Oh, thank god it's Friday.
That's the feeling I've got today.
Um, yeah, so thank god it's Friday.
Um, I've been fairly quiet today, but I've got a bit more done.
I don't know about Dan.
Um, I think he sold quite... I think he said he sold three of those bags today.
How many did he say he had left?
Was it eleven?
Oh, I can't remember now.
He might have sold more anyway.
They are the ones from the airport.
They're good stuff.
I wouldn't... you know that.
I would tell you.
I always tell you.
I said, that's a bag of rags.
That's only worth, you know, three for a tenner.
They're all worth ten pounds.
You know I'll tell you if they're rubbish.
So, I'm not sure how much he's... because we've nearly emptied the pound shop room now.
So, I think any straggling clothes, we'll still do two for a fifty on them ones.
Our normal pound ones.
Um, but for the time being then, there won't be any cheap clothes in Pontypool because that was our room, wasn't it?
We had that one room.
Um, getting that in there.
Never mind.
It's got to be done, haven't it?
You know, if you'd seen the water that was coming through, right?
I couldn't even lift the box.
Sammy had to lift the box of water out because I couldn't even lift it.
Um, luckily we had plastic boxes to hand and luckily I think most of it have come down on the stairs this time.
Um, where it avoided the clothes because you could imagine what have happened.
But the trouble is that, you know, a lot of people have come in and yes, they've been haters and they've gone with smells in it, smells in it.
And maybe we're a bit... it's always had a musty smell.
It's over a hundred years old, you know.
Even older I think than that.
But maybe something got a bit damp with the rainwater coming in, you know.
Um, but it's got to be empty for people to work in.
So we knew it was coming.
So now is the time to be working on roofs.
Now the weather's better.
So we've got to get it done.
Um, well we haven't, luckily.
That's the good bit, isn't it?
About not owning and just renting.
Ah, yes.
So there we are.
I think he said he sold three straight away when he came in.
So I think he took thirty on them straight away.
I think he said something about when he got in.
He'd done like thirty-three.
So I think he'd sold something and done three of those airport bags.
But there's not many of them left.
But they're not in bags.
Obviously we've taken them out to the suitcases because I have to see what was in them.
Because I don't know how long the stuff's been in them, do I?
Um, and it could have had mouldy old sandwiches in there, couldn't it?
On your way back from Ibiza and all the stuff you've stolen from the buffet to eat on the plane could have been in the suitcases, couldn't it?
Um, I couldn't turn that down.
Honest to God, if you'd have seen me with these.
Sue comes to my house with some stuff, right?
One of her flexi balls and one of her friends, you know.
And I could see her at the door and I couldn't even get past to shift the stuff like.
I was surrounded by these suitcases.
So we've filed the suitcases because suitcases always sell well.
Some we've had to break into, others they've been easy enough, you know, we haven't damaged them.
Um, I think we lost about seven with the suitcases.
Um, they're good.
Some as big as that.
So you can imagine how many clothes we had.
I said to Dan, we can't put them in any shop.
They got to go.
I said, so as soon as you turn up in the morning, just put them outside.
So that's what he's been doing.
So thank you very much.
We've sold quite a few of those bags.
There was loads in there.
That was only the clothes because I thought I got to get rid of these clothes because we've got nowhere.
Because obviously we've lost the pound shop room.
Otherwise it'd probably gone straight up there.
And we'd have probably made more by doing that because we do fill a carrier bag for 250, don't we?
Uh, for five pound usually.
And then if it's on offer it's 250.
So anyway, we've got, but there was sunglasses.
I've taken out hats.
I mean, if it looks like a pound hat that you've bought like off the lucky lucky man, then I've checked it in, you know.
Um, if it looks like it's a sports one or something, because sometimes caps go quite well, like a reader's one or something.
And then I've put it in the boutique.
So we, I can't remember how many bags for boutique, but I had to go very quickly.
Because we didn't really have the weather.
We only had a couple of nice days this week to do it.
And I was doing most of it outside.
And I've literally gone...
Like this.
So I'm pleased with that because most of them have gone.
Um, we could have got a lot more, but sometimes it's good for you guys to have a really good deal as well in this.
So, um, I'm glad the bike's old because that's out of the way now.
Um, that is in the wash.
I've got to remember to bring it because I've got two walkers, a pink one and this gray one.
And we had to wash the seat.
It was a bit minging.
Um, I think I got a bag of rags here that are free, you know, they can go.
Um, oh, I had to bring in my, um, pants and bra wall of my little washing line thing.
My little air thing when the school children come home because I had to shout to two boys, two groups of boys separately that were being a bit odd around my bra.
