Alright, so morning guys, I'm in Caerphilly shop.

I've got to order my tyre in for tomorrow.

Right, so anyway, we were donated this, so I might keep this for me when I'm sat here, because I quite like Caerphilly shop.

I do.

I like it.

It's nice and peaceful.

We've had a few dickheads, but not as many as we've had elsewhere.

I quite like this shop here.

It's quite nice.

So I might keep this armchair, because it's better for me to sit on, because I tried sitting on the little chair all day and it killed my knees.

So Dan's been busy while he's been down here.

He's sorted out the hardback.

He's sorted out the books ready for dawn.

It's still quite full here.

But that's okay now, because what we'll do, what we do, you see, is we rotate the donations.

So we won't have donations here for a while.

That's how we do it.

He's put up some shelves, so that means we can display some more items in this little bit.

You know us, guys.

We use every single bit of space, don't we?

You know us.

So yeah, I haven't long come in.

The signs return, but they haven't reimbursed the cost of the bike lock.

Don't cut anybody's signs off, regardless if they're mine or anybody else's.

Don't do it.

I've still got a suitcase.

I've got loads of suitcases.

Good suitcases in.

I think that's new.

I'm saying that.

I think the other suitcase is gone.

This is the only one left.

This should be over Pontypool now, this black chair, so don't sell that to anybody.

See, if it's going to be Pontypool, it's going to be here.

I've got to get onto the council to see if we can have one of the outside bits for the cafe.

Which I'm assuming will go over there, because there is nowhere else to put it.

It'll be there, won't it?

Or will they do something there?

They usually go on the road, don't they, guys?

That's how they do them.

People parked on the lane blocking it again, and there is tow signs on it, so it's your own fault.

Right, he's done the books.

However, we have a problem.

It's like something from Indiana Jones you have to get through.

The novels, the dividers are too long.

They were too long in Blackwood, but the shelves were deeper.

So he's going to have to saw these so that they stay inside the bookshelf.

So he's going to have to take a good sort of, couple of inches off, isn't he?

But the novels are done, and they look good.

Now, I don't know if they're as good as when Dawn does them, mind.

And I need to find... I might have put it somewhere, just stuck it up so we don't lose it.

She's done lists of authors.

Yes, here they are.

Alternative authors.

So I'll get those up today, now, down there.

I need to find somewhere for this glass cabinet, but he's having trouble with the door.

So it'll probably just be a display cabinet without the door now.

Can't get the door to stay on.

Somebody asked me about the maternity chair.

Yes, this one here.

That's the colour on the cushions.

It's a pine one.

There's no... I got a bed here, don't forget.

There's no...

cot, I think it's sold.

Yeah, there's no cot here.

But there are some cots with outfixings in the pound shop in Pontypool.

Okay, and they're a pound, because they're up there.

So if they're up there, they're a pound.

Everything that's up there is a pound.

Except my surfboard, man.

I need a surfboard, because that's my prop.

Um...

No, I've got another shelf for the children.

Oh, I think we can get some more in there.

If we kit it out better.

It's not the best.

But then we wouldn't have the boxes, because everything would be on a shelf.

So I think we can get another shelf.

Oh, we've got the radiator in there.

Right, okay.

Because I've got a little bookshelf.

That's a funny shape shelf, that is.

It looks good, but it's not.

It's actually a nuisance shelf.

Um, can I have that down in Whiskar at one point?

Okay, so we need to figure out the children's area.

We need to figure out now where the hardbacks are going to go.

Because we haven't got room for hardbacks and novels in Whiskar.

Or even just one shelf in Whiskar.

But we would also like to have a free library for mums here with the books as well, wouldn't we?

I might have to get rid of my chair, but I think this would be better all round for my back.

When I'm here.

I don't know.

Sometimes a harder chair is better for me.

A trialous one.

It takes a while for me to get a chair, then I usually put my name on it.

I will be here now till at least, well, maybe four today, maybe five, I don't know.

It's very quiet out there today, very quiet in the town.

But I have got books to do, so, you know, that'll take me a couple of hours now.

Providing I can find everything.

