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Down and finds an ingress and comes in that part as well.
So, I'm happy.
And that's the main thing, you know.
I'm happy with the decisions that we've made so far.
I'm happy they've gone because I would have, if I would have just sat there forever waiting for something to happen.
Because I know how much work it is to move somewhere else and do everything.
So, you know, I'd have just sat there forever waiting for something to transpire in terms of fixing.
shops around me and they wouldn't have done it.
And they know that.
That's why they've had to, the council have had to enforce it themselves.
There we are, guys.
So, these don't fit, unfortunately.
So, we'll just put them by there.
But then I've got quite a few.
I've got to sort out today now.
There's quite a few there, look.
Sort them out.
I've got a little basket there.
I like that little basket with them in, but they don't sit very well there.
Sort them out now today.
I've got the books for the books to retoflip.
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And bear all being the most.
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[unclear] And we're so, remember the shelf I had them on, in that shop?
They was like crates, and kind of whole together.
I'll add a dangly over the edge on my end of my jmOK.
[unclear] And they were like, it was like, the grey shelf with crates on it, on wheels.
It looked like it would be made out of like champagne con I'll nick that.
That's gone.
So, the only people who've had access is the landlord.
And this scrap guy, Ali's not going to take it.
Ali was in the middle of a job.
They've got it all ready to come over you.
My love art shells, you know, the ones that's like in hearts, they've gone.
Mannequins, some rails.
Mannequins, rails.
I've got a card stand there.
Can I find a box of cards?
They'd look better on the stand, say.
So, yeah, they've taken loads.
I need a phone stand or something.
It's on half burn my battery.
This guy is going on live on TikTok.
But I got a good charger now.
We bought one and brought it down here.
I got some dinner over there.
I might move over there now.
But he's just put this one.
But he's just put this one together for me.
Because I can get books on here as well, see.
The books need to be in the background because we've got so many.
This is nothing.
This is one part of the shop, these books.
because they've already empty.
Because they've already emptied room.
This case, all of these came from room one in Pontypool.
Right, or room two it was, but all the other books from three, four, five, wherever they've come from, right, they've already gone into the donation center.
Because we were like, right, if these landlords are going to move stuff, let's get them to move the heavy stuff, we've done this before, it's not our first rodeo guys.
It's not our first rodeo guys.
So we were like, get them to move the heavy stuff, why are we moving the heavy stuff?
Stupidity, innit?
So, obviously we've done that, so they took them to the donation center and they're all boxed up, priced up, priced up, priced up, ready to go next time, so we've got to empty them.
But these are the ones that came in from room two, that were on shelves.
So, Ard Eve brought these ones down for us, so you can see how many books that we have, because P2's books are still in there, and we know we've got three, four, five shelves of educational books in there alone.
And this is in the children's books, and this is in the children's books, because I've just dragged them out the back for now, because he needed the room to build the castle, and we need the room out there to set up that now.
Erm,
quite nice by you though.
I think that was Carl there when passed.
Yeah, I think it was Carl.
Erm, and all his hivers.
He probably don't really nice with you.
I can't get hold of Gwyn, because I don't know what I've done with her phone number either.
So, but Gwyn, Gwyn, Gwyn hasn't got a mobile, but she's got a mobile but she doesn't use it.
Erm, from Risca.
So if you see Gwyn, tell her we're going to have a shopping in Rogerstone.
I tell her I've tried using telepathy, because she's never in, so she doesn't answer her house phone, and can't leave a message, and she doesn't answer her mobile either.
So, you might have to post like a card or something to her door, tell her where we are now.
So yes, this is us guys, you know, for the next four years.
So I don't know if we'll take on a third place, we'll have to see how the economy goes.
Because of course it all boils down to money at the end of the day, don't it?
We, they give us a deal, they give us some mums free coming in here, so that was nice of them, and they wouldn't take anything off the rent.
So yeah, if you ever want to set up your own baby bank, or your CIC, or anything like that, let us know, because we've tried and tested loads of things, you know.
We haven't actually applied for grants yet, it's all grants that people have given us, but we haven't actually sat down and applied for a grant.
But we've got to start doing that.
But obviously I've got to deal with these idiot landlords now, like Caerphilly, Risca, I've got to take them to court now.
But I'm going to try my chances at court, because the stuff's gone, you know, well, I don't know, HDT might have to return it, it's stolen goods at the end of the day.
But then at least, we, you know, we'll go for the full amount, 10,000, we might not get 10,000, say we get 5,000.
We can say, right, we've got 5,000 pounds.
