Right, so I'll just do a quick overview of the food bank.
It's still looking nice, a few bits gone.
Not a lot though.
That's the thing, see.
You do get a freeloaders, but we bin the freeloaders off straight away, right.
Because you can't access it unless you're a customer or a donator, which means you're helping another mother somewhere down the line, yeah.
Oh, it's a lady, look.
Taking pictures of the dolls.
See which ones they like.
Fab.
I think we've raised 40.
I don't think it's old anymore.
40 it is.
It's all gone in the summer, but we'll get it out and then do a food shop, baby food shop.
So, but like, it's good because people only ask if they need it.
Why are they open?
You know, which is good.
They don't take a mick, is it?
They don't take the mick out of it.
Got to check that electrical appliance down there.
I've had some people buy some nice stuff today.
Don't take the prices off things.
If you take the prices off things, I'm getting too old to break people's fingers, so I've just charged you double.
I'm not dull.
I know exactly what you're doing.
Every single thing in this shop is priced and the other shops.
So, when the price disappears off it, we know you've taken it off.
I mean, there are some cases where actually you don't take it off, other people do.
But we know our genuine customers from the ones who just take off the prices.
I've had a couple of weirdos around the jewellery stand.
You're on CCTV and we've got alarms, okay?
And when you walk out of the shop, you'll also be on CCTV out there.
So, what looks like it's happening at Blackwood shop now is they're now taking off the packaging because we've got the alarm gates up.
Because they think the packaging is tagged.
Well, we're going to start tagging the items with sticky tags, not just hard tags, okay?
Because the fact that people are still doing that, even though we've got the tagging system up, you know.
Oh, I've been left all week guys.
Don't want to hang off.
A funny reaction to our cottage.
I haven't been right since.
And my knee has been bad.
Oh, it's been awful.
I've got to have a lift back to the car tonight because I can't get up there.
Lady interesting the designer bags in the window.
You can tell I've got an infection or even though when they tested my urine down the glens, I didn't have an infection down there.
But I'm mixing up all my words.
That was a good sign, that is, if somebody got an infection.
That's nice, isn't it, Brandy?
That's got six on it.
We'll probably let it go through for five.
DVDs are going down well.
I think, where else we go?
Got a lady coming back from the Monopoly.
People cards are going out quite well, still going quite well.
We've only got like three boxes there and then I think it's two boxes of Valentine's.
So, here we go.
Just having a walk around so you can see, you know, I think you saw the bouncer or something over there.
Somebody's pulled this out.
See, we check them all.
Don't put nothing out without checking it.
Nothing worse to say than going home and you've bought something, genuinely bought something and then it's not complete.
So, we check it all guys, alright?
What's this?
Somebody's pulled one of these out by the look of it.
It's fine, you can open stuff to look at it, but it's when you take the prices off.
We know what you're doing, we're not dull, we've got CCTV.
I'm sat there watching you as you're walking around the shop.
Think I'm oblivious.
And I'm watching you like as you're walking around.
Oh, is that a mark?
Oh no, I thought that thing was marked there, but I think it's the pattern.
What's going on, look, is it?
I'm pretty sure that's the pattern.
Yes, I thought it had a mark on it then, but I don't know where it's the pattern.
I've got a few of these in.
Prices have been pulled off that as well, by the look of it, look.
We'll have to watch you when you come back in.
I've got you on CCTV.
We'll watch you next time you come in, because you seem to have pulled prices off quite a bit of stuff, haven't you?
And then we'll get some CCTV footage and I'll pass it on to the police.
Until you're out.
There's one of them.
My leg is bad, guys.
Honestly, I could cry with it.
I really could cry with it.
It's not as bad as it was before the steroid injection, so I think they are wearing off.
Where's this glue been taken from now, look?
I've kind of whittled one out.
I worked in retail a long time and I was also a profit protection advisor for stores like Tesco's, B&Q.
Next.
Do you want to think where else I've been?
Dorothy Perkins, Primark.
I was for them not to lose their profits going through their skips out in their wheelhouses, trap stock behind stuff that people can't get to.
Things that could devalue like denting tins, spillages, stash breakages.
That was my job for a very long time.
There's a lot less in the cupboards, I've got to be honest.
You can move in those cupboards before.
Get this new shop.
We might get a van.
Go down the donation centre, fill it full of stuff because there's a load of stuff that's already priced and ready to go.
So we could bring it up, leave it in the new shop, crack the new shop open and then go back down the donation centre then once it's opened the shop, be done and dusted within a week at least.