So if they come home and say, that woman in our shop shouted at me.
Yes.
Because they were about to do something odd with my bras and my pants.
So make a mental note, put the bras and pants in before the school children go past, right?
But I've sold two or three off there today, which there's no way we would have sold those if they'd have been in the box.
So I think I've sold probably about three to four pounds worth on pants.
Isn't that stupid?
Pants and socks, like, um, that's crazy because there's no way they would have if they were left in the yellow box.
There's still some in the yellow box now, but, you know, and then another lady was looking at the bras, but she had to go.
So she might come back.
So fingers crossed.
But they fit quite nicely out there.
So I think Pontypool and Cavitee will be open tomorrow.
Sunday is Mother's Day in here, but we have got stuff to do.
I'll say how I feel.
Because I am feeling so good again.
We got an eye pore the one night.
I'm right.
It's all had a bit of an eye pore.
A bit of hormonal as well.
And I don't tend to help do it.
Well, this is another thing I've noticed with the allergies is when I'm hormonal, the allergies seem to kick in.
Do anybody else have that with the menopause?
I don't know.
So, yes, and then I spoke to the GP this morning.
They've got to do another.
I got to go back in, I think the 13th of April, I think.
Yeah.
To have some more blood tests.
And if they're still low, I got to go back in for another blood transfusion and another eye infusion.
So, and then they'll do some more investigations, they said.
But...
I'm shattered.
I'm shattered.
That's all I've done all week is work clothes.
And I... clothes are not my favourite to work.
I've got to be honest.
I like the bric-a-brac.
But... that's all I've done.
All week.
And I literally like just... it could have been kids clothes, it could have been adults clothes.
It just went... so they were like a proper mixture.
But people who bought bags came back.
Which was good, so that was good.
And I sold one mystery box here to a new guy that came in.
And you could see him out in his car rummaging through it, throwing it round his boot.
And he came back in and he bought the other three.
So I think I got six ready for tomorrow.
Mystery boxes.
I do put a load of stuff in them because I think we've got so much at the moment.
And I mean, really, the mystery boxes, I could be charging five to six, seven pounds for them.
But... three pounds.
Let's get them going in there.
But I've got to rely on good boxes, see.
They're a bit too small.
But then again, I've probably got about ten, fifteen items in there.
I could do with like a bit bigger, but strong, we need them.
So the mystery boxes have gone well.
If anybody's got any postage bags they don't want, can we have them?
Because I might do mystery bags and bring the price down as well.
Shattered now.
Been a busy, busy two weeks this has been.
Fair play.
And if you're not feeling too good in there, I can take it out of you a bit.
But look at the sun.
That's what we need now in here.
Sun, sun, sun, guys.
That's what we get there now all, all through in here.
I don't know what the heaters are up to.
I haven't seen what they're up to.
We'll have a look perhaps Sunday.
Screenshot it all and send it all through to our police officer that's dealing with it.
Beyond in there, guys.
Yeah, so I've had a few people message me and you know, if it's upsetting you and you're worried about us, the best thing for you to do is contact the police.
Do it on 101 or do it via the email and say that it's not on.
Because it's not just me as the volunteers.
It's my parents, my auntie and uncle are on them.
They don't do anything.
Right, you know, it's not just me.
It's anybody.
It's any business that want to work with us or put their name to it.
So if you see any of it, you know, report it to Facebook.
Best you can do because that's what the police have said.
They can write to Facebook.
They've said they can contact Facebook.
But it's quicker if our followers report the group.
Don't even bother commenting in there, guys, because they won't post it.
So don't worry about it.
And then just report it to the police.
You know, Hanna has put down the list of names and their charity numbers and everything else that's on there.
Okay, report it to the Charity Commission.
Ask the Charity Commission to look into it.
You know, because if the Charity Commission finds something, they can also report it to the police as well, you see.
So do that, guys.
Do that.
What did they do this week?
What were they doing this week?
I can't remember now what they've reported us for this week.
I don't know.
I think they were contacting the Environmental Health about something.
And the Environmental Health were like, oh, my God.
Go away, like, you know.
What else did they do?
We had that one, didn't we?
One who wanted to volunteer out of the blue after two years of asking and never turning up.
And what else was it?
What else had happened?
Oh, I meant to tell you this, and then she'd started.
So I'm sat there now, minding my own business in the middle of the night, like, and all of a sudden I start getting these messages now off another lady, fake profile, that one of the other charities has reported for bullying her as well.
Right?
Oh, surprise, surprise.
Right?
Surprise, surprise.
She's always the injured party, isn't she?
However, I was quite suspicious about it.
And then I had another account that you could see was a fake account messaging me.
