Oh, sorry guys.
I was going to do a live.
I was going to do one when I come in.
But, oh, I've had stuff blow off down the road.
It's windy today.
So it's been a bit crazy.
Then I had a lady come out.
Then I had a gentleman ask me about audio books.
So if we've got any audio books in risk or a Pontypool, which I think we have, we'll bring them up here so they can do a little stint here.
And then we can move them back around then because we've got somebody that is looking for them.
Yes, I've had a few little customers in.
Nothing too big as of yet.
But I should imagine everybody is looking at the Black Friday deals.
We've got quite a few offers on, as you know.
I've got to keep an eye off there.
I put this one up because I thought, well, it's windy and it will catch, you know, these sail-y things.
It's only on the pound rail.
I thought, well, it'll catch the wind, you know, and it'll be a bit... but it blew off all the way down there.
That will run after it.
So I've got this big picture left.
Could do with it gone because it's too big to go on the wall.
I have got another nice one.
I'm going to see if I can get Dan to put up there.
When he comes now, he'll put the lights up here and get that lovely picture that's been painted, as you can see, up on the wall because it's a nice one.
We've got pads in this shop, we've got pads in Pontypool's shop, and he's got pads in Whiskers' shop as well.
Okay, because they are... we did say order them, but I've got more coming in.
Okay, the company have told us to ask £3.50 a pack for them.
They don't want them given out for free.
And they said we can keep the £3.50 towards nappies or the food bank.
So that's great.
I've had another council contact me this morning with a grant for £2,000.
I've been busy, guys.
I told you I was busy.
I was bid £2,000 grant now on sustainable period products.
Okay, so you tell me now, because obviously the word is getting round now because the haters have spread it, you guys have spread it.
You know, I'm talking about it.
We're still being targeted by the haters.
So the other councils are saying, hang on, we've got our backlog of this stuff.
Yeah, why aren't the other charities and the other groups giving it out as good as Jane is giving it out?
Bring Jane, right?
You can have maximum, maximum funding for these sustainable products.
Where's everybody else's?
If they're giving me, right?
Straight off, you know, hot off the press with our number, right?
If they're giving us £2,000 in a grant for period products, sustainable, washable pants and all the rest of it, what are they giving the other groups that's been operating for five, ten years?
And where is the stock?
Because they don't give you £2,000, right?
So I don't have £2,000 going to spend on turkey teeth or my nails like the others.
So where are those products?
Because you get the fund, you order the products, that's the maximum you can order.
Where are they?
Because they're very expensive to buy.
And this is why we want them for our mothers and their daughters.
Because to save people money, because they can't afford the outlay for these pads and these washable knickers and what have you, right?
But where are they at?
That's what I can't understand.
I mean, we've gone down the rabbit hole of where does all the food go?
We've gone down the rabbit hole of where does all the cash go?
And we're no longer cash.
We don't take cash.
We can't only, you know, to prove where our money's going.
But where does everybody else's money go then?
Where are all these products that they have to take out of this funding?
I mean, maybe they're not using the funding.
Maybe they say, well, thank you very much, we'll have ten packs of disposable pads and we won't bother with the rest.
But I can't see that happening.
Can you see them sat on a grant like that?
And no access.
Where is the stuff?
Probably been flogged on bloody Vinted on an account that's got nothing to do with it, I expect.
You know, it makes you think, doesn't it guys?
It makes you think.
Do you have any Winnie the Pooh stuff, please?
Yeah, loads, tons.
Pontypool, I mean, you have to narrow it down a bit, Molly.
You definitely have to narrow that down a bit.
Anyway, I was busy then because I had two ladies in.
I knew they were going to be problematic when they come because they were in the window and I could see them and they were like...
So anyway, in they come now.
Probably 60s, maybe 70s.
Well, what shop is this?
Right, so I told them anyway.
Explain the situation.
Cheaper in our shop!
Cheaper in our shop!
Val or whatever her name was, right?
I said, well, I had said to them when they came in, but they weren't really listening.
I said, well, we are half price.
75% off and other things are half price.
Are you alright?
I'm not sure if I'm in the wrong shop.
