So, my consultant just rung me about my knees.
I'm not top of the list, but they want to see me next week.
So, fingers crossed.
I might get a new knee now before I'm 70, that might help.
So, we've had our first knife.
Two children approached me because they'd found this in the park.
And they didn't know what to do with it.
So, it caught me off guard a little bit because I would have been better off.
Well, I didn't really want to say, take it to the police station and then carry on locking up and leave them with the knife.
And then the other thing was, like, I don't really want people turning up at the shops with a knife.
You need to come when we're doing the actual event because they're safer, obviously.
But I didn't want to leave two children with a knife till Monday either.
And I don't think they would have been able to make it to the donation centre alone.
And it was a long way for them to travel.
And obviously, the buses are not running on a bank holiday, you know, so it's difficult, really, for children as North Local to donate it.
So, I had to think on my feet a bit.
So, it's quite rusty, it's quite old, but it's still a weapon, isn't it?
And so I grabbed a bag because I thought, well, I don't want my fingerprints all over it because who will point you in having the safe box to put them in is that you don't touch them.
So, you haven't got no fingerprints on them.
And obviously, they're safe.
Nobody can get them back out.
So, they're safe until the police hand them over.
So, I thought, well, they caught me on the off a bit because I was locking up the shop.
So, I was a bit like, oh, my God, you know, two children with a knife.
I was like, oh, God, what have I started?
But I thought, well, I don't want to leave them there with it.
So, I thought the best thing to do is just bag it and say thank you to them, you know, and well done for handing it in and, you know, bringing home.
And I got the bin, the bin's in the back.
We've just got to drill it to put the lock on it, we have.
So, I won't take it out of the bag or anything like that.
I don't know, you can't focus on it.
It's quite rusty.
I mean, it doesn't mean to say that it's not a weapon.
You know, anything can be a weapon, can't it?
But knowingly carrying a knife or using a knife is illegal.
And that's what we want to try and do.
And it's awful to say, but like, they wanted to take it to someone they can trust, not to get them in trouble, you know, because children are not going to walk to the police station and say you are as a knife.
Most children wouldn't, especially if they've kept the knife.
Like, if they've just found it, they might take it to the police station, and go, oh, I've just found a knife, and not think about it and pick it up.
Yeah, which, you know, we should be teaching our children not to pick up a knife if they see it, because, you know, there would be fingerprints on it then.
They need to contact some, you know, someone to pick it up.
But if they've already been out in a park, and if I was a kid and I was in a park and I saw something like this, I'd pick it up and go, oh, look at that, look what I found.
You know, and they've kept it, then that's when it plays on their mind, because they've kept it and they knowingly know it's an item that they shouldn't be keeping.
And then they're not going to go to the police station with it, because they're going to be afraid they're going to get in trouble.
So this is why we want to try and stop this.
You know, maybe further down the line we can, I don't know, do courses for children to try and explain to them, you know, I don't know, is there anything out there at the moment to say to children not to take knives to school and take knives out with them?
I don't know what's out there.
What training?
We never had anything in school about knives.
So, you know, just at least we've had one in, at least they brought it to us.
I could have gone across the police station with them, but they just caught me on the off a bit.
I wasn't expecting that.
I know I've started something, but I wasn't expecting it.
So I was like, oh, no.
And then I was like, oh, no, I can't touch it.
Because the first thing I wanted to do was take it off.
And I was like, oh, so I thought, no, I need to put this in a bag and then we can pop it in the bin and then I'd like I can write on this bag and where it was found and where it was handed into and then any problems the police can trace it, can't they?
So, yeah, so there we go, guys, our first one.
But that's good in there, I think.
I think we've instilled our trust in them now.
With the way we've given out things like the sanitary items and the contraception and things for free.
I think they know they can come to us and trust.
They've got our level of trust with us as well.
So, like I said, try and keep them until Monday.
And they need to be dropped off by Monday, really.
But if you find one in the meantime, the best thing to do is not pick it up and contact an adult straight away and they can contact the police for you.
But I wouldn't recommend picking them up.
I don't think somebody might have just had that.
Was it a double fishing or something and it was in their pocket?
I don't know.
But there we are.
So Dawn's had a good week at Brynmawr.
So thank you for that, Dawn and her daughter.
They're doing well up there.
I've got some washing I brought home.
And then Dawn had this and I thought, I'm not sure if it's the same one as the pink one over the donation center.
And I'm like, well, we could even have a pink pram or a blue pram if it fits.
If not, it's just a carry cot.
But, you know, we get rid of the carry cot.
But we're trying on the wheels over the donation center, I think.
And you can even choose then because it's really bright pink.
And if you're not looking for a pink pram, it's not the best, is it?
But yeah, we've had a good week down Risca.
Good week in Brynmawr.
Good week Blackwood.
Blackwood have smashed it this week, fair play to them.
And good week Pontypool.
Everybody's worked hard.
It's always harder when the weather's like this, isn't it?
But yeah, well done, everybody.
And we've had quite a few new volunteers in as well.
So brilliant.
We've had one, two, three, four.
Yeah, four.
Four new volunteers in.
So absolutely brilliant.
