Right, so I'm just putting Blackwood Shop back together the best we can.
We've taken down... they're in the middle of still shifting stuff, but this next one is heavy.
We've got a couple of fellas to do this one.
Guys, don't unpack stuff.
I've come in today now and somebody's unpacking stuff.
I mean, really, you can see we're busy.
All right, okay, thank you.
All right, yeah, okay.
All right, they're gonna drop off the thing now.
So I'm trying to put Blackwood back now so that it can go back to shopping.
We've had customers in, so thank you people bearing with us today now.
I think I might take those ones down.
That one and that one too.
Leave the books there.
We'll stay on by when going free on the books.
Leave the books there for now, because we've got book customers coming in, haven't we?
I'll get Chloe and Dan to rip through tomorrow, I think, and have a tidy, because obviously they've lost a couple of their cabinets here.
I've got to put the cabinets now in the new shop and see what room we got now before we take any more down.
Let me put them behind the till.
I'll be looking for them in the morning.
And then I've got to get the baby gate from Riska.
Drop this one off to Riska.
Pick up the baby gate to go on the kitchen in Caerphilly, because that one doesn't fit, if I forget.
He's sold another haunted doll.
Brilliant, he sold one the other day too.
Oh, I've just seen the drawers to that thing.
I just put them on the table.
So I'm gonna try and put back what we can by here now.
You can sell off that bit of wood.
Oh, he needed a bit of wood for something.
I can't remember what.
And then at least you can get in there.
So sorry if I'm being able to get in here with wheelchairs and prams and the rest of it today, but as you know, we are trying to kit out Caerphilly shop to get them up and running so they can just crack on and trade.
He's gonna need to find places for this lot now.
The rest I'm not too worried about, because it's literally these cupboards that could go on racking.
I mean, I could sell them off and get them again, and we've had them all for free, haven't we?
So it's not the end of the world, is it?
Racking, if we come out here, racking, or if we don't get a lease so I can take it down the hill.
That one's too big.
It would need to be sold off or roll it down with three of us, like we did with Riscars.
And these counters are a bit big to go in the next shop, because they take up a lot of room.
But we'll have a look now, we'll see what we can get done in there this week.
But the thing is... hey Luke, hey Maria, you alright?
The thing is, cars and gas can get on with what they're doing, can't they?
Now because they've got all of their shelves down there, so they can crack on, you know?
And then Dan and Chloe up here, Denise and Dave, I do call them, off a royal family, Denise and Dave.
They can crack on with putting this shop back together and doing it what they were doing, wouldn't they?
So, and we are... and it hasn't cost us anything other than transporting it.
Are you Sarah?
Are you Emma?
Are you alright?
It's hot out there today.
Cofelia's nice, because we have the back door open, like, so... I can't believe you and environmental health and she turned up.
For what?
Because we're thinking of leaving the shop?
Oh, I can't believe it.
We've just gone down and thanked some of the shops for being good neighbours with us.
Because they have been good neighbours, you know, everybody's been good.
Well, I've got a word with Peacocks in me about the website.
She's part of the website, see, she is.
We've got to have a good over tomorrow, guys, I think, because we've had so much around.
Moved around, haven't we?
I missed you, Jan.
You've come up to see me and I missed you.
I missed you.
We've taken all of those down, Jan, because they've been up here for a while now.
So, like a fillymums, have a look at them now, haven't they?
Sure they will.
I don't think that lot's been priced on.
It's got a bit mixed up now, see.
If you've got a shop like this, you're not allowed to leave stuff around that hasn't been checked in bags, because you don't know what it is.
This is all stuff that we've learnt as we've started.
I'm just trying to put it back tidy.
I am now really busy shifting our big shelf.
I'm useless, I can't do it.
Mind you, I just say that, I shifted that big lump out of my shop, didn't I?
Big lump I shifted.
She came in, she said to Sammy, Carrie!
Carrie!
She didn't even know what it is, like, she didn't even know what she was looking for, like, do you know what I mean?
Poor Sammy.
Poor Sammy.
And then she made a derogatory comment about another mother saying there was a reason, there was a protected characteristic, right, under the Equality Act, of why she thought that was me.
Horrible.
Horrible, horrible person.
Well, I knew that anyway, because everybody was saying that prior to now, wasn't they?
Everybody said, oh, she's vile, she's horrible, she is.
She's vile.
I don't know if we need this wood.
Oh, wow.
What's that?
What are they up to?
Little monkey!
Little monkey.
So we're trying to get it so that you can walk through here a game of prams and then you can do the hoovering.
Are you Caroline?
Are you Donna?
How are you all doing, guys?
Where are you from, Donna?
Are you Cuffinny?
Or no?
I know you said before, we're not in your area, so where are you from?
Well, don't have to post it on there.
For God's sake, don't post it on there.
You'll have all the blooming hate following you.
They're outside your house, like the paparazzi.
Where is the Ricky Pang is now?
I don't know.
I don't have to go over there.
So, yeah.
Busy, busy, busy, busy, busy, busy.
