Hey guys, I'm on my way to Cosmic Caerphilly.
Me and Casey will be in Caerphilly today.
We've probably been in late because we've got a lot of fitting in to do.
Well, I couldn't say late but I don't know because I haven't been very well.
I'm back in hospital next week or the week after.
I can't remember.
I've got to go back in anyway.
They want me straight back in.
So, it might be an overnighter.
Because they've got to empty this bowel to see what's in it.
And it isn't empty on its own.
So, it's not good.
Not looking good.
But there we are.
We haven't got time for an ischemic bowel.
We need to get this show on the road.
Right.
So, Chloe and Clowden are down Riscaroo.
They're 50% off.
We're going to be 50% off up here.
Pontypool is 90% off.
We're not closing Pontypool because people are going Oh, my God.
You're closing Pontypool.
No, we're not.
Okay.
Pontypool is mega, mega full.
Right.
And I can't find the staff.
I literally can't see the staff for the stock.
So, we're doing 90% off.
Like I said, the more...
The better we do, the better you do.
Okay.
When we do good, you do good.
We're doing good.
You know, we've just offloaded Blackwood.
So, we're saving £1,000 a month.
Yes, we've taken on Caerphilly.
But we're saving £1,000 a month now on the shop.
Plus, I freed up two members of staff that just sat there all day.
So, we got one down Riscaroo covering today.
And then Dan's still at Blackwood because he's still got things like our rails.
He left the step ladder up there and some other bits.
And any work that he's done to get them through the health and safety, he's got to undo.
Because they don't deserve to have our work off the volunteers for free, do they?
To get their building through whatever needs to get through.
Like I said, next time...
The only reason I cleared Blackwood shop and didn't just walk away from it, right, is because I knew most of our expensive stuff was up there.
That's the only reason I cleared it.
I won't be clearing another one.
If I get another dickhead landlord, right, I mean...
Window tax?
Really?
Right?
Fuck off.
Right, I don't know where...
I don't know where I give off Shrinking Violet, where people think I'm a pushover.
Where do I, you know, give off that I don't eat men for breakfast?
Window tax.
That was really the last straw I was.
Anyway...
Anyway, good luck if you're going up there because you've got to pay window tax now.
I think it'd be interesting to see what happens with our shop.
I think it'll either sit there forever and a day with nobody in it.
Unless he reduces the rent right down.
And, I mean, I wouldn't give him a thousand pound a month for it, you know, with a footfall up there.
Or,
it'll be barbershop, barbershop, barbershop, and that's why he's been awkward.
They've got hundreds of other shops.
They've got shops everywhere.
Cofilly, Newport, so, you know, it was nothing to do with their mortgage.
I was just to try and keep us there.
Oh, and one of the last, very, very last straws is when he'd said...
Well, we'd already started moving out.
When he said to the security guard to try and talk some sense in me to stay.
And then the security guard threatened me with ringing environmental health.
I was like, go and ring environmental health.
What is she going to do?
Absolutely unbelievable.
I do not suffer foolish men well.
Do not apply if you are a foolish man.
Because I will eat you for breakfast, literally.
So, yeah, onwards and upwards now, guys.
We are still actively looking for a shop on Blackwood High Street.
If you've got a shop on Blackwood High Street, wake up, get a decent rent package.
I can give you...
Well, we said this last night, right?
We're looking at five to ten years in a shop, right?
I don't want to be moving if I've got a shop for five to ten years, right?
All the shops I've got now, I'm happy with.
Right?
I really, really am happy with those shops.
I wasn't happy with Blackwood as soon as I went in there, because I knew that they'd...
...mess me around.
I knew that they'd tried to rip me off when I got in there.
And then they tried adding up the taxes.
Then they wanted to add another £600 on a month.
I was like, well, I didn't sign for that.
Like, I was a pushover and was just going to pay it, right?
Well, what do you got to pay this now?
Well, I ain't got to pay nothing, right?
Because this is what I've signed for.
This is the figures I've signed for.
And that's the figures that I'm going to pay, if you're lucky, if I feel like it, right?
So, if you don't annoy me, I'll pay it.
Simple as.
But I really don't know where I give off shrinking by that.
And that I don't eat men for breakfast.
Like I said, we've got a lovely bunch of landlords right now.
I'm really happy with them.
The Shopping Café just came out of nowhere.
It was like a sunlight beam coming through the clouds.
It was...
You know, coming through.
I was like, what on earth is this falling in my life?
So, I'm so happy.
Yesterday, I worked at a snail's pace.
And...
I just bumbled around that back garden all day and absolutely loved it.
I really did.
And I'm so excited.
They've started doing the market bit.
But yes, it's going to be a couple of years.
But that drums an interest because everybody comes up and down the road, don't they?
It feels right.
I've gone in there.
It feels right.
You know.
Like Pontypool.
I went over for a market stall.
I come back out of the shop.
Yeah, it felt right.
Them landlords that I got over there, they feel right.
You know, they feel right for us.
Riscaroo feels right for us.
Yeah, you know.
It just feels right.
Like the donation centre.
It just felt right.
It was the wrong size.
Right place, wrong size.
But it just felt right.
You know.
And we got landlords that are really big names as well.
Big names in the landlord industry.
And in the, you know, the entrepreneur and business market.
We got big named landlords.
And maybe that's why.
Maybe that's why.
Because they are professional landlords.
You know, so.
There we are.
I've got another car for them.
Just waiting.
I can't go in there and leave it there.
I know.
I had to come out yesterday when Chloe was selling over a pound.
She was doing really well.
And I was like.
I had to come out.
I was like.
You know.
Just go now.
Concentrate on the next shop.
Like I said.
We will be back.
But they need to lower their prices.
So unless there's a sugar daddy that wants to buy Wilkinson's for me.
I would settle for a smaller shop.
We don't have to buy Wilkinson's.
You can.
But yeah.
I just said a jam now.
Because jam's up there.
I just said now.
Sunday.
I never felt so happy in my life that we were leaving.
Because I've had to deal with all of these emails and everything else off this landlord and all this.
You know.
Trying to push it on to us that.
You know.
We were causing him massive financial problems if we were leaving.
That ain't my problem.
That's not my problem.
My problem is the baby bank and raising funds for mothers.
And that's my.
Soul goal.
But here we are.
Here we are.
So yeah.
We're not shutting Fonty Pool.
I just can't find the staff.