The courts might stipulate, well, you've got to buy equipment with it for the shop.
They might say, well, you've got 5,000 pounds.
You know, because the mannequins, because the mannequins, because the mannequins do go well, they are good, and they're also a deterrent for theft, because they make people jump a bit.
They're like, oh, you know, put people off, nick in and stuff.
Or we could put it into something else, couldn't we?
But you know, we haven't even gone in the yard yet, because we haven't, we can't find a padlock, so we've got to cut the other bolt off.
We haven't even gone in the yard.
I think he's picking one of them up today.
We haven't even gone out there yet.
There's about four or five shipping containers out there.
Could be anything in them.
I haven't got a clue.
We've got patio doors that we had for Risca Shop, that we hadn't put on yet.
We were about to put them on the week where we had issues down there.
So we've got patio doors to go by there.
But the rest is all double glazing.
And it's all got, I don't know if you've got, I don't know if you've seen it on the pictures, but it's all got wired, wire shutters on it and stuff.
So you know, you can't break in through windows and stuff.
All the doors have got like metal doors on it, like you know, on the inside as well.
So if you broke in through a door, you'd have like a shutter.
The security is really good, yeah.
So it was a bit out the way.
But then again, it's a busy junction as well.
You've got buses stopping.
People stopping, people stopping, people going, oh, oh, there's a James Baby Bank over there.
We put the signs up in the window the other day.
We want to get a recycle centre sign up as well.
The new, you know, the second logo we got.
And then we want to, I've got the one set of tables in there.
He's got another table he's got to dismantle to get out the canteen because it looks like they've built canteen tables in there and then you can't one dangle them out.
So he's going to have to undo them, build them in the classroom one, ready for the key stage two or the adult.
But we also got key stage one.
So we also got key stage one tables that we can have smaller with the chase.
So that's good, isn't it?
So we could run it like from four o'clock.
Four till five is key stage one and then five till six key stage two and then six till seven another key stage two.
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you know or seven.
And then, mums, you can either come in your shopping, or you can go have a cup of tea in the cafe bit that we're going to be doing in the little kitchen there.
It'd be free tea and coffee, squash and pop.
Or come in here, read a book if you want, I don't mind.
Bring your own book, borrow one of ours.
Or you can go and come back, it's entirely up to you, we don't mind.
You can sit in the room with your children and help out as a volunteer, I don't mind.
It's entirely up to you.
what you want to do.
But that's going to be free.
The children's play areas will be free as well.
But I think we're going to put them there because it works out well with our disabled toilet.
And we got a male and female toilet that side.
But we could close them down.
We don't particularly need them open because we've got male and female toilets just by you.
But the disabled toilet is up by that first little playroom area that we got, you see.
And then we got the Aberdashery and then he's going to put the toys in there.
[unclear] We haven't actually got anywhere for Christmas now for Christmas as of Christmas as yet.
It wouldn't be big enough for Christmas, mind, because we have so much Christmas stuff.
Christmas and Halloween and stuff in there.
They haven't pulled the Christmas stuff out of the little room yet in P1.
It's at the back, I don't even know if they know we've got that room.
A lot of my hangers went, you know, the select hangers, unless they're downstairs where Chloe and Sammy and everybody else put them, then they've gone on my hangers, all the ones I had off select, and I wanted them because they were all the same.
Loads of stuff, loads of stuff.
We went on a rubbish pile and Daniel found some weights on a rubbish pile.
Well, they're not rubbish, are they?
You know, they're weights.
They've got to come here, haven't they?
[unclear] You know.
P2 were like, oh, well, we need a full inventory of what's in the shop.
Well, I can't give you a full inventory because you've got to go.
Because you've got to go.
And, you know, the full inventory is everything in the shop.
Because we took it off.
It was a shell.
There was nothing in there.
Oh, my God.
I think they're on the make, P2.
I think they want the stuff to sell.
That's what I think they want to do.
And they said, oh, yeah, and the council said we've got to set it out properly before we can have anybody in there.
What do you mean set it out properly?
It's not your shop, it's my shop.
Remember Blackwood, Landlord, when he went nuts, you know, you ransacked the shop?
It's my stuff!
You, you, you know, you gave us four walls and a roof.
That's all you got.
I think he thought he bought Jayne's Baby Bank, that one, because he was like, well, you've taken all the shelves.
They're my shelves.
You're taking all of the equipment.
It's my equipment.
You know, it's been donated to me, or we've bought it out of fundraising.
Oh, I'm one of those apex shelves have gone, because we had one in the window.
And, like, I don't know if you can remember P1 window.
