Evening, guys.
Look at this bad boy I've just rescued from landfill.
Look at this.
I've had loads of stuff.
This is the three books.
So first published in one volume, India paper edition.
So 1969.
So that's an antique version.
1969.
What was it?
India paper edition.
Does it state on there?
No, it doesn't state on there.
What was it?
India paper edition.
Well, it is lovely, isn't it?
A lovely little edition to Pontypool shop.
I'm sure this one will be around long.
It's quite collectible.
Very nice one.
I think they normally have the maps, don't they, in there?
Maybe they have a map, don't they?
That's how Game of Thrones went so well, because they had the maps.
Lovely antique edition.
Oh, I think that'll be gone.
By the end of next week, that'll be gone.
Somebody will have that.
That's lovely.
Sold a couple of books today.
It'll be three or four.
Just normal ones.
They're so normal ones.
I don't know if they answered me, but I know I didn't.
Just normal books, but they went.
So that's good.
And I've got a lady now to come in anyway that's going to manage our books in Pontypool and Blackwood at least for us.
She's going to set it up.
I told her I wanted to look like The staff we've already got try their best, but we're just overwhelmed now with customers, jobs to do for customers like making up baskets.
Like I've had to say to somebody, you need to pick up your basket at your bundle by Monday or it's going to be going out to somebody else because this is the second bundle we've made up to you that you haven't picked up.
That's two hours, but two hours tidying the shop has been lost because I've had to make up a bundle twice for this person.
So I've lost two hours of cleaning and tidying and sorting and organising and pricing because we've made up a bundle and still I'm being picked up.
But I have said to this lady now that I want it to look like a water stone.
She knows what she's doing.
She knows what she's doing.
So that's great.
So that's how we want it to look.
She's going to put gold because the book customers are paying the prices we're asking.
We can't get to the box now, you know.
So like I said, let's get it set up.
If you need shelves moved around, she's going to put them in alphabetical order and everything.
So hopefully now we'll get that sorted this week.
We've got a couple of new starters coming in this week.
Come along this week while we're inducting people and doing the training and everything else.
Like I say, you can have £5 store credit a day.
I don't think any other charity shop does that.
That's why we're the best.
