Right, so morning guys.
We're at Pontypool.
We've got some painting to finish.
We've got to do this bit as well.
Paint that.
But we've decided to turn Pontypool Front Shop into a boutique.
Because our boutique goes so well in Risca.
And this was still looking so nice we thought, look, let's do a boutique.
So, as well as the charity shop.
So we've got a two pound rail.
So everything on there is two pound.
Then we've got usually about five to six.
The wool is.
Then this is the ten pound rail.
We've got a five pound rail.
And then twenty pound and up.
Or it might be like ten.
It might be a few tens on here.
Is it all tens?
No, that's twenties and twenty-fives.
Twenties and twenty-fives on there.
So all of this is our designer clothes, vintage clothes.
Unusual items that people have brought in for us to recycle.
Look at them in their farm.
So, but we've still got.
So exactly like we do it down Risca.
We've got the charity shop bit and the second bit for the boutique.
So you know our sizes.
And our prices, like how we do it.
Getting a lot of school uniform in this one as well.
We've got beautiful donations.
And everybody has been lovely in Pontypool.
All our customers, all the residents have been amazing down here.
Fair play.
So...
This is full.
I would say our charity part up here is full now.
Because we've got to leave room for prams.
You're getting a lot of prams in.
So we literally are taking stuff downstairs now.
So we've got to get this off today.
Because I don't like this for fire safety.
If we're opening up downstairs, that needs to come off.
Put up the extra tickets.
We've done the rails.
Need to paint.
Because Chris had a good wash down there.
But she couldn't get those scuffs off.
So yeah, but we've got all this to go up.
Plus some donations in.
Plus there's donations downstairs.
So I would say now, I've got to get this painted in here.
I can't do much with this wall because it's a really bad wall.
But we can paint from like the fire escape across I think.
To there.
I'm not going to get... it'll have to go there.
I can't get up there.
I have to like lean over with something really long.
To get all the bits off the window.
So I'll paint this bit.
Put the posters up because they look nice.
And then downstairs obviously we'll paint all this woodwork.
Well not so much woodwork because I can't stand glossing.
But all our semester.
And we'll paint all that as much as we can.
To get it looking nice for people.
If anybody's good at drawing characters.
You're more than welcome to come in and give us a hand.
But yeah, we're really full now.
And donations are coming in thick and fast here.
And it's fantastic.
Pontypool has really welcomed us in.
We've been to Arbiter Lady today.
I think it'll work in Arbiter Lady.
It's a very small shop.
But it's ready to go.
So there's absolutely no working in the shop that I've been to visit today.
It's literally take our rails in, turn up.
So I need a volunteer manager.
And I need volunteers then that can help out.
It's a small shop.
So we would probably say three volunteers.
Manager and two volunteers a day maximum there.
But you can sort it out.
Like this shop is big.
So people can go downstairs.
People can come up here.
People can go in the front.
So, you know, we could probably have about six, seven.
Including the manager in here.
So because it's quite a nice big shop.
But what you don't want to do is overload it, you know.
So this this shop still come and go as you please.
Arbor Bargard.
We need we've got a manager going up there today to have a look.
But you're more than welcome to pop up Arbor Bargard.
And you know what it's like in the summer.
We use all our bottom car parkers.
That is my area which I rent.
So we use all of that.
So that is up as well.
So that is also available if anybody wanted to manage that.
Because the other manager I spoke to was interested in Abba's Lady as well.
It's a lot easier if somebody from Abba's Lady runs Abba's Lady.
But just let me know what you want to do.
We're going to go have some food now.
And then I'm going to try and do some painting.
Get it, get it.
Oh, if we can get that room finished.
It's taking forever.
If we can get that room finished today.
And then we might do some.
Might do yellow and green in here.
Yellow, green and blue in this one.
Because it's got the blue carpet.
And then downstairs is a bit funkier, isn't it?
So yeah, first job will be today now.
Let's get that off.
And then if any of our customers need the loo.
We're going downstairs.
But you can go upstairs.
Sorry if you can't manage the stairs.
The stairs are steep.
But they're alright.
It's like a normal shop.
So if you were going into a normal shop of stairs.
It would be like that.
So yeah, it's going to be getting.
I can't get over there to paint.
But I'm going to risk my life, aren't I?
Probably will.
Probably will.
I'll film it so you can see it.
