Cwmderi Diary 2015: 20 August 2015

Debbie has opened the café . . .

Mark and Gwyneth come to the café, where Debbie tells them that Meic would have wanted her to open. When told that that nothing was stolen in the burglary, Gwyneth sympathises that it is not nice when you live on your own.

. . . although Mark thinks she should not have

Mark is convinced that the café should not have been opened, then Madge comes in with flowers for Debbie;

"Sorry to hear about Meic"

“Sorry to hear about Meic,” she says.

Mark insists on taking over, and sends Debbie upstairs to rest;

"A cream cake, please"

Maldwyn comes over to order, “A cream cake.”

"You're not well enough to go to work"

Dani objects when Garry says he is going to the garage to find out about the Health and Safety investigation; “I don’t like the thought of them snooping around,” he tells her. She replies that she does not want him stressed and having another panic attack, and reminds him that frailty is nothing to be ashamed of.

"Leave me alone!"

Garry loses his temper; “I’m not frail! And I won’t get better with you fussing over me! Leave me alone!” She tells him he can look after himself, and walks out.

"I'm off to work"

Gethin is about to leave for work, and Ffion tells him,

"I'm going to the supermarket"

“I’m going to the supermarket today, and next week we can have a day out in Cardiff. I can’t wait to get back to normal again.” She is rather disappointed when Gethin comments that supermarkets have alcohol easily accessible, and she insists,

"If I can resist temptation"

“If I can be somewhere where nobody knows me and can resist temptation . . .”

“What if you can’t!” he asks, “I don’t want you to push yourself too far too soon.”

Ffion is less confident now

Ffion is discouraged, and says that if he does not want her to go, she will not.

"Got a new job?"

Dani comes to the café to find Mark behind the counter;

Kelly takes delight in telling Dani

Kelly cannot resist the temptation to tell Dani about Ffion and the bottle, reporting that Gethin did not take the allegation seriously. “I can’t help being concerned about Arwen,” whines Kelly.

"Are you up to something?"

When Dani has left with her coffee, Gwyneth asks Kelly, “Are you up to something? I wouldn’t make an enemy of Gethin!” but Kelly points out she is not afraid of him.

"I've been lying to you and Ricky"

Debbie quickly comes back downstairs; “I’ve been lying to you and Ricky,” she admits to Mark.

"Where's Dani, then?"

Siôn and Britt visit Garry at the flat, and Britt is surprised that Dani is not there, ministering to him.

"I'm more or less all right"

Garry insists he is more or less all right, so in that case Britt addresses him, “Right then, I want you to forget that loan as thanks to Siôn for saving your life. I think he deserves some thanks!”

"I can't dismiss a sum like that!"

Garry cannot agree; “I understand you want to get rid of the debt, but £15,000? I can’t dismiss a sum like that!”

He is having that breathing problem again

He starts feeling uncomfortable again.

Britt raises her voice; “Come on – if it were not for Siôn, you wouldn’t be here! Helping your family is the least you can do. Without Siôn you would have stopped breathing with all that weight on top of you!”

It is happening again!

By this time, Garry has another panic attack;

"Siôn, go and get Dani!"

Britt sends Siôn to find Dani, while she encourages him to breathe slowly.

"I've come to see if you're drinking again"

Dani walks into Ffion’s flat and rather abruptly says, “I’ve come to see if you’re drinking again – Kelly said she saw you.”

"I was testing myself – and I passed"

Ffion replies that it is none of Kelly’s business – or Dani’s. “I picked up a bottle, and then I put it down again – I was testing myself, and I passed the test!”

"Kelly is stirring again!"

Dani believes her and concludes that Kelly is simply stirring;

"I should be grateful that someone cares"

“I should be grateful that someone cares,” remarks Ffion.

"I was lonely"

Upstairs at the café, Debbie explains to Mark that it was nice being part of a family in London, but when she returned Mark and Ricky were busy and she was lonely. She admits she lied to get their attention, and will pick up her stuff later.

"I should have realised"

However, Mark is not angry with her, but says he should have realised.

Gethin is confronted

Ffion and Dani confront Gethin outside the garage;

"No-one has faith in me!"

Ffion asks, “Why didn’t you say you knew I’d been in the Deri on Tuesday?” Gethin replies that there was no point, as she had come home. “But you thought I’d had a drink! You said you had faith in me! No-one has faith in me!”