Which one are you looking for?
Saffers.
Who?
Saffers.
The one with the old woolies.
Oh, Youssef?
Oh, Youssef.
Next shop.
Old woolies, next door.
Lovely.
Thanks.
Pontypooley best bet for Winnie the Pooh, I reckon.
Yeah, so they were like...
You know...
Do you know what I'm going to do?
Wait at you.
Wait at you.
Cheaper in our shop.
So anyway, they were around by you.
So I was listening to them and just thinking, oh no, they don't like me.
And then...
They were like...
Well, there's no order to it.
See, there's bags.
There's a towel.
They were going like...
Because I thought they were going to charge each other.
So I was just, you know, hanging around by you.
And I said, don't forget we're half price minded.
75% off and, you know, fill a bag and all the rest of it.
Because it is a lot for people to take in when they first walk through the door.
And we tell them when they walk through the door that we can't contact us only.
So it can be a lot to take in as soon as you walk through the door.
And then you're greeted by the volume of stock as well.
So you probably forget your own name by the time you get around by you.
So anyway, they would go in and they were still doing this, you know what I mean?
You know, you could hear them doing it and I could see them doing it.
I said, oh, so what shop do you work in?
So they told me what shop they worked in.
And then the one said, well, I worked there but I was sacked.
So I thought, right, okay.
I thought, I know why you've been sacked.
I can tell now why you've been sacked.
Right, it doesn't...
I don't need a blooming ology in volunteers while you've been sacked.
Anyway, she's going around the shop, moving stuff.
And you can see it's not on the hangar, probably.
Oh wow, it's alright.
Look at this, wow.
Really going for it like they were.
So I said to her, alright, so why were you sacked then?
Oh, well, it was the manager.
She was a bitch.
Really going for it now, right?
I was rocking.
Right, I was really rocking.
Anyway, you wouldn't do this and you wouldn't do that.
And then I was doing this and I was straightening that up.
And she was like, get off it, don't touch it.
And I could see her, right?
I could see this woman.
She was itching to get started in here and start tightening up, right?
So I said, oh, never, never.
I said, well, how did you manage without her?
Well, it was my daughter.
My daughter sacked me.
Well, I never laughed so much in my life, right?
I'd contained it until then.
Right?
Well, I never laughed so much, right?
Her daughter sacked her because she was getting on her nerves because she was so fussy.
Right?
I don't even know this woman's name, right?
But I'm so invested at this point.
Right, that I've offered her a job.
I think she'd be good.
I think she'd be good.
Because she gave me a right row going round here.
So I thought, well, actually, I think you're going to be quite good.
So we've offered her a job.
I don't know her name.
But she's got one sack on her record.
And it was her daughter that sacked her.
Brilliant.
Absolutely brilliant this morning.
I never laughed so much in my life.
It was so funny.
It really was.
Well, what's all this?
Well, she hasn't done this yet.
Well, she hasn't even done this.
And I sat there eating my breakfast thinking, hang on, I need to eat my soup for breakfast just in case I have a hypo.
It was funny.
I tell you now.
So I said, oh, well, come back, come back.
Oh, let's see if I'm free.
I think she'll be back.
I think she'll be back.
I think she'll be good.
Because she was like moving stuff.
She was rearing to get going, guys.
She was rearing to get going, guys.
I could see her.
But I'm so invested now.
Oh, I've never laughed so much in my life.
It was so funny.
And then I had to go then because somebody else blew off down the street.
So I've got to keep checking down there.
Just to make sure stuff doesn't blow away.
Yes.
It's all anyway.
Oh, it's funny.
Anyway.
Right.
So, I think Hayley Thomas is the group now.
She's not going.
She just stepped down as trustee.
She'll still be there working.
One surprise.
She manages the baby bank.
So they're now going to open a baby bank.
So well done.
Because not only have you solidified everything I've said and made yourself look like a bunch of mean girls.
You're actually going to because this morning before I left the house I'd had seven requests for nappies.
Daniel had to stop off and buy some bigger some bigger sizes.
Food bank requests we've added was four.
Other people said I need to come in and use the five eight and top up.