Why does Daniel always write the seals on the front of the book?

Why does he always do that?

That's the cover.

I don't know.

Anyway.

Space saving.

Going over 20 lines there.

Well done.

Well done, Daniel, saving money.

20 lines.

Half a page.

Oh, it's such a mega full.

Surprise, surprise.

We need a furniture shop.

Because we're selling the furniture at a loss now.

I think Chloe sold the three chairs out there at a loss for like 11 quid.

Bar stools, which they were £75 each online.

We let them go three for 11.

You know, has it even covered the cost of me picking it up?

Probably not, has it?

So we need a furniture shop and then we can set out the furniture better.

Set it out like little pods like Ikea.

Won't that look lovely?

And everything will be for sale.

We need a little hub where we can do some stuff.

That isn't related to the shops and all this stock all of the time.

Because sometimes some of us need a break.

Some of us need a break from volunteers, messages, public.

We need to just go in there.

Still work, because, you know, we can still work.

It's not just me, it's other people.

We can still do work, but we need it to be like quieter.

And it might also come in handy for some other stuff like our clubs.

Because right now I've got to run a craft club in here.

I'm lucky because we can do it out the back in the gazebo.

Because the weather's nice, but it would have been nicer.

So the lady who's doing the craft club here, we're only going to give her three people to start off with.

But she might be able to go up to five to six.

And I think she's going to, primarily it's going to be card making.

That's her thing.

Okay, it's free.

It's totally free.

But the only thing is you wouldn't be able to bring the children because they need to be supervised.

Unless you've got a baby that's in a pram.

That is like one to two months old.

That would just sit there in the pram, maybe have a cry and just need a little bother knowing again.

Which would be next to you.

Or in a seat next to you.

Because we can't monitor the children running around.

Okay.

Although this shop is quiet, this road is quiet, there's still a road out there.

So we can't be 100% watching children when they come, when you're doing a craft activity out the back.

Or in a side room or something like that.

Is there anybody who wants to run a craft class in Pontypool?

I would like a hub.

Blackwood Pont and Frife area.

I don't know, Caerphilly area.

Sort of that area.

So another little shop or another little place.

And then...

Someway Pontypool.

The one that I fancied...

Well, the one that I fancied down the courtyard if you've seen my videos.

That one, I really liked and somebody was in there.

So I was like, oh somebody's in there.

How did they find it?

Who was renting it?

Because I couldn't find it.

But then I noticed the toilets are outside and I'm like...

Do I want a place for children?

Where the toilets are outside and not in the building.

Addle colouring club.

Yeah.

We do, don't we?

We need to all go out for a cocktail night.

That's what we need.

All go out for a cocktail night.

Leave the kids at home.

Yeah, so I noticed that the one in the courtyard...

The toilets are out in the courtyard.

And I don't like that for children.

I would rather they have toilets inside our building.

Because if they've got to go outside to a courtyard to use the toilet...

That's going to take a member of staff to stand there and make sure the toilet is empty before they go out there.

And there's no weirdo in there.

I think they're locked.

I think you'll have a key for it and they're kept locked.

That's going to take a member of staff away from the group of children, isn't it?

If somebody's got to go to the loo.

I don't like the fact the toilets are outside.

I'd never noticed that before until the other day.

And there's, you know, gents and ladies outside.

So that's put me up.

That's put me off the courtyard highway.

I don't like that.

Unless they've got internal toilets of our own.

I'm not... I'm not happy with that.

Because it's primarily going to be a place for Lego club and craft clubs and things like that.

And if we do another stuff, like one mother was going to do children's Jumba and stuff.

I think this was called Jumba.

Jumbu.

I don't know.

What's it called?

Exercise staff.

I don't like the fact that, like, you'd have to go out.

The shop would be by you and then you'd have to go out.

To, like, down by there and that's where the toilets are.

It isn't a direct line of sight.

And I just don't like it.

Because what if somebody was in there or what if somebody did come in there?

What if one of the members of staff got called away because there was an emergency and there was a child in the toilet and then they wandered out and then they could wander?

You know, there's all sorts of things going on.

