Oh, morning guys.
I'm running a bit late as always.
My knee is bad but my ear is better.
So thank you for letting me have yesterday off because I was able to...
What's that scaffolding?
What's happening there now?
I was able to take that time off so that my ear infection didn't get worse.
It was all down the side of my jaw.
It was awful.
All right there underneath my neck.
I thought, oh god, what's this now?
My throat.
I thought I owed that all for throat infection that Dan had and everybody else had got.
I'm just here now sorting some stuff out.
Oh, he's going further up the scaffolding.
Perhaps he doesn't know how to get into the building.
No, he's trying to turn up there, look, and he can't.
Ah, he needs to go up the top road he do.
It's for the marketplace, I think.
So thank you very much guys for letting me have the day off because I was able to rest my ear and it was a lot better.
And my mum cooked us dinner.
We went up there and I just did some labels in my pyjamas and Dan helped my dad, etc.
And we did some of her stuff.
The cafe is quite full.
Thank you for bearing with that.
Dan did have a woman last week that kicked off.
Said there was too much stuff in here.
Tell us something we don't know.
You must think we're blind.
And then she sent me a full page email about something.
And I was like, block.
Block.
Thank you to everybody who was bearing with us.
There's two car seats here.
I told the lady last week we didn't have any car seats in Caerphilly.
I lied.
I didn't know we had these.
I got that one and I got this one.
And the seat cover is in Pontypool.
It's being washed.
So the Pontypool staff will keep it back.
So I have got the seat cover for that.
I think that's the only two I've got.
Thank you for everybody who's bearing with us.
I've just seen these now.
I wonder if we screwed those two together.
You've got them up for sale, but actually would they fit in there?
Possibly.
If I can excavate this today.
Oh no, it might be a bit too wide.
Can you fit them in there for the free library for the mothers?
To put the free books on here.
Because Pontypool free library it's only one shelf, the free library.
But it's all books that mothers would use, you know, save you buying them.
But I'm just thinking now, well they might fit on there.
We've got this.
Lovely.
45, and then he's got a smaller one, 35.
Smaller one there, 35.
Got this beautiful table for 45.
Couple of little chairs.
There'll be a fiver each.
Push chair.
I thought we had two here.
You must have sold one, I think.
You've sold one.
I've got some sort of telly.
I remember picking them up from the lady the other week, but then I'd been busy and then I'd been ill.
We've got our lovely chair.
We've had some other stuff go on, haven't we?
We've got this headboard, but the headboard is marked and we don't think it'll come off.
But he's only put it up for two quid, because it's marked.
Then we've got the big grey headboard.
Heather essential price, I can't remember what we said.
And then we've got that bed set here, which is ten pound because it's a little bit marked.
I've got to sort this lot out today.
And then I've had a lovely donation off Viv.
And he made me laugh, Viv, because I laughed yesterday.
He said to me, Viv's come in with some donations.
I said, all right, OK, where do you put them?
He said, well, the only place I could put them was on top of the books, because it was quite a lot, which it usually is off Viv.
We know that.
It usually brings in a load.
I know it's a time.
And I did ask her and I said to her, are they all clean?
And I was like, oh, I nearly spat my pop everywhere.
I said, oh, and what did Viv do?
I said, did she smack you across the head when you said that?
I said, tell me the only...
I said, the one person in the world that will bring in clean, sparkling clean donations for us is Viv.
He said, oh, well, she wasn't very happy with it.
I said, no, I bet she wasn't that.
But he'd had a row.
He'd had a row last week for taking in dirty donations.
But he made me laugh.
He said, oh, yes, you weren't very happy with it.
So thank you very much.
I'm going to work now this morning.
I've got to sort some bits out to get in, yeah?
Thank you for everybody who's bearing with us.
We know how full we are.
And you know how popular we are.
And there's not a lot we can do.
Not sponsored by Pepsi Max, but should be.
There's not a lot I can do other than refuse donations, which I don't want to do.
Unless somebody wants to buy me a warehouse tonight and racking.
I don't even need the racking.
I'm happy with second hand, run down place.
I'm not fussy.
Don't have to be brandy.
I'm not fussy.
I've had a few people with garages contact me, but they're like garages.
And I'm like...
