denying that vehemently.

Bigjeff did you not see the link TB supplied showing a series of slides?

Tx line complete at the Lesedi end, and has reached the township of Serowe, not far to go.

Substations to be built at Lesedi and connected up in Serowe? #6 is flowing gas in a record time, #4 has improved flows since they redrilled it to straighten the channels. There is gas down there so the only way is up!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bbob8E5hgx7ou9pZy__FBI2rrXUCPpLs/view?usp=drive_link

We are all united in our views of the least popular poster on here.

I see no point in stating the obvious regarding his idiocy any more.

I might unfilter him when St Tony announces our first income and phase 1 is done and dusted.

He'll never go away as long as we respond to his tripe! Once Tlou are an undoubted success it will be interesting to see what calamity he will be prophecying then.

People love to criticise football fans. I was sat 30 yards from Tom Lockyer's heart attack , and the only person in the stadium who was aware of the danger was Cherry player Phil Billing , countryman of Christian Eriksen , and both Danish internal players in 2020 and 2021! Phil must have seen the similarities and ran to Tom , face down into the turf and motionless! Phil checked he had not swallowed his tongue but made everybody very aware saving valuable seconds or maybe minutes before medics from both clubs took control.

I was proud to be a Cherry fan - our fans were singing Tom's name before and after the game was abandoned.

This image brings it all home ..... love it!!!

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=122132910662042248&set=gm.3735347270020624&idorvanity=1501008276787879

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=122132910662042248&set=gm.3735347270020624&idorvanity=1501008276787879

Why does anyone contribute or merely view this page?

Disinterest in TLOU can be ruled out , there are thousands of stocks on this and other dicussion groups around the world, so this one must stand out for some reason.

What could those reasons be for folk who have not lost their marbles yet?

TLOU are clearly burning cash (and methane) until they start earning! Donks continually points to that as if nobody realises! This article featuring Rolls Royce but encouraging people to invest in these cash burners will take him aback!

Worth a read imho

https://www.ft.com/content/2a646e0c-0e03-480f-9adc-eaefb829091e

1. They have an acquaintance who is interested in this share , and curiosity abounds on how it is performing?

It might be classed as research if these people are considering getting into the ring ome day.

2. Ex-shareholders monitoring if they did the right or wrong thing?

3. Current shareholders looking for reasons to buy or sell ahead of a likely price shift. Due dilgence which should be exercised by us all if we have money invested.

Some will not be interested in other interested parties views and never read posts - they will merely be checkingif there is a new RNS , if , like me , they do not have notifications turned on.

Which group is DONKS in? He is trying to find his marbles or is a keyboard warrior trying to be the centre of attention.

It does not matter to him if he is adored or the opposite! It is a mental disorder of some sort. I suggest, far from being a bully , he has been bullied all his days! And on a keyboard he can fight without being duffed up! He is duffed up , nobody every agrees with him on virtually any subject but he ignores that fact,

I am guilty of feeding his lunacy but I am incapable of letting him discolour TLOU for no good reason.

This project is as close to nailed on as it gets on the AIM market imho. The only danger was going broke with delays in Govt agreements, dewatering and Covid! The directors could have milked the finances into the ground but most took pay cuts for years and that helped to get us to a position where a few poles in Serowe and a couple of substations look certain to start bringing in first earnings next year.

BOTS how on earth can you say there are not sophisticated shareholders on here.

We are all sophisticated in comparison to you!

None of us has access to who is on here - posters are the tip of the iceburg - and the majority do not post.

TG himself used to be informed of what was being said on here. He may have even looked for himself.

Colm often refers to shareholders . Stop speaking for others , you do it all the time,and you cannot know.

Good thinking batman! Just as well Bots and Aus are not on AIM then!

It also explains why TG did not have open offers - he knew we were in danger of foul that AIM ruling.

And that was the one thing I held against TG when I accused him of looking after the Doc and ignoring us.

Should have known Saint Tony would have a reason for his actions.

That first 'special' offer to the Stephen Hemsley type of investor may have stemmed from TB's thinking.

And the only reason we were in risk of fouling the AIM rule were down to the aliens on this board who were casting unfair aspersions upon TG personally and the TLOU directors! That 'special' issue resulted in the price dropping from 5p to 3.5p and lower. It should never have collapsed and we should hav been take the options at 4.4p and been rewarded at that price as TG intended! The whole episode worked against us with Covid pputting the nail in the coffin of our options.

I think we expected 5p to become 8p by the deadline date for the options - a 3.6p gain on each 4.4p share - but the trolls on here got their 2p sp ......

Given the frugal nature of TG , the way I see it , raising funds is a statement of intent and TG always said he'd start slowly and then accelerate progress on expansions. Subsequent to the first dewatering further dewaterings are expected to be relatively quick! #6 has pulled his ripcord and TLOU are going into freefall next year I reckon. Raising extra income next tear will skew the need for further placings .... rose coloured glasses for a rode coloured prohect imho.

When Donkey said he was going away for a year , he probably hoped people would ask him to stay. His tomfoolery is boundless.

I feel discriminated against - I was working out what 4/11 of over half million ASX shares would cost me when I saw that UK domiciles were ineligible. It is over £3k so I'd probably have sold a few to help raise the cash to give to TLOU.

I imagine TLOU are saving money and time by exluding LSE from the placing. And we all see what placings do to the SP m whether it is sensible or not , the sp drops. Will the ASX and BSE prices drop accordingly?

ASX have restored parity with LSE at 32c ( 1.7p)

I am glad we are too far from Serowe for air-born electricity - it only works over very short distances and the wider the gap the more power loss! Sounds state of the art and not doubt Chris Fraser would have adopted it like everything else he planned for SXX! Keeping it simple is the way to go for sure.

Spread on ASX currently 29c to 35c so 28p days may be gone forever.

LSE must move in the same direction soon - cheap as chips on both exchanges.

Poor expression that - chips are a hell of a price from chippies nowadays , but is anything cheap anymore?