So I'm going to do a quick video.
If anybody wants to come in and do some painting they can.
We think we're gonna put the grid rails across there.
I got a size cube today now.
Now if you want to bring in furniture you can, okay?
They have to have fire warning labels on there.
But give me a message first, okay?
I don't particularly want sofas because they are a bit of a nightmare, okay?
So you can contact me first.
Poofies and things are not too bad, okay?
Contact me first, right?
Because I know the council told one charity shop to refuse something because it was a table without the fire label.
It was like, it's wood?
Of course it's gonna bloody burn, you know?
Stupid light.
Anyway, if you can come in today and park there for a few seconds you can, right?
Because you're loading and unloading and you've got loading and unloading rights to a shop, okay?
And bring the furniture in.
So if you've got like dresses or wardrobes and stuff that's fine.
We probably keep the dresses anyway.
You know that because we've got all of that to kit out the affiliate.
I got one I think in the donation centre to come over.
I picked up the other night which is like a glass one and then a bottom.
But we always keep extra DVDs and stuff in the bottom.
I'll take the doors off and then use them as shelves.
But if you want to drop it off you can because I did a video the other night and basically my shop loaded on us.
But one customer had put their stuff on the driveway for us to pick up and it was fine.
We'd arrange to pick up, it's not a problem.
It was a massive shelf.
Which shelf was it?
Oh it's the one that's in the donation centre.
It's quite big, it's glass doors and then I think it was that thing which is really heavy.
And they were out on the driveway ready for me and that was fine.
I got them in, right?
No problem.
And then we went to somebody else.
There was a two-person job and I asked if there was any steps because of my knee.
And we said no but they were upstairs.
So that one collection turned from one collection to four and we refused the fourth because well we had stuff to do.
You know, we just kept saying take this, take this, take this.
When we were there and we were like hang on we're taking all of this now for free and yes very grateful we're going to use it and the rest of it but that's a removal job.
Right?
Upstairs to downstairs that's a removal job.
Yeah?
And you would pay like 250 an app, maybe even 500 an app for stuff from upstairs, furniture from upstairs.
So what I'm gonna say is you can drop off furniture but you need to drop revenue to bring it in guys, okay?
Because I can't expect the volunteers to lift.
I lift anything I don't care, right?
But I can't expect the volunteers to be lifting stuff out.
No sofas guys, I don't want any sofas at all because they never sell, okay?
And then we're left with all the sofas, you know, and there's so many fire eggs with sofas, it's unreal like.
So we don't want to do that, they just sit around forever.
So yes if you want to pull in there and bring donations then you can, it's not a problem guys, okay?
If you just nip in and do it, it's a lot easier now than the other shop.
But don't leave them outside guys because of the bin dippers, they rife again last night round here.
I've had something this morning so I'm gonna hang them up now.
I'm waiting for the Pepsi Max and the paracetamol and the baclofen, my muscle relaxants to kick in.
They're checked for MS but at the moment they're saying I am and got it but they're gonna give me the muscle relaxants anyway.
Sometimes drugs can work for that, I can't remember what the technical term is, but sometimes drugs can work differently for different things.
So for example gabapentin, gabapentin is meant for pain, it's actually meant for seizures but it works really well for pain but it does make you pile on the pounds unfortunately.
I put on a lot of weight when I was on the gabapentin, a lot of weight and very quickly and I couldn't get it off and I was gutted with that because it was a good one.
But anyway my baclofen, the muscle relaxants, they are my miracle product.
They are the only thing that worked for me.
I feel a million times better when I take them.
So yeah I was just about mid-night last night setting it up.
I got size cubing to do.
Jan's refusing to come in and do a We've got to get plasterboard.
We've got to get some wood to do.
I've got some wood delivered today.
We've got a couple of jobs to do.
A couple of jobs we've got to get done ASAP.
I don't think I've got any yellow and black tape left for the steps.
And then next week I think, I think it was a bit you know ambitious for us to get it all done in one day.
But we'll get a plasterboard for that main room, get a ramp so that the bottom level is accessible for you to go.
I need a pram now.
We've sold the pram.
I need a pram to take it through to see if you can get around all the corners with your prams.
Because you can access, look, you can access.
So this will be a ramp, right?
This.
I don't know if we can use this stuff.
They might say no because it's not wide enough.
But we could always use that to display stuff anyway.
That's empty so I don't know what's in there.
We'll have a look.
This will be plasterboarded.
And then you'll need a ramp here.
Look at all this for our Aberdash.
I knew that was there before we even came in here.
It comes through here.
We've got to plane this, paint this, and then come round here.
This might be a bit tight for your pram.
And you can access the bottom of Pontypool 1.
You can pay in either shop because you can either go up the top or you can go down the bottom.
It's not a problem.
You know, you haven't got to pay me in my shop.
You can go through.
Come on, I'm going to go through this bit now.
And then this isn't for sale.
This is ours.
So you can come in by the Wrangler top and the flask and go, all right, I'm going to have them.
And then go, oh, I forgot you had a shop round by you.
I'll come round by you now.
That's fine because there's somebody on either end.
And then if we're low on staff one day, like this, we've got to be taking off, look, before customers can come this way.
And then ramp that for your prams.
Yeah, so I need it fairly bulked.
They're standard size.
The doorways are standard size.
What's this one?
Oh yeah, standard size.