Kelly approaches and Ffion tells her, “I’ve got you to thank for all this!”

"I told you to stay away!"

Gethin had already told Kelly to stay away, but she again maintains that Arwen is at risk if Ffion has been drinking.

Kelly stresses that she has “a connection” with Jinx, but Ffion ridicules this;

"You're jealous and malicious!"

“He left you because he could see how jealous and malicious you are and I don’t blame him! Leave my family alone!” She walks off.

"Kelly, the wicked witch of the west"

Kelly comments (in her customary English) “Kelly – the wicked witch of the west!” Dani remarks that she is going to look after Garry, and suggests that Kelly find something else to do.

Garry is much recovered now

Garry, who by now has calmed down, denies that he has had “a funny turn”,

Naturally, Dani is anxious

but when Dani returns, Britt enlightens her. After Siôn has left, Garry explains to Dani what brought on the attack;

Garry explains what happened

“I gave Siôn a £15,000 loan, and they came over to ask me to write off the debt, because Siôn saved my life. I refused and Britt lost her temper – that’s when it happened.”

Britt still is adamant that they deserve the debt to be written off,

"You deserve a few other things!"

but Dani suggests there are a few other things they deserve.

Garry breaks it up

Garry stands between them; “If there’s anything likely to cause another attack, it’s an argument between you two!”

Mark's conscience gets the better of him . . .

When Debbie brings tea and cakes up to the flat, Mark admits, “We all lie once in a while. I lied about something important!

. . . and he explains about Meic

“Gabriella phoned a while ago to say Meic was deteriorating, and that he didn’t want Anita to see him. He asked me to stop her. I didn’t tell you as I didn’t want to upset you – there was nothing you could have done.”

Then he reveals that Diane was also in on the secret;

"So we didn't know how ill he was – but you did?"

Debbie says, “So the two women closest to Meic didn’t know how ill he was, but you and Diane knew?” She orders him to go, as she wants to be alone.

Ffion berates Gethin

Ffion is angry; “You stopped me going out earlier, had doubts about me on Tuesday, but you say you trust me!”

"I knew it was a risk, but I didn't go to the Deri"

Gethin tells her that Kelly told him, but although he knew the risk, he did not go to the Deri.

"You gave me a chance to prove myself"

“You stayed here, worried sick, to give me a chance to prove myself? asks Ffion,

He tells her what he fears

and he replies that he is afraid if she gets too independent, she will no longer need him.

"We're very similar"

Ffion summarises, “So we’re very similar – giving yourself to someone, knowing your existence almost completely depends on them.

"But that's what love is – isn't it?"

“But that’s what love is – isn’t it?”

Megan eulogises Meic

In the Deri, Megan is praising Meic; “He was one in a million, who always tried to do the right thing. Even when he was wrong, his motives were right. He never did anything out of malice.” Kelly and Debbie think of other men who do not measure up to this – Eifion, Siôn, Dai, Hywel.

"Mark is pure honesty"

Then Megan describes Mark as, “Pure honesty, he always tries to do the right thing,”

Debbie is caused to think

which causes Debbie to think.

"What are you worrying about?"

Dani is upset that Garry will not tell her what is troubling him, and after some badgering,

"I don't like to show weakness in front of Siôn"

he admits, “I’m angry with myself for having a panic attack in front of Siôn – I don’t like to show weakness in front of him! He behaves as if he’s better than me, that he has the upper hand.”

"You have the upper hand"

Dani points out, “Siôn’s in debt to you, so you have the upper hand.”

Siôn does not want people knowing

Britt arrives back at the Deri and tells Siôn that Dani now knows about the debt, which displeases him. Britt considers that Dani will make the most of this information.

“We shall have to ask Garry again to write off the debt!” insists Siôn, and when Britt says that they do not want to trigger another attack,

"If we pick the right moment . . ."

he continues, “That’s just the point – he’s weak at the moment and if we pick the right . . .”

"We wait until he's better"

Britt is affronted; “You’re talking about my brother! We wait until he’s better.”

Debbie is in a more conciliatory mood

Debbie goes round to Maes-y-Deri and tells Mark, “I understand you thought you were doing the right thing, and it must have been really hard for you.”

Mark is surprised by her change of mind; “I couldn’t refuse Meic. I’m sorry you got hurt.