6 January 2015

Dai and Diane visit Meic

Dai and Diane visit Meic, and Dai complains of his terrible pain;  

They are invited to a "meal" on Tuesday

as they leave, Meic invites them for a meal on Tuesday at lunchtime.   Anita says, “I’m not telling you where, but it will be nice!” 

Meic has his will documentation

Then Meic tells Anita that Mark and Gabriella are picking him up to go to Carmarthen about his will, and warns her that she will have her work cut out as executor.

Eifion prepares for the work ahead

Dai and Diane arrive home to find Eifion deploying dust sheets in the lounge and Angela there to make sure he pulls his weight.   

Dai enjoys his supervisory rôle

Dai gloats, “He’ll lose half his body weight doing this job!   I could get used to this, ordering everyone around,” and asks Diane for tea and Garibaldi biscuits.

Anita has found a flight home for Darren . . .

Darren comes in as Anita is looking at flights to Canada, discovering that Friday has the cheapest fares;  

. . . but Darren is determined he is not going

he is insistent that he cannot go back, and asks why Dad has gone out with Mark and Gabriella.   Anita replies, “Business – his business.”

Dai’s voice is heard from on high, reminding Diane to put down dustsheets in the kitchen;  

"Not a moment's peace . . ."

“Not a moment’s peace, even when he’s on the toilet,” despairs Diane.

Suddenly, without warning, Eifion starts deploying the sledgehammer;  

"Stop – you can't do that to a load-bearing wall, you idiot!"

Diane dashes into the lounge to stop him, 

Diane gives him a piece of her mind

warning that they have to support the beam before doing that.   She warns Dai, upstairs, that the stairs are unsafe and he cannot come down.   He is predictably very angry, and orders Eifion to get Jim round there immediately.

Debbie wants to know what is going on

Mark’s car returns, carrying Meic and Gabriella;  Debbie wants to know where they have been and what they were doing.   

Darren's temper is beginning to inflame . . .

Darren is washing up when they enter the house, and when Meic tells him they have visited the solicitor to sort out a few things, he becomes angry.

". . . she wants your money!"

“Was she there to make sure she got her share of the money?   Where’s your sense, Dad?   She knows what she’s doing – she wants your money!   Let me guess – you’ve included her in your will!”

"There's no favouritism here!"

Meic tells him that she is simply getting what she deserves;  “There’s no favouritism here!”

"You want my father's money – the children's money!"

Darren continues his torrent of invective against Gabriella;  “You turn up here, wanting my father’s money – the children’s money!   I’m not going anywhere while she’s around!”   Picking up his jacket, he storms out.

Mark is questioned by Debbie

In the café, Debbie grills Mark about the errand, “The secret mission!”   When Mark reveals that Meic went to his solicitor, Debbie is off again:  

"Has he changed his will?"

“I knew it!   She went in with Meic?   Has he changed his will?”

"You ought to move out for a while"

Jim installs an Acrow prop to support the wall, but warns Dai not to come downstairs;  he also tells them they will have to move out for a while.   DJ can stay at Penrhewl, but Diane insists she is not paying for a hotel.   “Stay with Eifion and Angela then,” suggests Jim.   

He dissuades Diane from calling the fire brigade to rescue Dai, and goes to fetch a ladder, so Dai can escape through the bedroom window.   Meanwhile, Dai is making all kinds of threats against Eifion.

Anita tells Darren a thing or two

Anita reproves Darren for his attitude, behaving like that toward his sister.   “I’m disappointed in you, arguing about money like that in front of your father, as if he were already dead!   Meic is glad he has a daughter, and you can’t blame him for that.   She makes him happy and nothing you say will change that.   You’ll push him away if you carry on like this!   

"It's breaking his heart!"

“You fighting like cat and dog is breaking his heart!”

"She has come between us!"

In the café, Angela listens to Debbie bewailing the fact that she does not matter to Meic any more.   “He doesn’t talk to me, Gabriella is everything to him;   she has come between us, and she thinks Mark is hers!   Everyone thinks the sun shines out of her backside;  she’s up to something – what if she wants half the café?   Why else go to the solicitor?   

"Should I shop her?"

“She’s staying here illegally – should I shop her?”

Angela advises against this, as Meic would never forgive her, and just then, Jim comes in, announcing with a smirk, 

Jim seems to think it is quite amusing

“There’s a nice surprise waiting at home – you’ve got new lodgers – Dai and Diane!”   He advises her to start thinking what to cook, as Dai eats even more that he does.

It appears they both want peace

Darren comes back in, having been doing some thinking;  Gabriella pleads with him not to argue, and he apologises, saying that they should at least be civil with each other.   

"I'm not interested in Meic's money!"

She emphasises that she does not want Meic’s money, but was so happy when she learned about her father, and so shocked when she found out about his illness.

Darren tells her that his father was not around when he was growing up, so they have something in common.   

It looks as if they have buried the hatchet

They seem to be reconciled.

"Your boyfriend is a liability!"

Dai and Diane descend upon Angela’s house, with all their luggage;  Diane complains that Dai had to throw her clothes out of the bedroom window;  “Your boyfriend is a liability!”.   

"I shouldn't be prancing in and out of windows!"

Dai argues that he should be in bed, “Not prancing in and out of windows like a burglar, assisted by Fireman Jim!”

"Eifion will be doing the cooking!"

Angela tells them not to worry about the cooking;  “Eifion will be doing that – and anything else you want.”   Dai immediately asks, “Have you got any Garibaldis?”

Yes, definitely a thawing of relations

Meic and Anita come back, pleasantly surprised to find Gabriella and Darren amicably looking at old photos, 

Darren is going back to Canada . . . 

and Darren announces he has decided to go back to Canada on Friday.   

. . . and he apologises for his behaviour

Gabriella goes upstairs, and Darren tells his mother and father he is sorry for the way he behaved;  he now realises that Meic has good people looking after him.

"You're welcome in Canada any time!"

Gabriella returns with gifts from Patagonia for Wil and Alys;  Darren tells her, “You’re welcome in Canada any time!”