19 August 2014

Garry just wants his sandwich

Garry comes into the café for a sandwich;  Debbie remarks that it must be strange for Gwern, seeing his mother around the village.   Ricky comes out of the kitchen with a bucket of water, as he is trying to earn some money, cleaning cars, but Garry says he runs a garage, not a car wash.   He also tells Debbie to fix her coffee machines before telling him how to run a business.

Debbie asks for a request to be played on Anita's programme

Anita comes in, but with the coffee machines on the blink does not stay long;  Debbie asks her to play a request for Meic on her CwmFM show – the One Direction song “What makes you beautiful.”

"Who is this girlfriend then?"

Then Anita goes to the Deri in search of a coffee, and tells Diane that there is always some sort of crisis in the café.   “Meic has a permanent smile, now he has a new girlfriend,” she says, and leaves again before telling Diane who it is.

Jim consults the tractor maintenance manual

Jim drops in at the farm, on the pretext of collecting eggs for the shop, and finds Cadno poring over the tractor manual.   “I’m pretty handy with a spanner,” he says, and they go out to the farmyard to take a look.

"You shouldn't be washing that there," moans Megan

Megan sees Ricky cleaning a red car, and complains that it is too near her shop, and her customers might trip over his bucket.   When he says he is saving up for a new Swansea City strip, she reckons he ought to be doing it for charity.

Anita’s programme begins, “We have a full show today, listeners, with gossip and fashion.”   

Debbie not happy about the change of music

She reveals that she has a request for Mr Meic Pierce of Caffi’r Cwm, from an anonymous person, who asked for One Direction, “But I hope you don’t mind if we play something more tasteful, in keeping with the classical mood of the show – I believe it’s a favourite of yours.”

Meic, however, is very pleased to hear Vivaldi

Meic has been listening to this on the café radio, and Debbie grimaces when she hears what is to be played – Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, but Meic is delighted.

"The mystery woman? — Debbie!" reveals Eileen

Diane goes into the shop, where the fridge is playing up and all the cheese is stacked up on the counter;  she asks Eileen the identity of Meic’s “mystery woman”, and cannot believe it when Eileen tells her.   “Ask Jim to give me a ring when you get back to APD,” Eileen asks, and is surprised to hear that he has the day off.

Jim has got the tractor working again, and would like more work to do on the farm;  he tells Cadno he was brought up next door to a farm.   

Cadno is reduced to tears by her inability to find the money . . .

When he asks her if she has managed to raise the necessary money to buy Eifion’s share, she bursts into tears, as she heard earlier from the bank that she has no chance of a loan.

Jim tells her that with the proceeds of the sale of Maes-y-Deri and Eileen’s money, they could raise enough for it.   

. . . But Jim's offer brightens her mood considerably

Cadno is doubtful, but when he says they would be “sleeping partners” and she could continue running the place, she smiles broadly and says, “That would solve everything!”   Jim reminds her that she will have a mechanic on tap as well.

Diane and Megan gossip, while Ricky works

Ricky is washing another car, near the garage, and Megan watches him, hard at it;  then Diane comes to pass on the gossip about Meic and Debbie being “an item.”   

Garry's apprentice mechanic

Garry has a word with Ricky, offering him a couple of things to do in the garage, and he is soon wielding a spanner in a car’s engine.   As he chats to Garry, Megan comes in, having reconsidered the way she spoke to Ricky earlier, and presents him with a rugby shirt, apparently the wrong one, but he accepts it graciously.

Anita's fashion tips get a bit personal . . .

Anita’s radio programme continues;  after Eine Kleine Nachtmusik she has some fashion tips, one of which being that, “It is a total fashion faux pas to wear jewellery with the first letter of your name.”   

. . . and Debbie takes exception to them

Debbie looks at the “D” hanging on a chain round her neck and takes serious exception to this.

"I booked a table at a Frech restaurant – for you," he lies

Eileen is still trying to contact Jim when he walks into the shop, and makes up a tale about being in Swansea, where he booked a table at a new French restaurant, “As a sign of my undying love for you!”

"You had your chance – now it's my turn!"

In the rather quiet Deri, Diane tells Anita that she liked the music, then Debbie marches in, saying, “I know what your game is – and it won’t work!   I make Meic happy and he makes me happy!   You had your chance with him, and now it’s my turn.”   When she goes to the bar, Anita remarks to Diane, “Why is he dating someone like that?   What will people say?”

"Get the spark back in your own life!"

Diane’s response is, “Who cares?   Take a leaf out of Meic’s book and find someone to put the spark back into your own life!”

Cadno comes to thank Eileen

As Eileen is watering the windowbox at the shop, Cadno arrives with a little basket of goodies as a gift for her;  “Thank you, I don’t know what I would have done without you and Jim.   He made the offer when he came this morning, and he fixed the tractor – he’ll be handy to have around!”

When Eileen looks blankly at her, she continues, “You’re both going to buy Eifion’s share of Penrhewl.”

Jim appears ever so slightly worried

“What?” roars Eileen, and Jim is seen cowering in the shop behind the loaves of bread.   “I don’t care what Jim said, I’m not buying Eifion’s share!” and thrusts the basket back at Cadno.

If he had any sense, he would have gone out the back way

Then they see Jim trying to sneak out of the shop unnoticed;  

The discarded basket has made rather a mess

Cadno shouts, “How could you raise my hopes like that and then dash them?” and flings the basket to the ground as she goes.

Eileen faces Jim;  “So you fancy yourself as a farmer, with an empire to rule over?   I won’t buy, no matter what!”