I think they've broke the necklace because it's got a little thing.
Yeah, that's all.
So if anyone wants to come in and use the existing hangers we've got to belt up some of these clothes, the three for a pound, so mums can see them better.
You're more than welcome to.
It's easier to shop then.
And then I think now that we've...
we might possibly take a couple more shelves and furniture down there to kit it out.
Because I need cows and gals and all the volunteers down in Caerphilly to get it up and running, you see.
And they can't do that until they've got everything, can they?
Down there that they need.
So, it's looking good.
Down there.
I believe if there was any truth in what they were saying about you, you would have been long gone.
They have been giving up mailing me.
Oh, they've already messaged you, have they?
Oh, Ibervale.
Oh, I know Ibervale wants us.
I know.
I did look up there.
There was a baby shop.
She was selling the...
she was selling the lease in the baby shop for ten grand.
So, I thought, well, can I inject some of my money, my savings, into the baby stuff?
But she wanted like fifty-six pound for one baby dress.
Right?
And our mothers haven't got it.
They haven't got fifty-six pounds to do food shopping.
So, I mean, it wouldn't have been fifty-six pound to me because I would have spent ten thousand on the stock.
I don't know if you can remember it there.
She had a baby shop and a vape shop.
And I thought, look, I know you've got to keep your business going, like, but you don't really want to be having a vape shop and a baby shop, you know.
Anyway, I don't know if she's still there.
And good luck to her if she is.
But yes, I was going to have that, but her stock was overpriced.
Like, if she'd have said two or three thousand for the stock, then that would have been realistic.
That would have been more realistic than ten thousand.
So we wouldn't have actually made that ten thousand back.
I think if we just sold them at our prices, we'd have been at a loss, wouldn't we?
So, you know, it wasn't worth doing.
And the shop was very small and had a lot of damp in the back room.
Trouble is when you run a business that involves any textiles, like that.
That's an old sign.
I haven't seen that one for years.
If you can't have any mould, you can't put anything like that in a room with this mould, because it all gets wrecked, doesn't it?
So...
It was easier to let Daniel ransack what he wanted down Cabilly than what he wanted to involve myself with it and let him chuck whatever he didn't want.
Me and my friend went looking for... Tuscany shop?
Risca, is that what you mean?
Risca, we have been open.
Did you go past where the Rainbow Gate is?
Because that's part of our shop part, the Rainbow Gate.
That's where we are.
Always check in, guys.
I had a mother the other week went somewhere and we weren't open.
Always check in with us.
On the page, what's open?
Because I try and write it every morning so that you know, like, I'm aiming to be back down Cabilly now for our past two.
Today.
And then...
That's sublime about me.
Oh, we've got a casualty.
Free to a good home.
Anyone sticking, guys?
Lovely.
I think I'm going to have a mess.
Free spray, always freezing themselves.
Like, oh, I need to go and do a shift with James Babybank.
Spray me with free spray.
Yes, we haven't got many of the wanted dolls left.
Might try them down Cabilly now.
Or maybe Risca.
Yeah, Risca is where the Rainbow Gate is.
All creatures great and small is down the bottom by the bus stop.
You've got to cross the little road.
Right?
Pontypool soon, yeah.
Or you've got to be in the Pontypool a while.
Because it's slow.
And we've just reopened our pound shop in Pontypool.
So upstairs everything's a pound or three for two or fill a bag for a fiver.
Because that's all our old stock that comes into Pontypool or everything that's not really worth a pound.
If we look at the clothes I mean our clothes are worth more than a pound anyway.
Because we only ring-fenced the Porsche and the designer ones and the collectible ones.
Like that M&M top is collectible but the rest we sell off, don't we?
So you'll get loads there.
But upstairs is things like when you get stretchy tops and things on Primark and they lose the stretch.
You know, that type of top.
Or maybe leggings or if something's got a jumper or something with a bit of a bauble on it we'll put it up there.
I've got to put you down in a minute.
I'm trying to get a table for my Pepsi Max.
Oh, what's going on here?
I don't know.
I don't know.
Yeah, so environmental asks are just like whatever, whatever.
I've said all you need and all of this down to the silly shop we've had a report.
So I know where it is because he said yesterday I'll have to move environmental out.
What for?
What for your melon?
You don't need to move environmental out.
Just to be awkward some people, and it doesn't matter anyway because we'll have to register down there anyway as a free food bag.
So they've got to come out.
We're used to them coming in, you know.
We work with them.
Same with the fire people.
We work with them.
If they come in and say, oh, I don't like that bag today.
I'll say, alright, stop what you're doing everybody.
We're going to need to shift these couple of bags from here because they're not happy with it.
Or if they say...
I mean the fire one that came in with us last time, not the new one.
He said, you know, I can't believe how much we did in the time between he went and came back, you know.
It's all 75% off.
We're moving to the high street and we've also got a shop in Caerphilly.
So it's easier for us to sort of sell it off than carry it.
We'll have to get customers to carry it.
We'll say, take a box on the hill.
I haven't signed a lease yet.
I'm waiting for them to come back to me.