You don't need to ask in advance.
You just go in with that.
Okay.
So with the five eight and top up you just go in the shop.
As long as you're a customer or don't need it.
So with children under 18 you can just take what you want from there.
I keep meaning to take this over to Oh!
Keep your empty perfume bottles for us guys right?
Because we get a minimum pound for that.
Worst case scenario we'll give it away for free.
But people like to collect the perfume bottles.
So don't bin your perfume bottles.
Whatever you do.
Some of these have gone down.
I had a couple of bubbles in.
But I thought well I won't chuck them.
They chuck them to the other shops if they've been used.
And I'm like well how often do you have these tubes?
And the kids go like that and tip them out.
And you're like well that was a waste of three quid.
Yeah.
So you know.
As long as they're not all chewed up and what have you.
They're fine in there guys.
Do you know that was one of my things when I was a kid.
I used to love things like that.
Straws.
Simple little things like that.
So anyway they push in their baby bank.
Crack on.
Absolutely crack on.
And good luck to you.
I've got piles of stuff I can drop off to you.
Not a problem at all.
I don't want any thanks.
Any recognition for it.
Brilliant.
Because you're going to take the pressure off us.
Because I'm losing Sammy 24-7 to making up bundles for people.
You know 50% of those bundles they don't turn up.
So absolutely brilliant.
Crack on and do it.
Not a problem at all.
If a baby bank opened up next door to me I wouldn't bat an eyelid.
I wouldn't bat an eyelid.
Because it means I can get on with more important stuff.
Don't it?
But just for you to be aware,
Jayne's Food Bank fundraising shop.
This is a shop.
This isn't our baby bank.
Because I notice that Nicole Thomas, her daughter, probably on benefits as well.
I expect they've all been on benefits all their life.
All these people, all these kids she's got, are all on benefits.
All incapacitated to work.
One of them's now a teacher.
This one's running her own beauty salon.
How did they get through life before?
When they were claiming all these benefits.
Anyway, that's up to the DWP to decide that one.
They are aware of it.
So all of these items by year are nothing to do with our baby bank.
You know that, don't you?
Our baby bank is kept in the donation centre.
So if we need staff, it's kept in the donation centre.
Okay?
So if we've got a make up bundles, it's kept there.
If I'm short on 3 to 6 clothes, and we haven't got enough to make up a free baby bundle, because the other thing they're trying to say is that the baby bank isn't free.
Or this Nicole is, sorry, nobody else.
Nicole is trying to say it.
The baby bank is free.
We don't charge for any of our note to 12 bundles.
1 to 5, because we do a children's bank as well.
Not just a baby bank.
And when we hardly rave about the children's bank, the 1 to 5, we hardly do it.
We're too busy.
But if I haven't got enough clothes, then I would say, well, take the 3 to 6 off the rail.
Don't worry about the rail.
Just fill up the bundle.
Nappies are free.
Formula is free.
We also have nappies and formula on the 5 item topic, because it's quicker than putting in a request, because you might need your nappies today, put in a request.
I might now get a chance to read it for 24 hours, but the time I get in the donation centre and set it up and get it where it's got to go, you're looking at 72 to, you know, longer, 48 to 72 hours before you get access to it.
Whereas if you use the 5 item top up, it's probably quicker.
But none of this is the baby bank.
You are aware of that.
I know you are aware of it.
I know you guys are aware of it.
But I don't think they are.
The baby bank is free.
And if somebody needed a bouncer or a car seat or something, they can put it in right in what they need and we can give them something more specific.
Hiya, you alright?
But I just wanted to just reiterate for the record that you are not walking into a baby bank.
That is not a baby bank.
You don't get books and teddies and ornaments and jugs and perfume and vases in a baby bank.
That is a shop.
This is where we do our fundraising for the baby bank.
I have to talk to them like this because I think they are thick sometimes.
These are nice.
250.
Oh no, 125 maybe.
125, 125.
Oh no, it's gone again.
My dress has blown off the hanger.
That's how windy it is, see?
That's how windy it is.
It's dreadful.
Right, I've got to go now guys.
I've got a couple of customers.