Hi guys, I'm not very good with my tuss.
It's really bad.
They can't get me in...
Well, I was in Monday, 2 o'clock, but they've put me through to 9 on Monday now.
So at least they've done that.
And if it gets worse, I've got to go to A&E.
And they'll do it in A&E-like sort of thing.
Emergency Dentist.
But I don't want to wait like 10 hours in A&E.
I'd rather go home and try and sleep through it, you know.
Because it's bad.
So I'm here today.
I'm going to try and stay for the day, you know.
Go at normal time.
But Monday then I'll probably be closed.
And Dan will be open over at Pontypool.
I should imagine.
So we'll do that.
Saturday, I'll try and be in tomorrow.
So both of us try and be open.
Sunday I might not.
Sunday I might not bother.
Dan will be shifting stuff because he got a pile of donations again.
So he'll be shifting stuff.
But perhaps him and my dad will do it on their own, I don't know.
Because it is bad.
And the top of my cheek is starting to be painful now.
Right at the top on the cheekbone.
I could go to sleep now, to be honest.
But I've been taking a lot of painkillers, see.
So I've been knocked out of it a little bit.
So anyway, just to let you know where we are with the tuff.
It's coming out.
It's cracked, right?
Right the way around where the root canal is.
And it's only like the root canal and a tiny bit of tuff holding it in.
I'm like, oh, do you think it'll come out?
I've tried.
It won't even come out.
I'm like, oh, God.
So it might come out over the weekend.
I don't know, innit?
We'll see what happens.
But it's going to be a big one.
It's one of these big molar-type ones at the back.
So it's going to be a big gap.
So anyway, on the group now, there's been a few things they've addressed.
About the blood transfusion.
I've had the blood transfusion.
So I don't know what they're on about.
And I've had previous blood transfusions.
And I've put up evidence of our previous blood transfusions.
Then somebody's changed it to bone marrow transfusion.
And now somebody's changed it on the group that I've got bone cancer.
I have a tumor in my womb, which I've, you know, explained before.
And I have aplastic anemia, which means you don't produce red blood cells on your own.
So every now and again you've got to go in and have a transfusion and things like that.
So why they're now twisting the narrative again is beyond me.
I think there's a couple of businesses in there slagging us off again.
So I think what we're going to do is start posting the slagging off bit.
And who's doing it?
And the business.
Because you're slagging off my business.
Because James Babybank is my not-for-profit business.
So I think that's what we're going to do is put them alongside their business now.
You know, we're broke for a week off.
It's only fair, isn't it?
If you've got an issue with it, pick me the court.
We'll show the judge what you've put up.
There's another lady that said, she asked about, she says...
I couldn't screenshot it.
I don't know where it is.
But my tongue's hurting so I'm not really concentrating.
There's a lady that says she's from Swansea.
And I refused her help from Swansea.
Well, we help every mother in Wales and further afield if you can get to us.
I have posted stuff to Island.
So if there was something you wanted and you couldn't collect it, then I'm not going to be driving all the way to Swansea to help you.
And I think that's pretty reasonable, guys.
I don't know what you think.
I think her comment is unreasonable and I think they are scraping the bottom of the barrel now.
Plus it's an anonymous comment.
There's only one lady I've got on my list that I've asked for help and said she's from Swansea.
And she was looking for a shop.
She said, I wish she'd had a shop in Swansea.
And I said, yeah, I know.
I know.
And it wasn't her.
I asked her just for clarification and she said, no, I haven't posted that.
So nobody from Swansea had messaged me directly and asked for help.
Then the other thing I wanted to address was, we're very strict at giving out stuff like the nappies and all the rest of it.
Now, this is why.
OK, this mother that was online slagging me off last night, throughout the week she's been doing it, she's got milk and you can't see it very well there, but you can see better on the video.
This is a screenshot of the video.
She's in this video slagging me off, but she's got five different milks in her house, right?
And they food bank because they're written on the front of a Sharpie marker.
You can see two there and then
you can see another two here.
