Cadno tells Marian she has cooked enough to feed five thousand; when Marian compliments Eifion on his smartness for the Lifestyle Wales inspection, Angela remarks to Cadno that she ought to try to be “more feminine”, as she looks like a farmhand.
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| Marian's baking session was all for nothing |
“The only fruit that’s in season is rhubarb,” retorts Cadno. Angela continues that “The Haven” is the future of the farm, “Your Penrhewl doesn’t mean anything!” she tells Cadno.
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| The historic picture, before being smashed by Cadno |
Furious, Cadno goes to the tent, sees the picture of her ancestors, throws it to the ground and stamps on it; she tosses the vase of flowers over the bed, overturns the wicker chair, then hears Bobi, crying, “Mami!”
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| Cadno finds Bobi in a somewhat hazardous environment |
She rushes back to the farmyard, where he has fallen over, and she blames Angela for not keeping an eye on him.
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| Thys cannot accept the gifts, and admits he has left university |
Hywel presents Rhys with a £500 cheque and a new laptop, for his studies, at which point Rhys comes clean about having left university. “I’m not academic enough,” he tells his father. Hywel asks, “Did you expect it to be easy? Well, now you must get a job and pay your bills.”
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| Marian takes Bobi to eat the cakes |
Cadno and Bobi have been picking flowers and give them to Marian; she tells him, “If that critic doesn’t want my cakes, you can eat them all.” Angela discovers the vandalism; “Who’s done this?” she shouts, and Cadno calmly replies, “Me, and if Bobi hadn’t cried, I would have done a lot more!” Angela says she spoils everything, Eifion calls the tent “a sustainable future”, but Cadno dismisses it as “a fad.”
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| The shouting-match escalates as the reviewer walks in |
Of course, Rebecca from Lifestyle Wales walks in on this row, just as Cadno says that her farming ancestors would not have approved, and Angela counters with, “We don’t need dead people’s permission.”
Cadno now drops her bombshell: “But you do need planning permission, which you don’t have!” Rebecca has heard enough, tells them she cannot review an illegal site and leaves.
In the Deri the inhabitants gather for the May Day party, and Siôn talks about the symbolic fight, with Garry commenting, “Pity it’s not a real one!” Jinx cannot understand Bethania’s leader promoting pagan rituals, “Unless he wants to boost his status in the community.”
So Siôn challenges Jinx to play the part of winter, clad in a black cloak, in the Bardic Contest, where he will oppose Siôn, with a garland of flowers round his neck, with improvised poetry.
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| Gwynfor provides suitable accompaniment for the Bardic Contest |
Much of this does not translate well into English, but as Gwynfor beats his drum, the contest begins with the word “barbarian” rhyming with “Anti Marian”.
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| Siôn providing amusement with his erudite poetry |
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| Jinx is finally lost for words |
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| King Garry and Queen Dani in their rather fetching, if understated, crowns |
Siôn then crowns Garry and Dani and the king and queen of summer; “I’ve always wanted to be carnival queen,” says Dani.
While Marian tries to salvage the damaged picture, which she used to look at as a girl, Eifion despairs that it is all over now, and Angela blames him for not supporting her.
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| A brief moment of Penrhewl as it used to be |
Later, Cadno tells Bobi, “We all need to know where we come from and where we belong; it’s people that are important.” Eifion comes in and tells Bobi that he is important, “Not meringues and fluffy towels,” and takes him to bed. Cadno looks at a photograph of her and her two sons.
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