Easy.
And then we could come up and see what we could fit in here before Christmas.
We can, there is room in them.
See what ornaments we've got and stuff.
It's going to break so let's get it up here.
Boop, boop, boop, boop.
Lots of little ornaments gone today guys.
Add some more bits in so I just pressed them up a bit quick they won't last, they won't be there long.
I've got this but it's over a Pontypool.
I keep forgetting to pick it up.
I think Sammy attached it to the shoe rail so we wouldn't lose it.
We've gone over the road.
So...
Yeah, so we've still got time for fundraising we just haven't had a chance to do anything have we?
That's what I was going to do a live for was I need people now that will go out to craft fairs sit in the craft fairs, take things like the wool and the jewellery but talk about us to people in the craft fairs and everywhere else and discuss what we do.
It's not so much about fundraising, it's about discussing what we do.
I haven't got the time to do it myself.
Looking for volunteers I am to go out and discuss what we're about.
We'll tell you what to say, we'll give you all the stuff to give out and the rest of it.
This looks like a good job, that'll come in.
We'll try.
Again, a lot of companies offering to send stuff now that's good in there.
Like I just said, don't listen to the haters online all of them are broke because I'm giving away free what they're selling if you look.
They're all two faced and they're still waiting on peacocks to get back to us about our financial competition.
I wonder what they'll offer what do you think guys, to settle out of court?
I don't know.
And then I'm waiting on Santander as well because we had issues with Santander staffing Blackwood coming up screaming at me saying I was in their car park I did say it wasn't my car and then the security guard went over because he came over to see where the fuss was and this was a while back but I don't miss a trick and then the security guard went over and said that's not your car and then she sat across the driveway of the car park in her car the manager refusing to let me out But obviously it wasn't my car,
so I walked past, tapped the window and said, you can't park there, it's illegal to block somebody's entry off the public highway onto the road.
We know that because of the girl that used to live over there, at works over there, that's been bitching about us.
We had to put a drive in because of her.
Hello brother.
Oh, try lovely, yeah.
Pop in whenever in there, say hello.
Try.
Yes, sorry.
Yeah, no going here, pop in whenever, just to say, are you hungry or buy something?
Not compulsory.
And boyfriend was an issue with a cross out drive.
So I know you can't stop anybody parking across your drive, preventing you to get access onto your drive, that isn't illegal.
But if you stop someone gaining access to the public highway, coming out like this onto the public highway, that is illegal.
So anyway, I tapped a window.
I said, you know it's illegal to prevent anybody accessing the public highway.
And she was like, I ain't going to park here until you get a towed on Monday.
So we'll have a nice night, because I'm off now, because that's my car over there.
Silly cows.
Silly cows.
Childish like, it really is.
I never understand why people take their dogs shopping.
Because more shops don't let their dogs in.
I never understand that a bit.
I mean, I can understand taking them for a walk, but then if you come into Blackwood High Street, you know it's full of shops.
So why would you do it in there?
I don't know that.
I don't know why people do that.
There we are.
See, he's desperate to get in there.
Gives him anxiety as well, see, sometimes, doesn't it?
Yeah, so we're waiting on two shops now then.
Two major high street sort of brands then to cough up financial compensation for the inappropriate behaviour.
And that hasn't cost me a penny because it's covered by my business insurance.
Here we are, aren't we?
Happy to accept Settler to court.
Well, it depends what they offer, doesn't it?
Offer £20 Peacocks vouchers, not much, is it?
For slandering us in the community to multiple customers.
Or bothering me.
Coming up and bothering me about my car being parked in their driveway when I wasn't even there when I was trying to sort the Christmas cards out.
I don't have time for it.
Busy girl.
But yeah, that's what I need now, guys.
I need someone to go out to craft fairs and Christmas markets and things.
We book the stand and the store.
And then we'll meet you there or whatever, give or do the night before.
You set it up with the craft items, the wool or the jewellery.
It's not about selling the stuff.
That's just to cover the pitch price if we get a chance.
You'll have a box, a thumb-up barcode there for them to pay or to do the thing, you know, to donate.
We need you to tell them about us.
It doesn't matter if they buy stuff or if they don't donate.
We need you to tell them about us and what we do and what we're all about, you know, which we can give you cards to read off anyway and have a chat with you before.
But that's what we need now.
Somebody to sit at the Christmas market and have a chat with customers and build our repose within the community.
