2 May 2014

Cadno, looking in Thomas ac Ellis' window, before Sheryl passes

As Cadno looks at houses in the window of Thomas ac Ellis, Sheryl asks, “Fed up with living in the same house as Lady Muck?”   When Cadno calls at the shop, Eileen rebukes her for ruining weeks of work for Angela and Eifion;  Cadno retorts that Angela has been forcing her way into the boys’ lives, and she is sick of it.   Eileen of course takes Angela’s side, when they talk about it over a cup of tea upstairs;  Cadno says it is only a matter of time before they have a child, or two or three, to take away Bobi’s and Arthur’s inheritance.

Mark struggles with the sat-nav

Mark is trying to programme his sat-nav, while Gemma guesses where they are going – a beach on the Gower, picnic up a mountain?   Mark tells her she has to be smart, so she goes to don her “glad rags.”

Gemma reads Mark's list of age-related problems

Later, when they stop at a café somewhere on the way, Mark accidentally leaves a piece of paper under his keys as he goes to get coffee.   Gemma reads it and finds it is a list of ‘pro’s and ‘con’s, headed “Age Gap”.   

She tells him that wherever they are going, she hopes there will be a children’s menu for her, and he can have a nap after lunch.   When he looks puzzled, she reveals his paper;  “This is a date, not a blinkin’ funeral!” she says.

Gemma loses her temper before walking out on Mark

When he tells her where they are heading – the Trudy Spencer show, the subject of which is “Cwmderi’s dramatic response to the age gap.”   Gemma is angry that she was not told.   She will not have any part in it, and is surprised that it is all for money;  “So you can make a few pennies for peddling lies!   Is that all you care about?   You’ll have to cancel – you don’t have a relationship to discuss!”   She marches out, watched by the other customers.

Ffion talks some sense into Rhys at the Deri

Ffion finds Rhys in the Deri;  he says that he has had a bad week, and Ffion replies, “What about Iolo?   If you have that negative attitiude to a friend, I’m glad I’m not your enemy.”   

"I wondered whereI left that adjustable spanner," says Iolo

Rhys resolves to talk to Iolo, and finds him about to get into his van.   Rhys tells him he has completely messed up – with university, family, and him.   Rhys gives back an adjustable spanner he found in his bag, apologises and says he is going to talk to his tutor about going back;  Iolo says he will give him a lift there.

Cadno goes to the salon, with some estate agent’s house details, where Sheryl suggests that if she temporarily lived somewhere else it might be for the best.   Cadno insists, “I don’t want any distance between me and the boys;  if I leave, they’re coming with me!”

Gemma is determined it is over, and she is leaving

When Mark gets home, Gemma is angrily packing all her belongings;  “I won’t stay with a man who lies to me, and talks to the nation about me!” she says, “I hitched a ride home with a lorry-driver.   I thought we had something special, but now I feel so cheap – I can’t stay!”

Mark says that at his age and with his job, the money was like gold, to be spent on her, but she does not want that, just some honesty and normality;  it is obvious they have problems.   Mark is scared that she will run away with someone younger and with more sense.  

Mark tells her he loves her, and cannot bear to lose her

“I don’t want to lose you, Gem,” he says, “I love you!”   When her anger subsides and she agrees not to go, he says he does not know what he would do without her, “But promise not to get into lorries with strangers.”

She then admits she really travelled home by taxi;  “I’m more sensible than you think.”

Rhys, accompanied by Iolo, approaches the tutors office;  Iolo commends Rhys’s bravery in going back, but Rhys is worried that the tutor will laugh in his face.   

"Rhys, come in," says the tutor

Whatever happens, Iolo says he has paid £3 for parking, so he will wait and take Rhys home.   It must have gone well, because he later catches up with Hywel and tells him the good news that he is still a student.

Cadno rather fancies this two-bedroom house, she tells Sheryl

Cadno goes to Sheryl’s to continue their chat, and Sheryl wonders whether taking the children from Penrhewl is for the best;  “Nothing will stop Angela filling the place with babies, if she wants.   Cadno is adamant;  “I’m sure I’m not letting Angela get her claws on the place!”

Sheryl warns that Angela seems to get her own way, but Cadno says that if she gets Eifion on her side, Angela will not stand a chance.   “Bobi’s and Arthur’s inheritance is what matters to both of us,” she confidently states, “No-one can have babies with an infertile man!   

Cadno is confident that Eifion will have a vasectomy

I’m going to persuade Eifion to have a vasectomy — Angela is not the only woman who knows how to get what she wants!”