21 June 2018

Eileen is making tarts . . .

Eileen is up early in Penrhewl, making tarts;  “You wouldn’t believe how much fruit Cadno left in the freezer,” she tells Jim, 

. . . and all is harmonious at Penrhewl 

“And this year’s raspberries will soon be ready.

. . . but not so at the chippy flat

Britt is moaning to Colin, “Look at the lazy layabout – in his pyjamas at this time of day!   It’s a shame you don’t listen to me, Chester!   You’re ruining your life – 

Chester simply ignores his mother

“do you want to be a waster the rest of your days?   I am not going to keep you!”   

"Calm down, Britt"

Colin tries to calm her down, but to no avail;  “Gaynor may have given up on him, but I’m his mother, and I say he has to go to school!   You’re setting a bad example to Aaron.   Do you want him to turn out like you – a worthless slob?”   

"If you back off, he may go back of his own accord"

Colin warns her that the more angry she gets, more stubborn he will become, and if she backs off, he may go back to school of his own accord.

"Good try, Colin!"

The very thought of this  makes Chester laugh, “Good try, Colin!”

"I'm sleeping like a log these days"

Jim says that he is sleeping like a log these days, as it is so quiet, but Eileen reminds him that they will soon have a screaming baby.   

"Are you sure we're doing the right thing?"

He wonders if they are doing the right thing, and she insists that she would not be anywhere else, 

"I ordered some flowers for Courtney"

adding that she has ordered some flowers for Courtney;  she would have been 19 today, 

"She would have been a mother too"

and Jim remembers that she would have been a mother too.

"You really must tell Sioned"

Eileen says they are starting off a new chapter, and Jim advises her that she should tell Sioned, so that everyone else can be told, 

"No, it's too soon after the DJ business"

but she makes the excuse that it is too soon after the DJ business.   He says that he is bursting to tell everyone.   Then he has to hurry off, as Dai is expecting a big delivery.

"What is a Pre-Product Quality Analyst?"

In the café, DJ is looking at situations vacant in the paper, and wondering what a Pre-Product Quality Analyst is, but Dai has no idea, and suggests that he asks Sara for his job back.   

Gwyneth's ears are flapping, as usual

Gwyneth is also there, and upon hearing this, prepares to leave.

"Two full Welsh breakfasts, please, Gwen"

Dai orders two coffees and two full Welsh breakfasts from Gwen, and meanwhile, 

Gwyneth is snooping again . . .

Gwyneth watches DJ 

. . . as DJ enters his password

entering the password on his laptop.   Then she speaks to him, pointing out how upset Sioned still is;  

"That's not the same as being innocent"

“Insufficient evidence is not quite the same thing as innocent – she is still having nightmares.”

Dai comes across with the coffees, and demands what Gwyneth is doing, 

"What are you doing, hovering like a vulture?"

“Hovering about like a vulture?”   She maintains that it is good that DJ is taking no notice of what everyone is saying about him.   Dai points out, “You were pointing the finger at him more than anyone!” but she maintains that she was just defending Sioned;  now they all have to move on and put it behind them.   

"That woman gives me the creeps!"

When she leaves, Dai says that she gives him the creeps.

In the street, Gwyneth tries to persuade Sioned not to go to the café for some chocolate cake;  

"There's some icecream in the freezer"

she has some icecream in the freezer.   

"I don't want icecream!"

“I don’t want icecream!” replies Sioned, irritably, “What are you trying to do?”

Gwyneth tells her that DJ is in the café;  he said been saying that she is a liar, and constantly wants attention, but Sioned takes no notice and walks straight into the café.

Britt tells Colin that Chester has to learn his lesson, 

"Chester is going to work here!"

and she has decided that he is going to work at the chippy;  Ed says he will welcome the company.   

"Make sure you work him hard!"

Britt insists that she wants Chester to be worked hard;  “There are extractor fans to clean, and floors to scrub.”

"Chocolate cake and a coffee, please, Gwen"

Sioned asks Gwen for chocolate cake and a coffee;  

Dai looks disapproving

DJ greets her and tells Dai that he should be civil toward her.   

