Oh, sorry, guys.

I've been busy today.

I folded all the stuff in the trolley, but I didn't fold the stuff in the basket.

I didn't get here too late because obviously I had to go from my house.

Now, I'm not charging the mileage to the baby bank because that's nappies that mothers wouldn't have.

From the baby bank, but I am going to start charging it to Sherlock.

So I'm going to start keeping a costings diary of all the inconveniences and stuff I've had to pay, like I've had to pay for parking or whatever, you know, so that when we go to court, we can say, well, look at all of this nonsense that was created, not to mention damages to the brand and everything else,

and breach of the trademark.

So like, you know, I had to drive from my house to Cwmbran, pay parking, waste two to three hours in the process of all of this by the time I got in here and got sorted, and then come all the way back to Caerphilly.

That would be 10, 15 packs of nappies.

So that would have been 15 families that wouldn't have had nappies this week just for the petrol alone, not to mention the parking.

And so we weren't trading from nine till 12 in this shop.

So what we took in, 150 pound an hour.

So we're looking at three, four, 400 quid we may or may not have taken.

I'd have to do a costing.

What the court would probably ask me for would be a costing, which is worth me doing now rather than waiting later, costing from three other like charity shops, secondhand shops in this area, in the Caerphilly area, of what they took between nine and 12 this morning on this date,

so that they've got a baseline to work on, you know, or on average of those three.

Because Caerphilly is quite a busy area, especially in the morning.

We're at morning, then we have a lull through lunchtime, and then it gets busy towards the evening then.

They come back out for a second round of shopping.

The new guy's up here.

Psych yourself up for a second round of shopping.

The other thing I wanted to say is because a lady's been going in the marketplace, trying to gain access to our shop for EJs, and our access to our shop is opposite Peacock's.

Sometimes the bottom door's open.

It hasn't been for the last couple of months because I've had a member of staff office being ill, her mum has died and was very ill, and her son was very ill with cancer as well.

So we shut the shop down and used it for storage rather than take on another storage facility and have to pay another £500 plus for the last, I don't know, however long it's been shut, four or five months.

Because we knew we didn't have the extra staff anyway, and we couldn't have it fully open because of the fire regs, which I've addressed in previous videos from previous complaints made by Sherlock.

How long did that take?

Can somebody work out how much that took for me to explain that?

Because, you know, we're going to start doing it by the minute, I think.

Oh, yes, please, the boxes.

Oh, fab.

Yeah, I love the boxes.

Good boxes.

They are brilliant.

So, yes, that's that's what we're going to start doing is costing.

So just for you to be aware, we're not actually affiliated at all with the indoor market.

Our window is in the indoor market.

But we're nothing to do with the indoor market whatsoever.

Lovely.

Thank you.

I put my books and stuff in there.

Now, I always have good books off the off the good, another good buy shop, what they called the old New Woolies, they call him.

You said we bought rails off.

You said it was a good price when we first started.

We come here.

I'm sure we come in this shop.

I said, Oh, this is a nice shop then.

I'm sure it was this one.

I don't think it was his shop.

Sure.

It was here.

We come and bought rails.

So, yes, we're not affiliated with the indoor market or the outdoor market.

When we first went to Pontypool, we went to look in the indoor market and.

We ended up getting a shop.

The reason was, was the expense for the marketplace would have been exactly would have been a little bit less than the shop.

And we had tons more space and.

We found it a little bit clicky when we when we went to look at it.

We still find it clicky.

I wouldn't work in the marketplace.

If they said to me, do you want all of these stalls for free?

I wouldn't go in there.

We do find it very clicky in there.

I know there's a there's a stall that wants to get out and get in a shop and been asking us advice about it.

And I've been trying to find the landlord and I can't find the landlord.

And we told him to move.

We said, don't stay in that area.

Move into a different area anyway.

So just for you to be aware, we're not affiliated with the indoor market whatsoever, and I wouldn't recommend anybody take a stall in there.

Personally, the outdoor market.

Boys, lovely, don't have any trouble with the outdoor markets.

We have a good old laugh and a joke of them.

We really do.

We see some of them because they used to go black with market, you know, and they go around.

Some of them used to do splot car boots with us and they used to do splot markets and abacavani markets.

So we've seen them all before anyway, you know.

But what we find is we don't bother much with the indoor market.

We used to do a lot of blogging about it, but I stopped because it was just I just thought I'm not going to give them my time because, you know, they don't give us the time and they're very nice about us.

So but just for you to be aware, our window is in the marketplace.

I'll tell you a little story, actually.

When we took on our shop, obviously, the other shop that was selling the drugs had painted the window inside and out.

So we had to scrape it all off.

Took forever.

So we had to.

So Ragamuffins staff helped us.

They said, oh, use this product, blah, blah, blah.

They were good as gold, good as gold in Ragamuffins.

And I scraped.

