Morning, guys. Happy birthday to me. Don't forget it's 75% off in the shops. There's not much excluded, I don't think. Free five pound toy or value of up to five pound toy book, DVDs for children.

Child has to be present. Otherwise, we'll have the boy men in and the resellers begging for Pokemon. I got a car full of gear, as you can see. I need volunteers in every shop. Shop.

Get in there. Show us here. Show us what you've got. How have I spent my birthday so far? Well, I've had to do a poop test.

I've had to do a a blood test, full blood test, everything, and I'm checking for Crohn's and celiac. So I really like my toast, so that's not gonna go down well. How do you feel when you eat bread? I do feel a bit I don't know. I know I'm eating the bread.

Like, do you know what I mean? I know it's in my stomach. I don't know. But I don't feel like I'm having a reaction to it. I don't know.

Anyway, probably too much information. I've had a bunch of flowers so far off my auntie Gail and uncle Alan. And I've had well, I've had nothing off Daniel because he woke up and went, oh, it's today, is it? He's usually like that. It's today, is it?

Crept upon me. So, yes, I gotta go now and pick up a card. I'll have to wear my auntie because she can't get out. And then I shall be down Risca Roo. Risca Roo is open today.

Sorry we could do with some volunteers here to help her. We've got a massive influx over there again of donations. Pontypool Phase Three. We've had the go ahead of a landlord and they have negotiated Ponte Poole, to be in Ponte Poole. It's just, you know, spending a lot of money in Pontypool, to be in Pontypool.

But it is a good opportunity to have. That's the new problem. I'd rather spend the money elsewhere and be in a different pocket. I'm going to have photographs of the one in Tradega sent to me today. So we might be up there now by the by this afternoon.

You know what we like. Itching to go somewhere else. Itching to open another shop. CaPhilly oh, another landlord from Caerphilly contacted me. He said, you're still interested in my shop?

I was like, well, narrow it down which shop. We're gonna look at shops all the time. So, yeah. We seem to be in demand. That's two shops in less than twenty four hours we've been offered.

One I didn't even really ask for. It is a shop compared to the other thing that I was looking at. So I think they're about the bit same size. So if you can come down in price like I said, we're not going anywhere. We've been here five years now trading.

We ain't going anywhere. And in the next the next one to two years, twenty four months, it's really gonna sort the men from the boys this, credit crisis is big time. And I I always used to laugh and joke, and I used to say it's just gonna be us on the high street in the pound shop. But I don't even think the pound shop's doing that well since nothing's a pound in there anymore, you know. But what can you say in there?

You've gotta pay the minimum wage, you know, paying people to, you know, spend money. You're taking taxes off and you're paying electric, gas, you know, and all the rest of it, hyped up charges. And then, you know, they gotta pay extra insurance, and they don't get domestic rates, don't forget. And they got lights everywhere in these big shops. I I take bulbs out of my lights because I'm like, I don't need them all on, you know.

Is there anything? Happy birthday to me. Sue in the shops.