And then there's one which is more like a toddler milk, which is off screen.
So that's five milks that I can see, five, five types of milk.
There's more than five there because they're little cartons.
It's probably 20 odd there because of the little cartons, you know.
But that's five brands of milk and they've all got food bank markings on them.
She's only got one child that would have that, do you know what I mean?
But this is why we have to be strict with giving out things like nappies and milk because that could have been five separate children receiving that milk.
But this greedy individual has taken five separate types of milk for herself.
So can you see?
And I mean, this is her own video.
I haven't put this video up.
I'm putting this video up now, but she's chosen to freely video herself with these milks while slagging me off.
And I've checked the dates.
They're in date, you know, according to what's written on them.
I don't know if they're any of ours.
First of all, I thought they were ours.
I thought she's never gone in five times and got five sets off Dan.
But then it was milk in there that we didn't have due to the recall.
So we know what we've checked out, you know, unfortunately, because of the recall.
We've had to check quite a lot out.
But that's five separate types of milk.
That could have gone to helping five mothers and feeding five separate children in there.
So this particular individual, the slagging me off for what I do.
And the volunteers and you guys still slagging you guys off as well, because you guys support us.
Has actually gone and taken five sets of milk for free from different places or one place or different places.
For her own benefit.
And, you know, you can see, can't you?
You can see.
I mean, I've had mothers say, oh my God, I'm desperate for this milk.
I can't just change from this milk to that milk.
This one don't give a damn, does she?
Clearly, she don't give a damn.
Kell, I still got your bag here.
I think it's yours.
I think the day you came, I think I had tusks problems or something.
It started that day and I won a new degree to come in on the Tuesday for your silver bag, you know.
I'm not very good, guys, because I've had to take Tramadol.
I've been quite rough with this tusk.
I couldn't believe it last night when it cracked.
I was eating soup.
I was eating soup sideways, right?
Anyway, and it just cracked.
And Dan was like, well, what did you bite on?
I said nothing.
It was soup.
I was like, oh no.
And it was stuck.
The cracked bit was stuck in between the teeth.
And I was like, how am I going to get this bit out now?
I managed to get it out and then I dropped it and couldn't find it because I thought, oh, super glue the bloody thing back in.
At this point, I don't care, like, you know.
But no, I dropped it and I can't find it.
I don't know where it's gone.
And I was like, oh, so it's rough.
It's cut my tongue because it's just like the silver root canal.
Well, I'm going to glass this on.
Yeah, yeah, that's all right.
Yeah, yeah, I should be...
Like, I'm having a big job because I've got to have a couple of teeth out and I fell in now.
And I don't know whether this is going to be a third tusk or it was the tusk that was coming out.
I can't remember.
So I should be OK, but I'm going to be rough Monday, so it's not even worth me, like, saying I'm going to do anything Monday.
Just take Monday off, I'm going to have to, but at least they're going to see me at nine.
But, of course, the painkillers now have knocked me sideways as well a bit.
But can you see why we have to be really, really strict with people?
And I mean, we're not that strict.
I mean, people come in, they're like, oh, do you want to see my ID?
I'm like, no, I don't want to see your ID.
I got, you know, I've been to all sorts of recording data and nonsense then if I got to see your ID.
Or here's my proof why I need it.
I'm like, oh, I don't care about your proof.
You wouldn't be here asking me, you know, for help if you need it.
You know, I always wanted it so that we had it on a shelf and you'd be able to come in and just pick it up and say, I'm taking these items, you know, with my shopping that I've bought in the shop.
And I said, yeah, not a problem.
But I'm not allowed to do that.
Just to get somebody to tamper with the food and health and hygiene.
So it's got to be kept separately and we've got to pick it for you and put it in the bag because there's less people touching it, obviously.
But I think we're quite laid back.
I think we're really laid back, you know.
And since we've been doing it as five pound bags, you know, our five pound bags have been flying out.
So it's the way it goes sometimes.
You know, I was happy if you had to spend five pounds in the shop on something else and you take the stuff for free.