Whereas if you're in a building like this, the child can go up to the toilets there and there's no way of that child leaving the premises.

Is it without you or anybody going in there without you being fully aware of who's in the shop sort of thing.

And it being on full CCTV with audio.

So that's put me off there.

So I'm looking for another smaller shop or something in Pontypool.

There's lots of small little shops in Pontypool.

The reason I always say a shop is because with a shop, I could get a unit tomorrow, but with a shop you've automatically got the A1 license.

So if you wanted to trade from it, you could.

You know?

Which we could do because we could have all sorts of things going on there, couldn't we?

We could have craft sales there, loads of stuff going on there.

I don't want to fill it up with donations.

So I might have to give the keys to somebody else.

One of the other staff.

Don't give it to me.

I got 50 bags, please let me in.

Oh no, you're not coming in.

I got about 20 bags in my car.

A proper nice designer.

Nike.

Vintage Nike and Adidas stuff in my car.

Lush stuff.

Lush.

Really nice stuff in there.

And also a load of yours plus size clothes in.

Nice stuff.

They would go on our like 10 pound rail, but obviously we'd be half price, so they'd be a fiver.

Thing is, like, you pay a fiver for these clothes in the other charity shops, and these are our pound clothes.

You know?

We've got eight rails here in Caerphilly.

Plus a trolley of overflow.

Plus a box of overflow.

Plus there's bags behind there of pound clothes.

Don't forget you've got the pound shop in Pontypool.

Fill a bag for a fiver.

You know?

And it's whatever's up there, because we chuck all sorts up there.

Bags, shoes, anything that we like.

You know, got a pencil case that's got a dent in it up there.

You know, because that's where we put the stuff that most charity shops would bin.

But we try and reuse, recycle the best we can.

So we put it up there.

So if we've got a pair of trainers with no laces in, another charity shop might bin them.

But we don't.

We put them up there.

And then you can have them for a pound or less.

Because they'd be in fill a bag for a fiver.

And that's our attempt there to recycle beyond the end of the product's life sort of thing.

You know?

Whereas other shops would just chuck it out.

So yeah, we need that and we need another warehouse.

With racking.

Pump truck a lot.

Because we're at capacity everywhere.

Well, past capacity I think.

But, you know...

It's just...

It's nuts.

And the thing is we're getting people now.

We have people down from Essex every day coming to meet us.

Do you see what I mean?

It's like...

You know?

The thing is like we get...

Say I say to you spread the word and you tell ten new people about us.

That's brilliant.

We get ten new customers and they start shopping it down.

But then the next time they come in they bring ten bags with them.

And before you know it you've got another hundred bags to go through.

You know?

But it's all good because we love the recycling.

We love the recycling, don't we guys?

That's what it's all about.

It's all about recycling.

And then if somebody's in an emergency situation like a house fire.

We can just fill up the car and go and deliver it out.

Like we've done before, call me.

You know?

And there's no impact to our sales.

There's no impact to the amount of stock that we've got.

Because, you know, if somebody had a house fire.

Five children.

Two adults.

And they needed clothes.

And blankets.

And everything else.

And toys and books.

If I was to fill up my car now.

I would normally make a dent in you.

I wouldn't make a dent, would I?

In any of our shops.

So it's not going to impact us in any way from fundraising ever, is it?

It's just another way of getting the stuff out, isn't it?

That's the way I look at it.

Right, well I'm here now because I did say to some people I would be later.

Because I had to wait for my tyre and I knew they were going to be later.

But they've got to order it in now for tomorrow.

So I'll have it by tomorrow.

We'll be opening Pontypool tomorrow but we might be late.

Because I've got a double Ottoman bed coming in that comes in two parts.

So I've got to pick that up.

I don't know about the mattress.

We're going to look at the mattress while we're out there.

We'll put it up for £20 because we need it going quickly.

Probably can't deliver.

Well if you've got it in the car we might be able to deliver.

We'll figure it out.

But you need to view the item in person.

So say about £12 for Pontypool.

Because we could be backlogged with stuff.

Right, I guess I'm worked out.