We had a beautiful ornade metal and glass shelf.
It was massive.
And I said, let's have it up there and put all the teddies on it.
You might not have seen it, because it was covered in teddies.
But that's gone as well.
We've tried to make a list of what's gone.
I got the one catch of Hoover, which was rubbish, because it's my old Hoover, that we used to have in the pound shop area, because they weren't very good.
They weren't very good.
It was only one room, wasn't it?
It wasn't why they weren't, it was only one room wasn't it, so we just usually have that upstairs, so the staff didn't have to walk up and down stairs with a Hoover.
And then the one that was on that floor, gone.
So that's gone my carter Hoover, which is my own you know, because I've just donated it to the shop, because I've got a new one.
That's gone.
It's been so nice year as well, not to have any carpet, because you can just slide everything around so that's been easier, manual handling.
We sorted the autobiographies and biographies are all in that box for there.
We've done that and then I've got some of the sports books for there because they go well next to the records when the fellas come in for records.
Do you want another walk around?
Anything not to do with these books.
Give them another walk around if you want guys.
Oh, I didn't need.
It's going down a bit now because we're doing less.
I need a hoverboard or something to get around here.
So these are the boutique clothes.
Obviously we've got all of those over there.
This I'll put shelves across there.
That's the games room at the moment because Helen sorts them out.
She made three games up for me yesterday.
Junior Monopoly, Payday, something else out of two or three games that were damaged, you know.
So she'll put the ones that need fixing in the cupboards, the ones that's done, they'll be in there.
So this is what I'm pulling apart today.
I didn't like it.
It looks scruffy.
Right, that's how we used to do Pontypool.
We don't want to do that anymore, do we guys?
We've got things like this we've got to get rid of.
So we've got a little bit of stuff.
So we found this.
We found this.
We said, look that's better isn't it.
Bit dusty.
Give us a chance to give it a dust now.
But don't that look tidier.
So we got this room, which was going to be baby stuff.
This room, which was going to be children's stuff.
And the play castle.
And we were going to put the Yankee Candle Cupboards in here.
Because we put the toys on them.
They're good for toys, you know.
But then I said, look, what do our mothers need?
They need somewhere to go with the kids, don't they?
[unclear] Yeah?
So we were going to use this one as the imaginary playroom.
[unclear] Right?
Obviously, there's still stuff everywhere, and we need to give it a little clean.
So you're going to be able to book this room.
We've got curtains and stuff up there.
So you could have booked it, gone in there, add our imaginary play with the kids for free.
That's what we were going to do, put all the things in there.
But then we were like, actually, should we just... because the kids love the castle as well.
So should we just... because the door's right the way through.
So should we just construct this?
[unclear] Yeah?
So that they can use those three rooms there for playrooms, which would be better in the long run.
So then we'll move... oh, I don't know where the lights hang on.
They're down a funny corridor.
This bit is a bit funny up here.
But it's okay, because we can't.
But it's okay, because we can't.
But it's okay, because we can put bookshelves up here, or we can put the pound rails, which are like on the IKEA rails, which... so this is haberdashery.
So it looks worse than what it is, but it's not going to take long, because Sammy had priced all of that.
[unclear] And we can't.
[unclear] So, there's a bit of a bit.
[unclear] So we've probably a bit.
[unclear] So, we can't put them up here.
[unclear] So...
[unclear] And we can get it all up, and we can get it all up on those racks.
[unclear] Sort it.
[unclear] Be ready.
[unclear] So that'll be Aberdash, right?
On this.
So then this is the back where we're going to be putting all the storage.
And we've got back doors by there, right, where people can come in round the backyard if they've got an house clearance and put it all there.
So we've got a chance to sort it before anything happens to it.
We've got another room up here.
This is this corridor situation which is a bit all over the place.
We've got this room here.
They have a good room for sorting.
We've got tables in look for sorting, ain't they?
Then that's a random corridor, but we can put things like the idea of rails and put the panels on them.
Then obviously don't you.
This one.
This.
I might shut it off.
This one.
This I might shut this off.
This one.
This I might shut this off.
This one.
This, I might shut this off for now because we won't be nuts.
There we are.
It's got a nice toilet.
And then there's another toilet in there.
Ladies and gents.
I was standing here for ages, couldn't get out this door.
It was a posh.
It's typical.
So then you come up here, see, and there's the three playrooms, look.
But we also got a disabled loop, which I think would be ideal, wouldn't it?
I don't know if we get a baby change in there as well.
Oh, am I telling you what we could do is put the baby change in here somewhere and then cordon it off.