But, you know, we do it the same as the pantries now and then they can't complain about that.
So the only thing they're complaining about now is me for a change and the state of the shops.
Well, can't help being popular guys, can we?
And the amount of donations we have.
Daniel had somebody in, accused us of being the magic cottage again one day in the week.
And she came in and she put her head up because she knew we'd have CCTV.
I said, Daniel said, I knew she was going to come in and kick off.
He said, because she put her head up.
I said, oh my goodness.
He said, you should have said, hang on, we've got a balaclava up by here.
Do you want that?
She kicked off about the amount of donations we got.
He said, it's absolutely ridiculous.
You're going to burn it down like albacavine.
He said, Daniel said, ah, ah, we're not the magic cottage because we've had that before.
People say we're the magic cottage.
Remember the guy that was outside, you had to go with Daniel and went off down the street and complained to the police.
And the police told him to come back and apologize.
We're not even the magic cottage.
So she kicked off and then Dan said, well, look, there's a sign on the window.
My mom's putting on all the windows saying, we're really sorry.
We're waiting on the warehouse until we get a warehouse.
This is where we're keeping the donations.
You know, we need a second warehouse.
Well, it's not good enough.
It's about time you had a van.
If you want to buy us a van and drive it for us, crack on.
Oh, my God, guys, these people.
I tell you now, right.
But can you see the type of people that we're dealing with that this mother is slagging me off on Facebook?
You know, slagging off the baby bank, slagging off the volunteers, slagging off you guys for supporting us.
Can you see how greedy she is and the type of person she is?
Because that does not faze her at all that she's got five separate types of milk in her house on her own video.
And she's put that on, you know, maybe she's thinking starting her own baby bank.
I don't know.
But she's picked those up from food banks.
But can you see the type of people on that group?
You know, and then they're putting some pictures up now.
Some raunchy pictures of me.
They don't bother me at all.
Makes me look good.
Thank you very much.
Just to disclaim, I don't look like that today on those pictures because I'm rough.
Because I've had to have a trauma doll and my ears in a bun and my chest is hanging out.
Don't want anybody accusing me now of catfishing them today, right?
But this is the type of people we're dealing with, guys, you know.
The type of people that fleeces churches and baby banks and food banks out of five different tubs of milk.
So say they're, I don't know, what are they all about now?
£15?
Say that's £15 each.
The little ones would be cheaper, I would have thought.
And she's only got like one of the little toddler milk.
So save four.
So what's that, guys?
60 quid's worth of milk there, roughly.
50 to 60.
That she's fleeced off people for her own benefit.
So that's why we have to be really strict with it.
And that's why we have to turn some mothers down.
Because some are freeloaders.
You know, it must be awful to...
Well, I've been there myself, even when Daniel was younger.
Do you know what I mean?
I had to buy reduced milk when Daniel was younger.
And the prices weren't half as dear as they are now.
I used to buy reduced milk if I saw it in the shops.
And mix it in with the other one.
Got to do it sometimes as a mother of new guys, you know.
I can understand, like, having one.
And then needing the... you know, having food insecurity.
To having a second one.
As a backup.
I gave one.
I think the lady was from...
I'm not sure if it was the lady from Arbor to Lady or further.
But I give them three the other day.
Because they were ones that we get on a regular basis.
And she's struggling with the product recall.
So she couldn't get the one.
So I gave her three tins every day.
You know.
Because she hasn't got to come running back every week then.
And they bought stuff here.
And they said, we're going to come back and we're going to bring out donations here.
So in the long run, it pays off, doesn't it?
But they had those.
And you know.
And the thing is, we've got a customer for life, haven't we?
A customer and a donator for life.
And we know now that we can help that mother.
And she's struggling because she can't get it because of the product recalls.
And I know I've got a steady stream of it coming in.
But I can understand a mother needing a tin that you're using.
And a tin ready.
On the sideboard.
You know.
Because then you know you've got one that's back up.
But to have five different brands, it's just greed, isn't it?
It's just, it's there.
So I'm going to take it.