Number one, we'd have to really pressure wash it down because we ain't going back to that state of a place again.
You know, it would have to be scrubbed.
You know, and we haven't got time to do it.
You'd have to do it first.
And...
It'd be full in a week.
If we had a garage off hill, even if it was a double, triple garage now in Caerphilly, it'd be full in a week.
You know?
So I don't think a garage is going to be the best solution for us.
We might as well just carry on as we are, really.
Um...
I could get storage boxes up there, see?
And take...
If I had somewhere else now to put that, or find somewhere to put that lot safer, or pack it away in storage boxes, I could get 10, 15, maybe 16 storage boxes up there, see?
And put stuff in there.
It's the way we've...
You know, but obviously we want stuff on display so we can sell it as well.
Yeah, so my year is better, thank God.
It was such a pain coming down my jaw like that.
I'll try and do some lives today.
Because you've seen how much we got paid, didn't you?
So that's why I wanted to do a video, really, and then I went off on a tangent, as usual.
Um, ooh, hang on.
Right, so.
What I wanted to show you was...
Also, payments that we had off Meta.
Facebook Meta.
Because we are paid influencers.
Oh, now I could keep that, because I am the influencer, yeah?
But I don't.
That's all going back into the baby bank, okay?
I'm not here for the money.
I'm here for the recycling.
I'm not in it for the cash.
I'm in it for the junk.
I love it.
I love this junk.
I love recycling it, right?
I absolutely do.
Now, anybody who is a creator will back me up on this.
If you are paid from Meta, Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, any of the social media platforms, you will know that you have to be a legitimate registered entity.
Whether it's an individual national insurance number, or a business number, or a tax number, you will not get paid unless you are a legitimate entity in the UK.
And anybody who is in the creator funds for any of those social media platforms out there will tell you that we would not have got paid that if we were not legitimate.
And we were just out here winging it.
Now, just because Sherlock and his flying monkeys, right?
And all these registered charities going back and forth, who don't get paid in any of this, by the way, they don't get paid this, right?
Just because they can't find the details they're looking for, for the malicious website, doesn't mean to say that we are not legitimate.
Because there is no way that Metta would pay us that if we were not a legitimate entity.
There is no way that the council wouldn't be here now to shut me down if I wasn't a legitimate entity.
Right?
Because the council ain't going to miss out on a penny of a legitimate entity.
Right?
So you can carry on tagging me.
Right?
You can carry on sending these muppets and these clampits around to try and beat me up.
Makes me laugh.
You send these people around to beat me up.
Right?
I've never lost a fight in my life.
Ever.
Right?
I'm like Rocky.
I'm like Schwarzenegger and Rocky all together.
Right?
I'll be back.
I'll be waiting for you.
Right?
So you send these clampits and these muppets around.
Right?
And then they run off crying to the police and they say she's beaten us within an inch of our lives with a health and safety sign.
She battered us with a health and safety sign.
Or you lie and you say oh she picked me up and threw me on the pavement and stole my bank card.
Or they lie and they say oh she hit the two of us at once.
You know, one flew over the toasters, one flew over the baby area.
You know, I am being right since I can't walk properly.
You know, you're even going to post a video on Facebook which we're tagged in which we get monetised and we get paid for.
And I can also claim for you because I can also claim externally for you because we are trademarked as well in damages and revenues.
So, additional to this, OK?
Or you're going to run to the police and make complaints and say that I battered you with a health and safety sign.
None of which, by the way, I've ever been arrested for.
So make your minds up.
There's another one that's whining saying oh my mother got fined for fly-tipping.
It's all her fault.
Whose fault is it you got fined for who approached you first off-camera about your fly-tipping?
Who then verbally attacked me on Facebook with several members of your family saying that I'd accused you of fly-tipping?
When it's your rubbish, it's your responsibility.
You've been fined because you fly-tipped.
You're going on a course with the police about your behaviour because you threw the fly-tipping at me and hurt my leg.
Okay, you think you've got away with that but you haven't.
She's on two weeks holiday.
She's coming for you.
Yep, you're being arrested by the police and on bail because you're lying.
Basically.
I'm not lying because I've just been paid by one of the biggest companies in the world.
Which I wouldn't be if I wasn't a registered entity.
So that's my point I want to get across this morning.