Because this is just like a corridor and they've like blocked it off.
So there's nothing here.
So blocked it off.
So there's nothing here.
[unclear] So we could... So we could... so we could...
[unclear] So we could... It was a light. [repeated 10x]
Are you going to figure out where the lights are then?
Anyway, we could put the baby change in there, couldn't we actually?
We might be able to get two in this bit.
One there.
Or maybe have one as a breastfeeding and a baby change there.
All we want is a door.
Well, yeah, we're back on now.
See?
Corridor's nowhere.
Hmm.
Okay.
Well, have a look.
We've got a bit of carte blanche, really, because at the end of it, it's going to be demolished, so, you know.
Alarm, what have we got?
Fire panels all working.
So, this is the reception as you come in, but we could use this as something else here, aren't you?
I never liked classroom.
I haven't got to be in reception to come in.
Then, we've got classroom two.
It's got quite a bit of stuff in it.
This is a guy's bike he left here.
And then classroom one.
We've got the key stage one tables in there, look.
[unclear] Ready.
I need the key stage two.
I know we need to get our stuff out of there, but I need more shelves now.
[unclear] So, yeah. [repeated 7x]
So, then you come down here, and you've got access to all those rooms there.
And then the main rooms.
So, they can be going on while we've got the shop open.
You know, have some sort of baby group going on in there.
Like, we'd have to sort that out.
So, don't you know.
So, I'm more out of here.
[unclear] So, there's a bit.
[unclear] So, there's a bit.
And then this bit, like, we've put the cops there, because Daniel, I've got to make sure they're not broke.
Make sure we've got all the bits to be cleaned.
And then, that was toys I needed pricing.
I've got all my shoes by there ready to sort out into sections.
Bits of rails.
These look like pound clothes.
Prom dresses.
I've got to be.
Prom dresses.
I've got the prom dresses from Pontypool.
This is all P1 stuff.
We've got all got to be checked to make sure it's okay.
Most of it's priced.
The kids bookshelves there, look.
We salvaged so much.
Look, we've got two of these.
We only want a board to go on them.
Fantastic sorting table for the staff again, isn't it?
to do the pack testing.
Another sorting room.
And then another sorting room.
We've gone through, what we did, the first thing we did was go through them all, because I found Stanley blades up there.
We went through all the cupboards to make sure there was nothing in them and what have you.
And we got them out, got rid of the rubbish.
And then I moved the lockers that were already here, because my lockers in Risca shop were stolen, and they weren't sink a finish shop.
the staff lockers that we've bought out of fundraising.
So anyway, they're all the ones with keys for the staff.
It's nice to have your own locker, isn't it?
And they'll wipe out.
And they're down you out of the way of everybody then.
And this is going to be where we do the baby bank sorting out.
So all the baby clothes and stuff will come in here first.
We'll sort it out in here.
But you can also see the cafe look from here.
So that's where we're going to have the cafe.
So anybody in the cafe can see what baby items, because the ateers said, because the ateers said, Oh, I don't see her doing anything, but well, we do.
And they can make up the parcels here and you can see them being made up, ready to go out.
And that's when we thought about the food bank by year as well, because it's a lockable door.
We haven't got much in there, because we've got to fix all of this up.
So we can put the food bank there. [repeated 3x]
So we'll have K-Lex units there, whatever, bits and bobs.
And then I've got all the pictures here at the moment, but it's all past the board wall.
So we're just going to go around perhaps Monday, put a bowl of pictures everywhere, because they're less likely to get broke.
And you can see them in situ there.
And I mean some pictures.
Like my uncle painted that one.
And my auntie bought him that one.
She bought that for my nan and my granch, but I know she paid like 300 and odd quid for that.
So that needs to be displayed, doesn't it?
But you'll be able to see through there, because we had loads of alcohol stuff here.
And P2 are holding me, these are..
these are the big tables, not like a Oh, so you've got to take off, because we can't one dangle them out.
So you can take your legs off and get them out.
Build them up in that first craft room.
And then we've got another one for the second craft room.
And then we've got And then we've got café tables here.
We've got some nice chairs in this.
All those chairs were here.
So we're either utilising the staff or whatever.
And then obviously we've got kitchen, You know?
And then you're back in the shop, guys.
You're back here.
So let me take you out the front now.
So there's my crockery.
And it was so nice to have the time.
I don't usually have the time to display anything.
To display it all in colours.
And then I put it on and I had one shelf blue, one shelf green.
And I thought, oh no, I'm going to put all the greens, all the blues, all the brown.
