Oh, it's raining!
Blimey raining, guys.
Walking past, I think, baby.
So anyway, can I just take this opportunity, while we're quiet five minutes, to thank everybody for this continued support with these plebs online.
You see how ridiculous they are.
I mean, you know, not only now are they accusing me of being my dead neighbour.
And having facial reconstructive surgery, so I look different.
But now, they're accusing me of burning down half of Abergavenny!
I ain't got a shop in Abergavenny!
Unreal.
Unreal.
Just thank you to everybody for their support.
Most people know, in Pontypool, that we've, you know, they've been giving us stuff from the charity for ages.
You know, there's other charities as well that do it, because we've popped down some of the others, like Salvation Army as well.
And stuff that they can't use.
And there's a church one up by here, and they've given us stuff, because they're not as busy as they used to be, they said.
So there's a few people that give it to us, and there's others as well.
So, you know, it was no big reveal yesterday.
We just wanted to keep it from them as long as possible, so that they weren't ringing their head offices and posting on their websites and all the rest of it.
But they're not the only one.
We have other registered charities that help us loads.
Some that give us toys, some that give us, you know, loads of stuff.
Some that's been helping us for a long time, and we haven't even named them, because we know what these idiots are like.
I think they're just clutching at straws now.
I mean, they're still quantifying my qualifications, apparently.
Well, I mean, what bloody qualifications do you need to run a second hand shop?
Not a lot.
I'm pretty sure I'm overqualified for the job.
Oh, honest to God, like, unreal.
And then to pick on a mum, a single mum like that.
You know, just picking on her all the time because she had her picture in the newspaper.
It's ridiculous, like, absolutely ridiculous.
To say that she was nicking stuff on the charity shop.
Well, two of my volunteers, two of them, you know, they weren't.
They've been authorized to pick it up, and they always take pictures of it just in case we've picked up something that we shouldn't have.
And then the other charity shop or the other business or wherever can say, oh, have you seen this picture?
And we can say, yes, by you or no war.
Do you want us to bring it back round?
You know, we always document everything.
We document everything that comes in and goes out, and it's weighed as well.
So we've got proof of the weights coming in.
Because then we can say we've rescued X amount of tonne, far more than you.
You know, so it works in our favour as well, doesn't it?
So, yeah, thank you very much for your support, guys.
I mean, what are they going to accuse me of next?
You know, sleeping with Eisenhower.
What are they going to accuse me of next?
They're unreal, aren't they?
Absolutely unreal.
And I mean, the more and more nonsense that they put on Facebook and their website, the more and more crazy they sound, don't they?
They're like a bunch of fruitcakes.
I mean, that woman yesterday, that Carol woman, was gobbling off, you know, on behalf of the other people.
Because obviously, you know, she doesn't want to look guilty anymore.
And then she doesn't want to lose another page shut down by Facebook, does she?
So she's pushed it onto this old lady now to blimmin' say all of this stuff.
And, you know, we've printed off the newspaper.
We've screenshotted the newspaper stuff for her and put it on the post and said it wasn't us.
It was another charity who was shot burnt down in Aberkavenny and it burnt quite a lot of Aberkavenny down.
Oh, it was you and you did the insurance fraud.
You know, and then to accuse our volunteers of stealing in broad daylight.
They weren't even running off with the stuff like they were casually walking back with the stuff as you do chatting.
Unreal.
Absolutely unreal.
But thank you again everybody for their support and for supporting our volunteers.
What they're trying to do is get our volunteers to finish.
Well, you clearly haven't met our volunteers because they're a tough bunch to crack.
So if they've got to put up with me every day, I'm quite sure they can put up with you lot very easily.
So unfortunately it started raining and the indoor market are doing a summer event.
They're doing a summer day or something in there.
So they're all in summer clothes.
They look lovely all like all in beach clothes.
But now it's started raining.
Are you all right?
It's all half price.
So yes, I just want to come on and thank everybody again.
Perhaps we should take bets on what the next ridiculous statement is going to be.
Unreal.
Thank you to everybody who's been back and forth to Caerphilly shop as well.
And we also had Pontypool customers in Caerphilly.
So thank you ever so much for that.
I love how our customers dot around all our shops like it's lovely.
What do we call the bargains, haven't we?
Fair play.
Loads in here today.
Loads.
We've got an Elvis bundle.
Loads of Elvis stuff.
We've had loads of crockery in.
Lovely glasses over there with daimontes.
You haven't got any wind up watches?
A mechanical?
No, I don't think so, no.
All right, sorry.
I think the tyres have definitely gone down.
Plenty of books in.
Plenty of nice box sets.
I haven't gone through the box sets yet.
I've done the bag on the stairs, Sammy.
I've done that.
Done the washing up, but I've also got some stuff soaking because it was quite thick with like grease.
So I was like, right, let's soak that.
Done all the washing.
Obviously I'm stuck now for drying.
I got it all out first thing this morning.
What do you think?
What else have I done?
Bleached all the sink.
I might put the washing machine on now for a wash with a bit of bleaching on its own.
Because it's never off, is it?
So we've got a bit of a break.
So I'm trying to go price as much as I can.
Because once this... Oh, we just had a pile of CDs in as well.
Hey, are you all right?
All half price.
All half price.
There we are.
For the mission.
And all the clothes up there reduced to a pound.
So yes, there we are.
Right.
So bear with us guys now for opening P2.
Because... So bear with us for opening P2 because we've got racking to get up first before we can get the excess of donations out of there to put on the racking.
So bear with us, you know, because we're trying to condense Blackwood for a more smoother move onto the high street, which we're waiting on leases pending to accept my offer of rent, which is low, lower than what they asked for.
But I think they, you know, so many shops close at River Island, Pound Shop.
If they're not going to sustain it, who are in there?
You know, you've got to get somebody else in there.
I think this time next year will be hardly any shops left.
It will all be second hand shops.
Barber shops and vape shops, I think.
There won't be anybody else.
Sad, innit?
Sad all these little shops go in.
Yeah, so I'm a bit tired.
I'm going to work my way through, get some stuff printed.
We've got some nice stuff.
Look, origami.
Harry Potter, origami.
And then Telling the Time Activity book.
A nice one.
I've got some good stuff.
Another Elvis book I just did.
I've got some pictures of Elvis too, I think.
You've got these in.
These are first editions.
You've got to check all your old books if you've got them in the attic, guys.
Because they're first editions.
Remember when we had them as kids?
Oh, no, you've been up since four.
I was flagging around four.
Like, I'll be honest, I had another kind of sugar at four.
I was like, oh my god.
But I'm alright now.
They look like photos.
I've got Elvis.
Oh gosh, I'm sure they'll go well.
But we've had some nice stuff as well.
It's cooler today.
I don't like the heat.
I don't like the sun and the heat.
I like to stay out of it.
I don't mind it dry.
But I don't like the heat.
I'm like a vampire.
I can't go out in it.
Right, I'm going to go now because I've got a customer in.
I want to get all my books in one box.
And then see if I can deal with some of this.
See how we go in here.
Right, see you later, guys.
