Oh, so evening guys.
I'm still here.
I'm just pouring down now.
We've had a few people in today.
Me and my little helper, my previous volunteer, that was with us when we were down here first in BigaRisca, has worked well today.
He helped me get a load of stuff in from the car.
We've put it out the back, ready for pricing.
I'm just going to need a wash and pricing because I've come back with some more from Bristol.
I know we've been pricing the books and these are the ones we had from Bridge End.
Remember from Stephen and his partner, his wife?
I left some here one night and then to come back to price at some stage when I had free time.
I've got to have something to do.
I can't sit here all day.
I've got to be busy.
So I left them here as a job to do.
I've got a couple of boxes of bric-a-brac to sort now, but we're quite full.
But a lady came in and bought loads earlier.
So we were like, oh, put them in, put them in.
We've had donations in today.
Oh, they just had fish and chips.
So, yeah, we've been busy.
Blackwood had a few people in.
Pontypool had a few people in.
Don't forget, it's a free £5 spend for the children.
I've done about three or four, I think, since we've said it.
We've got tons of toys so we can do it easily.
We have tons of everything.
So I believe the haters are on another site now under an anonymous name, spouting that I'm not a charity.
This is like Groundhog Day, isn't it, guys?
You don't have to be a registered charity to be charitable.
I know everybody else has gone on there and told them that.
But this girl, this absolute stalker of a girl and all her mates and then all the other ones that they all connected because she used to volunteer for the ones down here that sell her food and the rest of it.
She has got it in her head.
That we are not allowed to serve the public.
We have been serving the public since 2020.
We serve the public in the pandemic during lockdown.
If any time I was going to get shut down, it would have been in lockdown.
For goodness sake, do you think we'd have all these shops and a donation centre and everything else that's going on if we were doing anything fraudulently?
If I was being fraudulent, I'd have been arrested by now and trading standards would have shut down the shops.
For goodness sake.
Absolute goodness sake.
We're just going to start slapping out letters, I think, from my solicitor to say, well, you need to pay them X amount now because you're in breach of their trademark and you've damaged their brand, you know, maybe £100,000 and maybe they'll shut them up,
wouldn't they?
Because they didn't breach a trademark.
Absolutely unreal, some of them are.
She's going on and on and on again.
I mean, we're getting paid for it.
We're getting paid for it.
But...
They're obsessed.
They're absolutely obsessed.
There's other members of the public on there telling them, well, you're wrong.
You've got it wrong.
She can operate as a food bank, a fundraising, a food bank, fundraising shop and a baby bank.
And they're still on the go.
She can't do it.
She's not a registered charity.
Oh my god, shut up.
These people.
They're obsessed.
Anyway, I've got some cookies and I'm going to carry on.
My best pen has run out.
My best pen.
I buy them in boxes at 12 and I go through some early and there's some run out.
And it's the easiest one to use because it flows, makes my writing look better.
So, I don't know where to go and forget it because I haven't got the best pen.
I'll carry on.
I don't know what to do.
What time is it now?
About seven now, is there?
Road to be clear and out of dry bones here, so I might go home now and have evening with the cats.
I'm packed up, ready to go.
It's just these are not done because...
Everyone, I've got the best pen.
It's gone dry.
I think I've got three more left in my box at 12 and I'll have to order some more.
Are you sure she will copy?
What's gone?
Hopefully, we've got a new start this Thursday.
Pontypool is open tomorrow on Blackwood.
But risk a rule, we'll be shut tomorrow because we're still low staff.
Okay.
We're still low on staff, so it's going to be shut tomorrow.
It's been a nice day again, huh?
Don't you?
I've got my label on straighteners.
They'll annoy me forever.
I don't look as nice without the best pen.
I don't look as good without my best pen.
What's the people about tonight?
I don't know.
What's on next door?
I think it's a wellness centre or something.
People back and forth.
2001, this book.
I don't look as good, by all.
Looks better with a sharpie.
Looks more precise.
What's happened to the book?
Did a pulp come out?
Previous one?
Oh yeah, quite a bit today.
We were going through the books today.
We had quite a lot of memorabilia coming out of the books.
We had some books in here which were signed copies.
Some were for first editions and other editions.
And we had a rare copy.
And we had...
Is there all from the bridge end?
How scary is this, guys?
We had...
About three or four from the 1800s.
Which will be a couple of hundred pound they were.
Very fragile ones.
We also had...
Oh, I dropped it.
Very fragile.
1960s colouring book that I dropped.
So...
Stop me now, see my pen run out.
I've got some lovely ones.
Latin translation, where's that from?
If you're not into books, you're never going to be into books.
But like, this is antique, you know.
I don't see anything.
It was one and six when it was first published, anyway.
Oh, you are.
1902.
A lovely book.
French Grammarlock.
What's this one?
This is old.
Or is it not?
Maybe not, because that's in colour, isn't it?
By Henry Wood.
He's got a picture in it, so it's not as old as it looks.
I don't know.
I don't see.
But we've got some lovely ones, please.
We've Scott to the Pole.
Oh, the South... the North Pole.
I think it's that.
Oh, look, it's got newspaper clippings in it and all.
Oh, how lovely book.
Reprinted in 1942.
Still antique.
Some absolutely lovely books, fair play.
I don't know where this bag came from.
I found it on top of a cupboard.
And they said, leave for Jayne.
Am I right in?
I was like, well, why didn't they just do it when it was there?
I don't know.
I don't know.
Right, so risk of rule clause tomorrow.
Pontypool and Black would open.
75% discount on most of the items.
And a free £5 spend for the children.
Because it's my birthday week.
So we'll treat you all, is there?
I'll try and go round here, because I've still got half a glass of pop, so I don't want to waste it.
I can't believe my pen gave up on me.
I'll go round and show you all the lovely stuff we've got here.
We've got a lovely raffle here.
I keep forgetting to tell everybody about it.
Look at that.
Three for poundies, I mean.
Well, apparently, they have a baby bank.
Just trying to rip us off down the bottom there.
Just copying our ideas.
It's non-existent.
It's not easy to run a baby bank.
We make it look easy.
Oh, that's nice.
Look at that one.
Oh, they should get a star.
I've just pulled down.
That's the right mess now.
That's a nice one, isn't it?
Found a load of these, we did.
Going slowly.
I can't believe those glasses are still here.
They're lovely.
Oh, we've seen that shoe, haven't we, somewhere?
Got that shoe.
It might be in my house.
Oh, they're pretty, aren't they?
Clicks in there.
This is where Dawn will do her books.
She'll only have the one bookshelf, don't you?
But that's where she'll do the books.
Clothes have gone really well today.
Most people have had a look at those.
Ah, that's cute.
Three for a pound, this section.
These are the ones that we call boutiques.
So these would be a bit more.
So it would be like two pounds.
Or fifty.
Not much more.
We've got one pair of pants down here.
I put something in here earlier.
What did I put in there?
I can't remember.
I put something in there.
That's a nice little ornament.
I love this.
Cabbage bowl.
Right, guys, I think I'm going to call it a night because...
No point in the world.
