2 June 2015

Mark has a mystery parcel

Mark arrives at the farm carrying a parcel with no address, only the postcode;  Cadno tells him she is not expecting anything, and neither is DJ.   

"Where's the Quad Bike?"

Then Cadno asks, “Where’s the Quad Bike?   Have you left it in a field?”   When DJ replies that he brought it back yesterday, she is sure that it has been stolen.

Darren contacts Anita via CnocCnoc

Anita is contacting Darren on her iPad;  “Has the parcel arrived safely?” he enquires, but she tells him she has seen no parcel.

Cadno reports the theft

Cadno reports the theft to the police, but is doubtful whether they will turn up.   

"I brought it back as usual"

DJ describes how he brought the Quad back, and hung up the keys when he came in for a cup of tea.   

Cadno is not placated

Cadno is angry, and says she will ask around to see if anyone knows anything.

Dai is stocktaking

Dai is stocktaking when Mark comes into APD to ask if he has ordered anything;  

Dai suggests opening the parcel

Dai thinks it would be a pity to take it back to the depot and wants to see if the contents are of any interest, but Mark refuses.

"You don't trust me!"

When Gwyneth arrives she asks, “Why are you stocktaking?   I did it yesterday.   I know, you don’t trust me – I’m stealing from the till or selling stock on the sly!”

An ominous stranger scares Dai

Just then, Dai sees someone come into the shop and hides;  the stranger asks Gwyneth where he can find Dai Ashurst.   She answers that Dai is out on a job and could be a long time, but the stranger says that he will wait.

"What kind of low-life would steal a Quad Bike?"

Sioned is selecting vegetables outside the shop, and hears Colin remark to Cadno, “What kind of low-life would steal a Quad Bike?”   Sioned turns and expresses surprise at what has happened, assuring Cadno that she did not see anything suspicious when she was there.   

Ed hears what has happened

Ed has joined the group and looks concerned.

"Dai stole the job from me!"

When Gwyneth tells her visitor that Dai could be hours, he explains, “I want a word with him about Cwrtmynach village hall – he stole the job from me and cost me a lot of money!”

Gwyneth soon sorts him out and escorts him to the door

Gwyneth quickly puts him in his place;  “APD won that contract fair and square!   Dai agreed to do it cheaper as a favour to the community.    

"Get your facts right!"

“Get your facts right before accusing people!” and she forcibly ushers him out of the shop.

Dai comes out of hiding

Dai rapidly emerges from his hiding-place and congratulates Gwyneth;  

"You're a heck of a woman!"

“I’ve never seen anyone deal with Aled Ffos Isaf like that!   You’re a heck of a woman!”   Gwyneth calls the man a bully and reminds Dai that people like that are the enemies of APD, not her.   Dai’s excuse for running away is that he cannot trust himself in situations like that;  “I might have given him a slap!”

They only have two names at the moment

Colin comes in to report to Dai that he has two supporters for his nomination to the council, and Dai resolves to tackle customers at the Deri.   

Gemma is feeling sorry for herself

Then Gemma puts in another unwelcome appearance;  Dai describes her as “looking awful”.   She has a cold and complains that there is no food or paracetamol in the house;  “I need some TLC,” she whines.

Gwyneth smiles at Dai's comment

Dai replies, “Yes, well, we only sell MDF!” and tells her that APD is closing for lunch.   “The best thing you can do is go home!   Call in the shop for tablets on the way.   You shouldn’t spread your germs around the village!”

Anita thinks it is her parcel . . .

At the Deri, Mark brings in the parcel, and Anita assumes it must be her surprise from Darren.   

. . . and is pleased when she opens it

She opens it and discovers bottles of what appears to be expensive wine.   She invites Mark to join her later for some wine-tasting.

Dai must keep the matter from Diane

Dai advises Colin he must be careful who he gets to sign the nomination;  “Once Diane finds out, she’ll castrate both of us!” he ominously predicts.

"I feel so guilty!"

Sioned is on the phone;  “It’s all over the village – I wouldn’t have done it if I knew I’d feel so guilty!”   

Sioned invents a reason for her phone call

Then Ed walks in and so she makes up a tale of it being some cheapskate wanting a taxi to Cardiff Airport for £20.   Ed remarks, 

"Isn't it a bit of a coincidence?"

“You didn’t say you’d been up to Penrhewl yesterday.   Isn’t it a bit of a coincidence?   I don’t know anyone else who has been stealing cars – except Garry Monk.  ”

“Do you think I’d steal from my own family,” Sioned demands, enraged, but Ed replies that she has done worse in the past, and suspects that she feels guilty.   She challenges him to ring the police, but he will not do anything to risk their relationship.   

Sioned, looking scared

He hugs her, but he looks very suspicious and she looks decidedly scared.

The wine-tasting evening gets off to a good start

Mark and Anita taste the wine, and Mark says the taste reminds him of gooseberries – and lemon meringue pie.   