So we scraped it off, cleaned off the window, cleaned it off.

In the following day, they put posters on the window from the market side.

That's that's the type of people you're dealing with.

So obviously, I peeled them off, tried not to break them the best I could.

And then went up and said, right, don't put any more on my window again.

But that's the type of mentality you're dealing with.

So this is the ladies been knocking at the door in the marketplace.

That is not a door.

We have another door around the corner.

That door is shut and I keep putting a sign on it.

But these Sherlock idiots keep ripping the sign off saying, if closed, come around the other side.

You need to come in through Pontypool side.

The poor lady's been trying to buy stuff for like three weeks.

And she's gutted because she's been trying to get in there, trying to contact us.

And eventually she found us on Facebook.

And then she said she'd come to the town and I was shut and I was didn't see the message and.

I didn't see the message and the lady went home and she was at the other door.

So I'm really sorry, guys.

And what I'm going to have to do is paint it on the actual door, because every time I put a sign on the door, these idiots are pulling it off.

So, yes, so very sorry about that.

So I don't know if anybody else has gone in the market and they've said, how do I guess about that window?

I think some people have and the storeholders usually say, yeah, pop around your jeans.

Some of them are pretty good, but we find some of them are not.

So that's why we decided when we were going to go in the marketplace for a second time, we sort of decided, no, let's get the shop instead, because it's better, it's our own, we can just shut it up, can't we?

And crack on.

And, you know, if I got a load of stuff in or we've got an issue with staffing or whatever, we can just shut it down and we don't have to worry about it, do we?

Because we've got our facility of having the connecting door, which was the beauty of taking that particular shop on, wasn't it?

I've got another door that I could go through.

Well, two.

But I don't know.

I don't know if I would, because we're talking stairs then.

And I can't do it with my knees.

I can't expect ever volunteers to carry stuff up and down stairs either.

It's hard enough as it is with the square footage that we got and the donations we get, you know.

And then you've always got the risk of somebody falling on the stairs.

And the one.

Both of the stairs are not the best for stair lifts, because I've looked at them all.

I've looked.

I do this all the time.

I look at everything.

I'm looking at shops and places all the time.

So, you know, I've already looked to say, is it feasible to take that on with a stair lift?

And it's going to be awkward.

It's going to be awkward.

One of them would need two short ones and other ones.

And then the other one is our own pound shop stairs, because that's got a connecting door at the top.

I'd like that a bit.

Mine to go right across there, but it's very bad condition, apparently.

Where the big window is at the top, you know, the big department store windows above the hairdressers.

But it's bad condition, apparently.

I mean, in there, you know.

But the staircase there is very narrow.

So you'd need like a mini stair lift.

So I mean, we might get one for free.

They come up all the time on the marketplace.

People try to get rid of them all the time.

But I couldn't see us there.

You know, I can't expect other people.

Can I to walk up and down all the time, especially with stock?

It's hard enough, isn't it, guys, with the stock?

I'm shattered.

I've only emptied like 16 bags.

I emptied, but that's nothing for us.

16 bags of clothes I just emptied and they're all going to.

Well, it was a few.

There was one or two that I put there that might be OK, but the rest will be like pound ones, you know.

So nice, still nice, but pound.

I can do fill a bag for five a year, but I don't want to do fill a bag for a fiver on the ones hanging up because it's hard work to get them out, sort them out, size group and put them up.

OK, so it's not worth us doing it for like 20 pence an item.

It's not worth the work.

So I'll do it from the trolley in the tub.

Fill a bag for a fiver.

It's a carrier bag size.

I don't come in with like a ginormous Ikea shopping bag.

We've had that before in the past.

That would be that.

So that would be five, ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty five.

That would be 30 quid if you had an Ikea shopping bag.

And obviously we're doing four for fifteen.

It would be just a normal size carrier bag, fiver from there.

Mix and match it with the fill a bag for fiver children's as well, if you want.

Yeah, so can you Jess, if you know anybody, can you just tell them where our door is?

So if you say to people, go, oh, yeah, go and see Jane's baby.

We're going through the door by Peacock's side.

Tell them that because this poor lady wanted to be shopping with us for three weeks and she hadn't been able to.

So I hope she's found us now.

I think she have now, anyway, and I think she's been in and bought some stuff.

So fingers crossed in it, guys.

I can't actually get to the marketplace window at the moment because we're so full up with stock.

So I have got a waiting list of some.

Some of the eternal bow was sold, some of the turtle toy is sold, but they're happy to wait until I get in there.

And the Lauren and Hardy stand are sold as well.

I only meant to sold, but otherwise I can't get in there.

But these guys have paid and are willing to wait.

So we have got a shopping list.

I have told them it's going to be at least three, three or four weeks unless anybody wants to buy us a shop, buy us a warehouse and I can clear it out tonight.

So there we are, guys.

There we are.