So it'll just be pinning the doors back when we got to fix the turn off.
We're going to do something a bit unusual with that when we get around to it.
Again, more storage.
So we'll get down to pin these back and then put stuff all on their box or whatever, couldn't we?
And you can maybe take the alarm.
This shop's alarmed as well.
Maybe you can take the shelves up a bit more.
You know, I love Pontypool.
It's so croaky, isn't it?
We went upstairs.
Oh God, if you'd seen upstairs yesterday, it was like a rabbit warren.
I loved it.
But the problem was, because the landlord said, do you want this for storage?
And I was like, the problem is my knee.
I said, I won't be able to get up there with all them stairs.
I could do a stay-list now for Pontypool.
I need three.
Three stay-lifts for Pontypool.
They come up quite often for free, but you've got to uninstall them.
But sometimes the boat sees on them and then sometimes you can't snap them in half.
So, you know, you're driving around with a great big huge stay-lift stick out your car.
It is hard to remove them.
But if anybody's taking one out, drop it off if it's working, guys.
If it's not working, it probably just needs the battery charged.
So that's all it needs.
Just jump start.
You can jump start the batteries and charge them off a car.
Like, I've got to clean the windows, but I haven't got a step ladder because the windows are quite bad.
Roughly.
Make somebody out to paint them now.
Paint some characters and stuff in them.
The floor, I think they've painted brown because I was going to varnish it like the other one.
We'd varnished over there because somebody give us that pot of varnish.
If you've got any paint now, I got some at the top.
But with this shop, we're going to need a lot in there, you know.
I've got to get that wall painted now, ready and then put the grid rails up behind it.
That's the deal.
So there's not a lot of work on that because I ain't going to sand it down and paint that job done in there.
I'm going to clean up over there now.
It's not my job to do that, but it's a bit slippery.
I think the council have neglected it because nobody's been in here a while.
We've had customers in this morning.
But yes, eventually you'll be able to walk through and then you'll be able to say, I'm on this top and that top and I'll have that marble figure.
And am I all right to keep going?
Yeah, yeah, go on and off you go.
Or you might come in here and you might say, I'll have those couple of items there.
I need a pack of nappies.
So you can either go up and we can let Sammy know at the top that you need nappies or the other staff.
Or you can go around and we'll just text on the group chat or we can do it as a stamp or whatever.
If the Wi-Fi ain't working to say, or Sabrina is coming around.
She spent five quid.
She's having nappies.
So yeah, do it like that in there.
But you can still access the top of Pontypool by going that way as well.
So you can access it both ways.
Now it was a no brainer when it was attached to our shop.
It was a no brainer.
As soon as I seen it, I wanted it.
But then we had a lot of people filtering off money, didn't we?
And we couldn't afford it.
We had a lot of stuff going on with them damaging the roof on purpose down Risca to try and get us kicked out.
And writing letters and complaints all the time about us.
I don't know where they think we're going to go.
We're still more popular than all of them put together.
So I got a bag of donations there, but it feels like lots of little toys.
And I've got Anger Up to do and Size Hubing to do.
But I've got more rails, right?
You know how shops are railed out in there.
So Angers, please, guys, desperate.
Absolutely desperate for Angers.
We've got lots of children's ones and they're all different sizes and they crack me up.
So I was going to get rid of them, but obviously I don't want that expense at the moment.
We've got other things to worry about.
The mod shape our Angers look.
But yes, for mums that have the five food banks top up and all the rest of it, you're still entitled to it if you buy it from this shop.
We decided not to put nappies and food bank in this shop at the moment because we didn't want people double-lipping.
We've got to see how it works first.
It might be that we get more customers coming through this store than the top door.
So we might change it around and have the food bank down here.
But we'll see, you know, we'll see.
It's nice to see shops opening in Pontypool.
There's one down by there.
Oh, hello, hello.
There's, oh, I don't think you've seen him there.
There's a big, huge husky there and I don't think I was on the door.
This one next door.
I think they said something about a cafe.
Ragamuffin's got a cafe, but they have a spiral staircase.
I've never been up there, but it's lovely in there.
If we go in there, it's a nice building.
It's a nice building and they've given us loads of CDs and stuff in the past and they give me my big stools to sit on.
I don't know where they are now.
I think one's in the window.
So yeah, there's lots of people walking past.
The footfall is bigger the other way, I would say, but the footfall is not bad here either.
So, nice big windows here.
I have to sort out a better window display than what I got.
At the moment, I've got Kevin, Kevin the Carrot's Mrs. Because I got him over there.
I've got the skeleton they found and then some toys.
I've sold some toys at the window this morning though.
And lots of people looking at the shoes.
So they're £5 or they'll be £2.50.
And all the clothes in here are £2.50 or they're the £50p.
I've got a couple of designer kids there.
I just banged them up last night because I couldn't go up the stairs last night with my knee.
Take them up to Sammy's side in the boutique.
So they're only like £3.50, something like that.
So there's some nice ones there actually.
Nice ones, you know.
Nice bits and bobs.
So again, you know, I think I put £3.50.
They'd be £1.75 today wouldn't they?
Oh, there's our suit.
Caroline, my mother washed it.
Lucky it came up nice.
Like I said, we restore stuff.
Oh, the lights in here.
Yeah, that's lovely that, isn't it?
Like a little confirmation suit or a wedding suit.
So yeah, so I'm going to crack on now.