And that's...
And when I first started, I was like, oh, you don't see any of this food.
And this baby milk.
On display.
They don't have it on display.
Like you've got to like go in and become a member of these churches.
Or you've got to like go out the back and get it and what have you.
Or they keep it out the back.
And that's why.
Because if people see it, they want it.
And we've done that before.
We've said, put the milk under the counter.
And when they come in and ask, we know what we've got.
And then we can say, oh, yeah, we've got to turn it off for you.
Which is awful, really.
But there's other mothers out there that need it.
And I think, I think that just shows the calibre.
Of person that's on the other group compared to us.
Doesn't it, guys?
If you're taking five different brands of milk for your own benefit.
And then slagging us off.
And then having to get somebody off.
I don't know.
It's either a real person or it's not a real person.
Saying they're from Swansea and I refused them help.
There's no way we've refused anybody help.
What we've said is, well, we're not based in Swansea.
But if you can get to us, we'll do your clothes bundle.
You know, because what are you, what help are you expecting if you live in Swansea from us, the operating Blackwood?
Because we'll give you a note to 12 bundle.
You've just got to pick it up.
If somebody rang me today from, I don't know, Ipswich, Scotland, Exeter.
And said, in England, and said, I need a note to 12 month bundle.
I'd say, as long as you can pick it up, we'll do a few.
If you can get someone to pick it up.
Or if you're down in Wales for the weekend.
And you can pick it up.
Because the note to 12 month bundles are regardless of any household income or your personal standing or anything.
Right?
We do that anyway.
And then we do, mothers in need, one to five year bundles.
Because we don't get so much as the baby stuffing of the older clothes.
So there's no point me saying a nine and ten.
Because I very rarely get a full basket full of ten year clothes in.
So we say age one to five.
Sorry if I'm a bit like...
I think you can understand me.
I'm not sure.
But I've had Tramadol.
So you might not.
I had the Tramadol last night before the eight to start.
That I'm in charge of a baby bank on Tramadol.
I probably wouldn't take one now because I'd fall asleep.
So at the age one to five we have less clothes.
And people come in and they want to buy those clothes more frequently.
Because that's when the price starts to go up.
Buying them new.
Then we say, well, mother's in need.
So that we can control how much we're giving out, you know.
But I don't ask for proof of your need.
It's very rare do I say, can I have proof of your need?
I usually say, can you put it in writing?
So I've got a record for my due diligence and my records to say yes.
So and so asked.
I'll use Sammy as an example because she's already gone to the newspaper and given her story.
Sammy, I hadn't met her.
I said, can you put it in writing?
She put it in writing.
She came in.
And we'd given her the nappies I had.
Because the nappies that she needed were specific type.
Because little one used to get a rash.
Which I know that because we get a couple of mothers with it.
And they all describe it the same.
So I know nobody's taking the mick when they say that.
I never had that with Dan.
He was always touch wood.
Never had any problems with Dan at all.
So she came in.
She brought little one in a pram.
And she brought in a bag of donations as well.
I can't remember what they were.
I think they were toys.
All nice stuff.
And she'd done me a letter.
And that was the first time I'd met.
And I said, right, I've done you a bag.
I said, the only thing I haven't got is the nappies.
I said, because we didn't have any in stock.
But then the following day, I think we had the Tesco vouchers.
Might have been the boots vouchers.
I can't remember.
Because I got a funny feeling.
I went down to Boots when it was still in Pontypool.
And I went and got her two packs of the nappy brand that she needed to stop little one from having the rash.
And then I messaged her again and said, I've got some nappies for you.
Pop into Pontypool and grab them.
And I didn't see her then.
And then that's why she started volunteering for us.
Because we helped her.
And I said, if you need any more, let me know.
But I didn't ask for any proof.
All I asked was a letter saying that you need help.
And what you need.
So I can justify why we've got out and spent our vouchers or spent a bit more on it, you know.
Which I only need to do because of the haters.
Because they're like, oh, they're getting the money.
And I know what they're like.
