31 March 2014

Colin's debts are getting out of control

Colin comes downstairs and finds letters on the mat, one of which is a bill from “Valdor” for £1673.22, and demanding a minimum payment of £220.

A package is delivered to Penrhewl, containing the new tent;  Cadno and Angela leave Eifion to erect it.   Later, when he is in the village, Colin refers to “your new wife” who is always at Penrhewl, but is told it is “just a bit of fun”;  Eifion then enlists DJ to assist him, bribing him with breakfast in the café.   

Elin Francis in the background, taking notes for the court case

When they arrive there, Elin Francis is having a quiet cup of coffee, and watching Meic and Debbie, gathering ammunition for Kevin’s case.   DJ greets her and announces to everyone else that she is Diane’s niece and Kevin’s solicitor;  

DJ spills the beans;  Elin is about to be threatened by Debbie

Debbie furiously goes over and grabs Elin’s cup of coffee, telling her, “You’ll be wearing that if you don’t get out now!”   Elin leaves rather hurriedly, forgetting to take her coat, and when she comes back to collect it, Debbie is looking through the pockets.   

On the purple-clad iPad, one of Elin's past triumphs makes Debbie really scared

Meic tells Debbie she should not worry too much, but then Debbie finds in her iPad (with purple cover) a news item in the online version of the Western Post from two years ago, where Elin Francis managed to get someone found not guilty of a charge of murdering his girlfriend, and really starts panicking.

At the farm, Angela is planning a theme for the tent and furnishings;  they have to compete with other sites.   

DJ and Eifion, trying to decipher the tent-assembly instructions

Eifion comes in for a cup of tea, followed by DJ, carrying a weirdly-shaped metal tube and saying it does not fit;  Cadno smiles as they argue about the instructions.

Meic wants to look at those contracts they printed and had signed, where Kevin admits he raped Sheryl, and on their way to his house they see Elin, questioning Colin in the shop;  later she is seen talking to Geraint in the street, and tells Debbie she will speak to whoever she likes.   

Meic retrieves the documents from his cardboard box, but Debbie, frantically worried that her blackmailing scheme will be discovered, grabs them, tears them up, throws them into the washing-up water and screws them into a ball.

Looking at the Penrhewl Farm Glamping website

After the tent is constructed and photographed, the builders have a rest, and Angela shows them the website promoting “Penrhewl Farm Glamping”;  Cadno decides which of their photos should appear on the site.

Back at the café, Debbie dashes upstairs, and by the time Meic follows her, she has shredded the last copy of what she regards as the incriminating document.   

Kevin's confession goes through the shredder

Meic furiously points out she has destroyed Kevin’s confession, their back-up plan, but she says that Sheryl’s and Cadno’s evidence will be enough to put him away;  “The court is bound to believe he did it!”

After several looks into the shop till, Colin finally succumbs and clears out all the notes.   Later at home he pays back the money he borrowed from Iolo, but that still leaves the bill, and he is worried sick.

Colin pays off one creditor with the till contents, but there is much more owing

Eifion, Angela and DJ celebrate their venture in the café, but Meic cannot understand why anyone would want to go camping;  Angela describes it as a “Classy Site”.   Meanwhile, left alone again at the farm, Cadno takes the laptop, changes the charge on the website from £50 per night to £100, and smiles conspiratorially.

Cadno, about to make a subtle change to the charging tariff