And all these clampits and muppets that keep turning up saying that and putting videos all over Facebook think we can't see them.
Think we haven't got copies of these videos.
Who commits a crime and tries to assault somebody and then puts the video on Facebook?
An idiot, that's all.
Idiots.
But that's okay because that's worked in my favour.
So the more you tag us, the more you slag us off the more we get paid.
So crack on.
Crack on.
I really couldn't care less what you say about us anymore.
The other one that said that we were laughing at an autistic child we were laughing at your fella's profile picture.
Because when you get sent a dick picture, which was laughable two pictures, seven messages unwanted, not responded to the first thing you do after seeing that part of the anatomy is you look on their profile to see who they are, to report them.
Nobody was laughing at your autistic son.
We were laughing at your fella.
But he didn't know what to say to you.
So he had to create a different narrative.
But there we are.
You crack on and you carry on tagging me as much as you like.
Because I get paid for it and because I'm trademarked, I can also send you a bill.
And because your fella was stupid enough to also put a video on of where you live makes it easier for me to send out the bill for you breaching my trademark.
So perhaps you should blame him.
Perhaps he is the one that hasn't got any understanding or IQ levels to deal with the real world.
But there we are.
Any creator out there will tell you that you would not get paid by Metta, Facebook, TikTok all the rest of them, unless you are a registered, legitimate entity in the UK.
HMRC didn't get paid unless you've put in a legitimate national insurance number or your company numbers.
Just because you can't find them doesn't mean to say that we don't exist.
Well here we are.
Here we are guys.
Right, we're open most of the week.
We've got two days which we're not open.
I've got two ladies looking to start.
There's not a lot that can be done in Caerphilly shop.
It's literally tidying up.
So if you want to volunteer in Caerphilly shop you can.
If you're an existing volunteer, can you please go to Pontypool?
If you want to work in Risca shop and you're new, go to Risca shop.
If you're new and you want to work in Caerphilly shop, come to Caerphilly shop.
Okay, but there's not a lot we can do in Caerphilly other than just straighten it up and tidy it up.
Because we are blessed by the donation fairies again as you can see.
Oh Oh Is there anybody with a fairly bigish van or car that can pick up from our friends today in Bettis?
He's got two lovely storage units.
Be ideal for toys and stuff.
If Dan screws one on top of the other but I can't get down until tomorrow afternoon and he needs them gone.
I just can't get down there.
I've got two glass cabinets to pick up tomorrow afternoon as well.
I just I needed today to have an easy day because of my year.
Because of my blood levels are low.
Look, I don't want to get any I don't want an infection to get out of control.
So I managed to bring it down.
I managed to bring it down so
I was lucky because I had an IV in my house and I had liquid paracetamol and I managed to obviously don't try this at home.
You need to be fully trained.
But I managed to bring my temperature down very quickly with the IV paracetamol.
But obviously don't try that at home unless you're fully trained.
But I knew it was getting worse and worse and worse throughout the day.
Tired.
Bad load of sugar this morning so too much sugar again.
I think I might see if I can get those two cupboard units he's got there together.
Well you can screw them together for DeafNet and then we can put them in there and then we've got another free library.
And all the books are coming from weaning, breastfeeding, toddlers.
What did we have the other day?
Something to do with like toddlers from hell or something it was called.
We were laughing about it.
But Pontypool's little bookshelf, just by the note to three close, is full.
That is full now of books and like sometimes we get like learning to drive ones in and things like that.
The RAC books.
So I stick them on there as well.
Because some of the mothers are learning to drive.
Quite a good sleep too.
Still yawning.
But yeah it would be good if we could get one up here.
Now I don't know if we can fit one in Risca.
I need...
I've got two glass cabinets coming tomorrow.
Right?
I think they're this size.
Which will fit in Risca.
But I could do with another one glass cabinet in Risca.
The Ikea ones like this.
And I could do with some more CD racks at the moment.
That's what I need now.
Who owns the little green hairdressers up the road from us in Pontypool please?
We're interested in that shop as a hub for Lego Club Craft Club.
Because it's too...
You can't do it.
You can't put a table out and chase around anything in the shops.
Now they're full.
So who owns that?
We've asked a few people.
We've asked in the flats.
Peacocks girls think that the flats above us like own this little green hairdresser shop.