So yeah, I think that's really bad that she's taken that milk.
And like I said, the girl from Swansea.
We wouldn't have said no.
What we would have said is you need to get her to pick it up.
Or somebody pick it up for you.
And we'll still help you.
And then there's a guy on there posting something now.
And he's got a taxi business.
And I'm like, well, let's start posting them now.
They're in their businesses next.
So I'm going to see how they like it in there.
What are they going to do?
Can you see them taking me to court?
They ring the police.
And the police, they say, oh, she's...
I'm on this group.
I've slagged her off.
And she's put a picture of my business on there.
And the police will turn around and they'll say, number one, stop slagging her off.
Number two, be civil.
Bye.
Put the phone down on them.
Won't they?
So...
But they're quick enough to attack us, aren't they, guys?
You know, I think it's getting ridiculous now.
But the other thing is, I don't think they've done themselves any favors by all collaborating in one group because they're all bouncing off each other.
And you can see how nasty and vile and horrible they are.
And how vindictive they are.
It's good for me because I've got them all in one place.
But I think it's been bad for them because you can see how petty and dreadful they're being.
And like, you know, you've got this particular mother being righteous and screaming and shouting about me.
And then she's got all this milk hoarded up in her house.
You know?
Oh, and then somebody else said to Daniel, I was a hoarder.
I'm not a hoarder.
If somebody came in now and bought that sign, they'd be gone.
Right?
If somebody came in now and said, I want to buy all them books, I'd say, go on, Tra.
Right?
A hoarder would be like...
Oh, no, I can't have that.
I can't have that.
Oh, no, I can't sell it out.
I think a lot of it is jealousy.
We put everything on display.
We're a little bit too honest.
And I think maybe going forward, once we get the other two warehouses, I think going forward, perhaps what we need to do is not have the donations on display.
Because then they can't see what we're being given and they can't get irate over it, can they?
And we've already got a planning place to try and stop so much coming in the shops.
We just need to do it on a bigger scale.
Don't we?
Right, so I'm going to go now, guys, because I'm a tough surgeon.
I've got some chicken pasanda with me.
No rice, just the chicken and the pasanda.
Let's see if I can get that sideways.
See how I get on with that in there.
But I'm going to try and get through till four and tomorrow the same.
But I'll let you know tomorrow if I'm in or not.
But Saturday we usually do quite well.
Oh, and don't forget now we've released the location because the haters found out about it.
I knew they would.
But we did it to have a little bit of suspense and to build up to it, you know.
They already know at the miners not to take any phone calls off them, not to take any cancellations, any complaints off them.
They already know.
It's Caerphilly Old Miners Hospital.
And I'm looking for somewhere nice now in Torfaen.
I might have somewhere in mind, but I don't know if it's going to work.
I found one place which I like, but I don't think it's got a lift.
If the second one have got a lift, I might go with it.
But I don't know how it will work out.
But I want to have nice venues.
I want to do something nice when we have it.
You know, it's nice to go somewhere a bit different than the shops.
And we're going to have a jewellery table here now and the Pokemons.
Because the Pokemon is only like a tin full in a carrier bag.
And so that's like one table of Pokemon stuff.
And then a jewellery table as well.
Because the thing is, they might come with their friends and they might come with their mothers or the grandmothers might come with them.
But I think the clothes, right, the clothes are only going to be 0-12 months.
The ones we're giving out for free.
There might be a few older ones if they've snuck in by accident.
But I'm not going to take like 1-5.
Perhaps what we might do is another event with older children's clothing.
Because we have got a few building up.
So I could pool them all together from age 1 to like 5 or 10 teenagers.
And then we could do another event, couldn't we?
But we'll have a look, we'll have a look.
Let's get this one out of the way first and see how it goes.
I could do in numbers.
But just pop in and say hello.
Come in and see us in here.
Come in and have a cup of tea.
See us.
You don't have to buy nothing and you don't have to take anything for free either.
It's entirely up to you.
Right, so I'm going to go now guys.
I might try my chicken pasanda now.