Anita is impressed by the connoisseur

Anita consults the label, to find that his evaluation is remarkably accurate.   Later, when they move on to the Bordeaux, the smell reminds him of his old granny’s dresser, and the label mentions, “Matured in oak for one year,” so he considers himself somewhat of a connoisseur.

Cadno has found no leads to the theft . . .

Cadno returns to the farm in a bad mood, as she has no leads on the theft, and the police have not even been.   

. . . and she ridicules DJ's poster

When DJ show her his handmade posters, she shouts, “We haven’t lost a cat – it’s a £6,000 Quad!   I might as well do everything myself, as usual!”

They are having an enjoyable evening

After all the wine, Mark and Anita are getting rather inebriated, and play some party games;  then Mark asks, “If you only had twenty-four hours to live, what would you do?”

She still wants to be with Meic

She immediately replies, “I’d fly to Buenos Aires, then on to Patagonia to find Meic, and spend every minute with him.”   The room goes very quiet.

Gemma is not convinced by Colin's spiel

Colin is trying to sell himself as a councillor to Gemma, saying, “I want to fire the imagination of the young people.”   She simply remarks that Debbie is younger than him.

"I'm feeling worse – I want to go home!"

Then she moves to the bar, where she tells Gwyneth, “I’m feeling worse – I want to go home.”

“No–one’s stopping you!” replies Gwyneth, but Gemma wails, “I don’t want to go on my own.”    

"Come home with me – now!"

Then her voice takes on a more threatening tone;  “Come home with me – now!   Or maybe I shall find it difficult to keep your dirty little secret – telling me to get rid of Dani.”

Gwyneth tells her, “You know I didn’t do that, and anyway, you’ve got too much to lose!”

"They would never let you near Gwern again!"

Gemma snarls, “Not as much as you!   I haven’t got a child!   With your record, the authorities would never let you near Gwern again!”

1 June 2015

Ffion consults the laptop . . .

Ffion, in her dressing gown, is looking at the laptop when Jinx comes in with Arwen;  she tells him it is schoolwork, 

. . . and Jinx finds what she was looking at . . .

but when she goes for a shower he checks and finds a page entitled “Child Residence — know your rights.”   

. . . while Ffion finds his book

She in turn finds a book in his room, “The Custody Minefield.”

As they argue, she says, “We might not be able to stand each other, but surely we should be able to show some respect,” and Jinx retorts, “What’s that?”   

Jinx is concentrating on Arwen

She assures him that she and Gethin have finished, but Jinx considers that does not make much difference.

In the garage, Garry has a phone call, asking about the quad bike, 

"Sorry, your car's not finished"

then Anita comes in to collect her car, 

Gethin gets the blame . . .

and Garry blames Gethin for it not being finished.   When Dani arrives, she admonishes Garry for being so hard on Gethin, 

. . . but Dani standsup for her love-sick brother

“What if you were heart-broken, and had the boss screaming at you?”   

Garry replies sarcastically, “Poor dab!   He can have the rest of the day off!”   Gethin wastes no time in removing his overalls and going.

"Anita will be covering your shifts"

Hywel calls to see how Jinx is, and to inform him that Anita will be covering his shifts at CwmFM for the next week, just to make it easier for him.   Jinx is furious;  

Jinx is angry

“There’s nothing wrong with me – I’m not ill!” he insists, “And you’ve  arranged all this behind my back!   Get lost, Hywel!”

"My customer is starting to lose patience!"

In the Deri flat, Garry tells Sioned that his customer is starting to lose patience, and he suspects that she is getting cold feet.   

Sioned reckons she has it all under control

She, however, has concluded that no-one at Penrhewl will lose out, as the insurance will pay for the loss.

She explains her plan to Garry

   “I’ve got plans – today is market day, so Cadno and DJ will be out, and Auntie Marian is at the Bethania Coffee Morning.   The Quad keys are in the kitchen, and they never lock the door, so I’ll get the keys, leave them in the ignition, and you can go up later with the trailer and finish the job.   It’s easy!”

DJ Anita is at work in CwmFM . . .

As Anita introduces another song on CwmFM, Jinx arrives;  “I’m in the middle of a programme,” she says, 

. .  . when a belligerent Jinx walks in . . .

and he snarls, “My programme!”

. . . and almost comes to blows with Hywel

Hywel appears, and gets into an argument with Jinx – it appears they may resort to violence, but Jinx then turns and leaves.

Dani administers a head massage to Gethin, as she says it will relieve his stress and rid him of the toxins in his body.   

"What would you do?"

When Gaynor comes in to talk to Sheryl, Dani takes Gethin off to the café.   “What would you do if your husband refused to sign the divorce papers?” demands Gaynor.

"Hywel has been very busy!"

Sheryl gives excuses that Hywel has been very busy, but Gaynor points out that it only takes a second to sign his name.   “You have no idea what’s going on,” she tells Sheryl,

"What else could he be hiding?"

“I remember that feeling;  if he’s not honest with you about this, what else could he be hiding?”   Sheryl insists there are no secrets between Hywel and her.

Sioned purloins the keys . . .