We've rung the hairdresser.
It's not hers.
She was renting it.
I need to have a look in it and see what the layout is like.
But it would be ideal over there because the girls can just keep an eye on it when they're in the shop as well.
There are other little shops in Pontypool.
But as a...
We've had good response in Pontypool to what we do and sales.
So it would be nice to have one hub in Pontypool Town for the children to go to and the mothers to attend and do things.
And then we can also maybe...
Because we've got so many books and I'll always take the books.
You know I will.
But we could also have an actual library now.
But I haven't got room for it in the shop.
So and it might create a problem within the shops.
Because we don't want to blur the lines of what you can borrow, what you're stealing and what you've got to buy within the shop.
So having the shop as just a shop entity that's a shop.
This is where the library would be better.
So it would be better to have the library of children's books, adults' novels in a little hub.
Wouldn't it?
So I quite fancy that little green shop.
I'm going to have to have a look at it inside.
Because it's not as big as our shop.
It's only like a little box.
I don't even know if it's got a basement.
And what state the basement would be in.
But it is literally next auto hours and there's only a few ups so it would be ideal.
Poundland is empty except for all the rack in there.
Which is a shame.
But they want too much for it.
Unless you're squatting it.
You could fill that overnight.
So if you're an existing volunteer, please can you go to Pontypool?
Because that's where we need you.
I only want new starters in Caerphilly and new starters in Risca that want to work in those particular shops.
Because they're small and they're full.
And we need to get people in those shops now.
Because I need to free up Daniel to run the donation center and to build the rack in and do everything he's got to do over there.
And I need to be off now and doing other stuff like grants and out liaising.
And maybe like in the supermarkets, in the front of the supermarkets fundraising, things like that.
That's what we need to be doing.
This is my favourite part of it.
Sorting the stuff.
Making sure all the boxes get fixed.
Can we use this?
Can we fix that?
Doing all of that.
But I need to be doing some other stuff.
Or we need to pay somebody to be a grants manager.
Something like that.
Which charities do do and entities do do.
Erm...
But I'd like it to still be run by volunteers at the moment.
Because then we can say we're run totally by volunteers, can't we?
So I don't really want to employ anybody as of yet.
Maybe next year we might look at employing people to do certain jobs.
Which is always what we wanted to do anyway, was employing others to come back to work.
Or give them part time hours to do jobs.
Erm... Because we know we can be flexible can't we?
We know like a grants manager can work from home.
They don't got to work while they're providing their own childcare.
They haven't got to work in the shop have they?
You know?
Erm...
Somebody asked me for foil blankets.
And I can't remember who and I'm getting so many messages now.
It's really difficult to er...
It might be that we have to start messaging Dan and Sammy for requests on top of me.
Because I can't remember who asked for these foil blankets.
And it is nippy out there now in the evenings and somebody asked for them.
But they're here in Caerphilly and they wanted to pick them up from Caerphilly shop.
They are here for you.
Erm...
So yep.
I've got to fight my pen now and crack on.
I've got loads of donations.
Loads of donations to work.
That child area has been quite ransacked over there.
So that needs working.
Got to see if I can get those in.
And then I'll try and get on a live when I start pricing so you can see what I'm pricing.
If you see something on a video, because what we're doing at the moment is we're cleaning it, pricing it.
And then putting it back in a box.
And the box is next to come out when we've got space.
But if you see something on the video and you like it, let me know.
Right?
Let me know.
We've put the opening times up 10 till 4.
Last minimum.
OK?
Those opening times are minimum as you know.
If I'm in a shop, sometimes we do late nights and what have you.
But we'll post that on the old Facebook.
If we do more.
At least it's dry today and what a difference that makes.
Hey guys.
Nice yesterday.
I was gutted yesterday because I thought we'd have a nice day.
It would have been a nice day in Pontypool and we would have had people walking past.
But I needed to take the time off of my year.
To make sure it was... I thought I can't have a week with my year like that.
You know?
And the problem is I can't run an IEV.
Can I?
In the shops.
So I can.
But, you know, somebody will complain I expect.
At least at home I can do it.
At home can't I?
What's this one?
It's like a snow one I think.
Is it?
Right then guys.
I better get on with some work.
See you in a bit.