It was nice to have that time ourselves.
Because usually we've got to move stuff.
They're moving from here until my five years is up.
So yeah, we've got patio doors to go on there.
I've got some books there.
We've got the counters there.
I didn't want that counter, but they brought it.
So we turned it into a counter.
That's Blackwood counter.
But I mean, that's not going to take another move, is it?
Might do.
Might sell it off, innit?
Then I got all the glass cabinets there, which have got the locks.
And we're pooling bits of furniture that we're selling by there at the moment.
But that's not going to be.
But that's not the time.
So we're not going to get that right now.
We're not going to be very far.
But that will be all the glass stuff.
But perhaps that needs locking away.
So then out here.
I don't know if anybody's asking me questions.
I don't know.
We've still got a bit of rubbish obviously here.
We're going to have, we'll have the overspill out here.
Because we're going to have the pet cafe.
Obviously we're going to strim all of this.
Roy was going to come with a strimmer today to do it.
Let's get all of this down.
So we won't have any parking in here.
Because you can park on that little lane.
There's the entrance by there.
I wanted to put a bookshelf in this entrance, but I ain't going to be able to do it like a community bookshelf.
Because this goes flat against the wall.
So unless I had a corner one by there, oh, I'm still not going to do it.
It's all right.
That's all right.
Because it would be, you know, free books by your life.
So yeah, we put the signs up.
CCTV everywhere here and it's all working.
So yeah, this we're going to have things for sale and then like I got all of the clothes bank people.
We'll have two or three clothes banks by year to put all of the rubbishy clothes in.
Because that's all a little fundraising for us.
You see.
So we're out by here then.
So the little bit by there seems to be these houses parked there.
So don't park on that bit.
And what we might do is keep the gate closed because of the kids.
We don't want kids running out, do we?
So we might just have a sign on it.
Then this, you can park here temporarily.
So this will be a parking for us.
There's loads of parking places, but you're out the way then.
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If anybody wants to paint any murals down here, let me know.
And you can advertise your murals on there, like.
You know, your painting skills or your business.
You do it for, because, you know, it's not for me, it's for the mothers and the children, really.
So yeah, we've got a bit to do by her now.
We've got a bit of the furniture out today.
We've got new doors to add.
We won't put it on now.
We're going to be up and running.
Well, people have been coming in already.
We'll be up and running.
And we can do everything that we want to do then.
Come on, you see guys.
All under one roof.
[unclear] So...
Yes, I'm going to get the books up on there.
I think it looks better than the shoes.
I think the shoes look a bit messy.
And we're used to piling them up like we have done any other shops here.
Whereas we've got the rooms to spread out here now, haven't we?
So, but I don't want to fill up the floor.
I think the paint's coming in a week.
I think it's 20 liters of 20 liters of 20 liters.
So I don't want to fill up the floor too much.
We're going to have to move it to paint a section in a night.
And then paint another section, but I'm never going to get this floor up.
So, 100 quid did look good, wasn't it?
I'm going to have my tablets here guys.
See you in a bit.
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I don't even run out of battery.
Drag the puzzle.
Or your live will end in five minutes or something, I don't know.
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Oh, it's probably because I went down the road.
I don't know if you saw that a bit then.
Perhaps I lost the Wi-Fi, did I?
I might have lost the Wi-Fi.
I don't know.
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Alright, I'm going to have to have a look.
I'm going to have to watch somebody else's live, I think, that's doing all these things.
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I am, guys.
I was going to TikTok.
This is a 919 eligibility standard.
Somebody to do the guidelines here.
Oh, it's probably the heaters, probably the heaters, probably the heaters, I expect, probably the heaters, reporting us.
Oh, they're obsessed, aren't they, guys?
Got it.
That's diamond things, I don't know.
I don't know.
Only a bit.
Oh, you didn't get all of outside, did you?
Ah, right.
Okay, no, I didn't think it went off down there.
We'll show it as we do it anyway, guys.
You know that.
It's just easier for us, it's just easier for us, because we can take deliveries at the back now.
As well.
I mean, if people are parked there, we're not going to be able to, are we?
We're not going to hold people up just for the sake of it.
[unclear] But...
That's blah, blah, blah.
We're not what we're going to hold people up.
Can we just put on our guns...
We're not going to hold people up.
I think it'd be good if you could seal report to do.
All right, okay.
It could be good, couldn't it?
If you could seal report to do, because then you can challenge it, can't it?
What's that?
I might be an on-off button.
Or end!
[unclear] Right.
Try guys!
See you in a bit!
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And this is the third sentence.