Incidentally, the rent has been reduced on this shop.
But it wouldn't matter if they said, you can have it for a pound a month.
I've lost any confidence in them now.
After the way that they've messaged me and blackmailed me and tried to make me feel guilty about not progressing and staying here.
If I could pick this shop up and move it on the high street, I would.
But I wouldn't take the landlord with me.
It's been nice up here and it was our first, you know, high street.
Well, we had Riska, but Riska was very, very well protected security wise.
And we've got a nice neighbour down there that's got very good CCTV on top of our CCTV around the back everywhere.
And he's on it like a whippet.
God bless Rob.
He's a good one.
But here, it was a good safety net because we had the, you know, we had a lot of problems with the pedo at the time, didn't we?
We came up here and we were behind the shutters.
And we had the security guard here on site, you know, and Rambo is good as gold, you know.
He takes all our rubbish and sorts it all out for us.
Good as gold.
And it was a good security net, a good security blanket for us.
You know, but I'm ready now.
Big girl pants on, high street.
Woo!
We can do it.
We can do it, guys.
You know we're going to manifest it.
Keep manifesting it, guys.
Decent rent.
Big shop.
See, the one that I really want has got a lot of shelves.
That's why I'm taking my shelves on the other shop.
So I bet now, the other one that I don't really want, but I'll take if they give me a good rent.
I haven't got shelves.
I won't have any shelves in there.
But I'm hoping we want to manifest the one with the shelves.
There's the Marilyn clock.
Leanne, I don't know if you're online.
She bought it in because we didn't have a clock in here.
But volunteers, still turn up at this shop if you want to volunteer.
Just still turn up because we're still trading.
You know, I haven't ended my lease yet.
I've put nothing in writing other than told them in November, December that I was looking for another shop.
So I don't know what I've got to give.
I haven't really looked, but I'm sure because they'll be keen.
They've already expressed an interest to turn it into three shops.
Barber shop, barber shop, barber shop.
I expect.
I don't know.
I expect.
So,
they might not.
They might let you rent it for the same that they've offered it to me too, but I'm off-ski.
I'm off-ski.
I won't be threatened with stuff and the rest of it, so I'm never going to do it.
And I'm itching.
I'm so pleased with Caerphilly shop.
I really am.
Like, it's not where I want it.
It's not on the street I want it.
It's not the size I want it.
It's the rent I want.
But I'm just so pleased with it.
I just, honestly, I feel like I could just retire.
Retire and sit in the shop all day, honestly.
I really do.
I'm just so happy.
And I mean, that landlord contacted us and dropped the rent twice for us to get in there.
And made it very easy for us to get in there.
We got a good landlord in Risca.
And I mean, you know, we contacted him.
He wasn't even up for rent.
And I said, we'll take it as it is.
Happy enough.
Don't have any trouble.
And as soon as I got a problem, bring him and he'd bring me straight back.
And it's minus stuff like most of the code for the alarm, because I can't remember it.
Oh, I've done this.
I'll probably fix it.
And then when we applied for the donation centre, I rang Ross and I rang him.
And I said, well, I won one of them.
I said, but I think it opened my price range.
I said, because that's such a good place for me to be as a donation centre, with the Sainsbury's ramp.
So he was like, well, the middle one you want.
Go and have a look, the door's open.
Didn't even come with us, you know.
He just sent us over there.
He said, go on in there.
Go and have a look at the units.
These are the prices.
So I went in and I had a look.
I said, it's too small for us.
I said, it's high and I would prefer wide.
But high is cheaper than wider, right?
Because wider is floor space.
You're talking air space, right?
So you need the racking to go with it.
And we weren't in a financial position to pick up the racking then, were we?
Now we've got the racking.
But he rang me back.
He rang me back and he said, I think you would be the best tenant in there.
And I said, yeah, I think I'd be a good tenant.
True, thank you very much.
However, I would like my forecourt in front of my unit empty, so that when people come down the ramp from Sainsbury's, I'm the first thing they see.
Not a problem.
Send the contract over to them.
And then Pontypool landlords lowered the rents.
They've all lowered the rents.
I've got one landlord, I think one landlord's from Merthyr, right?
I can't remember.
And then the other landlord is from London.
Totally unconnected.
They've worked together as a team for us to go have the two shops and for them to be authorised by the authorities for us to use the two shops to knock through.
Right?
And they have since teamed up to work on other shops that are next to each other so that they can work together in partnership to get the best deals that they can get to do up the shops.
So, we haven't got a problem anywhere else, have we?
We had a problem with Barbara Bargard because they wouldn't stop the pedo bothering us.
But it was too small for us anyway.
We've come to the conclusion that Arrods would be too small for us.
We'd fill it, wouldn't we?
So...
But I'm confident now that this would fill the next shop on the high street and then we wouldn't have to... we've only got to move it down there.
This one is done then.
It's all 75% off.
Alright, yeah, that'll be 75% off.
I've got one over there as well.
Alright, yeah, hang on, I'll have a look now for you.
Alright, see you in a bit, guys.