Sioned walks into Penrhewl and helps herself to the keys, but is disturbed by Cadno, returning for her phone.   

. . . is disturbed by Cadno . . .

Sioned says she has come to see Marian, forgetting about the Coffee Morning.   

. . . refuses a lift . . .

She refuses a lift back to  the village, and when Cadno drives away, 

. . . and puts the keys in the Quad Bike

she goes to put the keys into the ignition of the Quad Bike in the barn.

Gethin cannot keep his eyes off Ffion 

Dani talks to Gethin in the café, but his mind is elsewhere, as Ffion is sitting nearby.   

"So, you've been dumped!"

“So, you’ve been dumped – it’s not the end of the world!” Dani tells him.   

“You’re so sensitive – you know that?” he replies, and tells her that he intends to go over and tell Ffion how he feels.   

Dani dissuades him, changing the subject by talking about the soup kitchen, and Gethin says he needs a money-raising idea.   

"That's a great idea"

Dani suggests a barbecue, and Anita, who has just come in, agrees that it is a great idea;  “Don’t you agree?” she asks Ffion.

"I don't want people talking about me"

“Why should I?” answers Ffion, “I don’t want to be surrounded by people talking about me, although I’ve got nothing to be ashamed of?”   

Is there hope for Gethin?

Gethin thinks he may detected a glimmer of hope for him.

Sheryl appears to be wasting another good meal

Sheryl is again toying with her chicken and salad at the Deri;  she tells Hywel of Gaynor’s visit and her demands.   

"I have signed the papers!"

He states categorically that he has signed the papers, but has not yet sent them to Gaynor’s lawyer.   

Sheryl does some detective work . . .

Then he has to return to CwmFM, but carelessly leaves his bag behind, into which, predictably, Sheryl looks 

. . . and, predictably, find the papers unsigned

and finds the unsigned papers.

Garry has loaded the Quad Bike into a trailer, closes the shutter and is about to get into the Range Rover when he is surprised by a shout – 

Sioned laughs at Garry's discomfiture

“Oi!”   He is relieved to find it is only Sioned, 

She says she has put on a perfect performance

who tells him how she was almost caught by Cadno while obtaining the keys, and boasts that she deserves an Oscar, before getting into the passenger seat,

Seeing Jinx, Ffion leaves the café 

Jinx comes into the café to join Anita and Hywel, upon which Ffion gets up to leave;  “You don’t have to leave because I’m here,” he tells her, but she tells him she is on her way to collect Arwen.   Then another argument follows about who should be picking up Arwen, and when.

CwmFM programme planning

When Ffion has gone, Jinx asks Hywel who will be presenting the programme on Thursday;  “Both of you,” he replies, 

Jinx does not like the ides of joint presentation

which does not go down well with Jinx, but seems to be welcomed by Anita.

"I want a word!"

At this point Sheryl arrives with Hywel’s bag;  “I want a word!” she says angrily, “How could you lie like that?   You haven’t signed the papers – and you don’t intend to!   You didn’t mean a word of what you said last week!”

The persuasive Hywel uses his charm . . .

Of course, Hywel smooth-talks his way out again, tell her that she and the baby are his priorities, not some legal papers, and that he will sign the papers on his own terms, not those of Gaynor.   Sheryl warns that it is not too late for her to change her mind.

“I’m not signing until I have read the papers carefully.   You’ve been through such a lot!   

. . . and all is harmonious again

“I will sign them, I promise!” says Hywel, soothingly.   As Hywel and Jinx head for the Deri, 

Anita certainly does not trust Hywel

Anita looks sympathetically at Sheryl.

"You want an excuse to get rid of me!"

At the Deri, Jinx comes to the conclusion, “This show is a test, to compare Anita and me as presenters.   You want an excuse to get rid of me, but if I lose my job, I’ll never get custody of Arwen!”

"You know me, I don't tell lies!"

Hywel assures him, “It’s not that – your job’s safe!   You know me, I don’t tell lies!”   Jinx replies that he does, according to Sheryl.   

"Don't argue with Ffion in court"

Hywel goes on to warn Jinx, “I wouldn’t argue with Ffion in a court of law.   I know Ffion as well as anyone – she has her weaknesses, but it takes a very stupid or a very brave man to cross her!”    Jinx enquires which category he comes under.

Hywel continues, “Think carefully before you drag your family through months of hell.   What’s the first rule of nature?   Never come between a mother and her offspring.”

Cadno reports on her visit to Carmarthen market

Sioned, who has been sitting at the bar, looking pensive, is joined by Cadno, who tells her, “They were all thin and ugly at the market today, and the animals were not much better!”

"The customer is happy . . ."

Garry comes in, and after receiving a text, informs Sioned that the Quad Bike arrived safely at its destination and the customer is happy.   “It went like clockwork!” she triumphs, 

. . . but wait until they find out at Penrhewl!"

but Garry sounds a note of caution;  “Until  Penrhewl notice it’s missing!   I wouldn’t like to be there when they find out.”