I'm thinking, oh, my God, do I look like I've got time for these idiots?
Saying, oh, yes, she's awful.
This person has done this.
This person has done that.
That person has done this.
And I'm like, well, report it then, if you're not happy with her.
No, well, they wanted me to do because at the moment, I expect the police are saying, well, we've got two individuals by here saying that you're picking on them and reporting them left, right and centre for stuff.
And you're saying they're doing the same.
It's funny how there's two saying there's one.
But what they wanted me to do was take it out on that other woman that is one of my customers.
She's one of my good customers.
Good supporter, good customers.
And that's what they wanted.
That's what they wanted to do.
They thought I was thick enough to fall for that being that other person.
That is also putting an harassment and bullying.
And I'm not sure if that's the lady that had her nose broke, blood all over her face from the person who runs the charity.
And I knew it straight away because I'd sent her my screen shot and I sent it straight over.
I got the Facebook IDs, everything.
And they were like, deleting the messages in the chat straight away.
I was like, yes, you bitches, I got you.
Got to get up early in the morning to catch me out, that's for sure.
Yeah, delete, delete, delete the messages.
And they'd be like, oh, what are you screen shotting the messages for?
Oh, that means you're on an iPhone then.
We've identified whenever you've got an iPhone.
I said, just in case you delete them.
What you doing?
I forgot to tell you that because there may be other issues then with bloody bring my pet to work day.
Shoot, ridiculous that wasn't it?
I'm so glad though, because imagine if I just said, yeah, come in and volunteer with somebody who was really vulnerable, right?
I mean, I wouldn't have left her on her own first week anyway, you know that.
But, did you see how quick her personality changed?
And I could have put her with a vulnerable person.
She could have been on the shop floor with a mother that's come in.
They could have been vulnerable, and children.
Do you see how quick she snapped like that?
I mean, we give her everything she wanted.
She wanted to come in and volunteer.
Come in, volunteer, do what you like.
Bring your dog, you know.
Bring your sister's auntie's mother's brother, twice removed from Pennsylvania, if you like.
We give her everything she wanted, and she still snapped like that, didn't she?
I'm so glad.
So glad we never ever had her.
Never had her.
So yes, anyway, I passed them over to the other lady, and the other lady have contacted the police to say they contacted Jane, pretending they were me.
Jane has said that I can make this complaint and use her screenshots.
Obviously I've made a complaint as well.
That I think it was them.
And, you know, I'll tell you what's going to happen before long, is they're going to start seizing their devices.
That's what's going to happen.
Because the only way, I mean, it's like being in a playground with kids, it's like as if they've never grown up and left school, have you noticed?
They're like, aren't they like the horrible, you know the horrible bunch of mean girls?
They're like that, aren't they?
You know?
Remember them in school?
The horrible ones.
They were the horrible ones, I can tell you that.
So yeah, I think that's what's going to happen now, is they're going to have to start seizing their devices because they're going to have to start proving who's sending what out.
But it was so obvious what they were saying.
And the one person, like I'm guessing who the one person was, but the one person I know who you are because of the way you said something to me, and I thought yeah, you're sticking your two pen up for everything again, you know.
I did warn you about that, but you wouldn't listen.
But there we are.
So yeah, that happened.
So I had like, must have been like 50, 60 messages off these people.
Pretending to be this woman that they're harassing as well, and the one that they've assaulted and broken nose and you know, they've actually physically and we know they assault people because they assaulted the paedophile, didn't they?
So we know that's not a one-off slip of the wrist.
Isn't it?
We know that's not a slip of the wrist.
I can't believe I will.
I swear it was those prawns.
Absolutely swear it was those prawns.
And I didn't even eat them.
It was prawn toast.
And I picked it up, gave it to the cats.
I know I didn't wash my hands after.
Like an idiot.
I knew in my head I shouldn't even be touching them, right?
Oh, and I got an allergy test.
But I can't believe it.
I was so ill.
I can't believe like after all the assassination attempts I've had.
I nearly got taken out by a prawn toast.
Can you believe it?
I was astate, but I can even my throat was going down as soon as I took the anti-estimina.
Oh my god.
Right, I think I'm going to start packing up guys.
Thank you for everybody who came in yesterday with the rain.
That was awful.
And thank you to everybody who came in today.
And we'll see you tomorrow on Happy Mother's Day.
And don't forget we've got a Mother's Day competition.
So once they bring their cards home.
I'll give them to your cards now on Sunday.
I'll give them today.
Put them on the thing.
You don't need the children.
Just the cards or the pictures or whatever they've made.
Put it on there and we'll do some sort of competition for them.