"After all the lies she's told about you?"

“What, after all the lies she’s told about you?” he grumbles, then receives a call from Jim.   

"Just as I've ordered my breakfast!"

Apparently the delivery has just arrived, and Dai protests that he has just ordered a breakfast.

He is worried about leaving DJ and Sioned in the same room, 

"Don't you take any of her nonsense!"

and warns him not to take any of her nonsense.   When Gwen brings the two meals, 

"Do you want some bacon, Sioned?"

DJ asks Sioned if she wants some bacon, but she declines the offer.   

"Surprised you're offering it to a liar like me"

“I’m surprised you’re offering it to a liar like me,” she comments,” That’s what you called me, didn’t you?

"I've never called you that!"

He replies, “I’ve never called you that – who told you that I did?”   Sioned hesitates, then apologises to him.

"Right, you're working in the chippy!"

Britt marches into the flat and demands that Chester wear the apron that she throws at him.   “If you’re leaving school, then you have to pay rent, 

"If you don't pay rent, I'm throwing you out!

“and to pay rent, you need to work.   If you don’t pay rent, I’m throwing you out on the street!   I’ve been too soft with you for years – that’s the problem!   

"Come on – you're starting now!"

“Come on, Ed’s waiting for you, and you’re starting now!”

He insists that he does not want to work in a chippy;  

"You should have thought of that before throwing a hissy fit!"

“You should have thought of that before throwing a hissy fit and leaving school,” she shouts.

"Eifion's face is enough to turn milk sour!"

As they carry the delivery into APD, Dai moans about missing his breakfast and also about Eifion in the shop;  “His face is enough to turn the milk sour!   How are you getting on playing Farmer Giles, then?”   Jim replies that he loves it, and thinks he was a farmer in a former life.

"DJ is coming out of his shell now"

Dai reveals that DJ is beginning to come out of his shell after that business with Sioned.   “They’re trying to be civil with each other now.”   

"Alcohol – the juice of the devil!"

He blames alcohol for all the trouble;  “The juice of the devil!”

Jim admits that things are going well with him;  

Jim cannot keep it quiet any longer

“Blimey, I need to tell someone,” he says, “I’m going to be a Dad again – 

"Eileen is expecting a baby!"

“Eileen is expecting a baby!”   

Dai is rendered speechless

Dai stares at him, open-mouthed with amazement.

"How are things in the shop?"

Eileen meets Colin in the back street, and asks how things are going in the shop;  “It’s a nightmare in there – Cadno has insisted on moving everything, and I can’t find a thing.   

"And then there's Uncle Fester!"

“And then there’s Uncle Fester – Eifion – as grumpy and miserable as anything every day.   Come back, please!”   

"I'm happy in Penrhewl, thank you"

Eileen sympathises, but says she is happy in Penrhewl, and warns him he would not last five minutes with the mucking out on the farm.   He suggests that they have a night out some time, and reminisce about the old days.   

"Mam!"

Sioned sees her mother, and calls to her, then notices Gwyneth, lurking, 

"Are you stalking me?"

and demands, “Are you stalking me.”   

Gwyneth tells her a pack of lies

Gwyneth replies, “I’ve just heard your mother and Colin talking about you.   They think you’re making a mistake, getting close to DJ again – they say he cannot be trusted.”

Sioned now has the measure of Gwyneth;  “Why are you doing this?   Talking rubbish and stirring – 

"They didn't say any such thing!"

“Mam didn’t say any such thing!   Nor did DJ – I just asked him.”   Gwyneth maintains that she is trying to protect Sioned, and being a good friend to her, but is told, “I don’t need you to look after me, right?”

Ed's new assistant reports for duty . . .

Outside the chippy, Britt introduces Ed to his new assistant, adding, 

. . . and he is told to make Chester's life hell

“He’s a swine – make his life hell!”

Dai needs water to get over the shock

Round the back of APD, Jim has to bring Dai a glass of water;  “You look as if you’ve seen a ghost,” he says, 

"Eileen and I are over the moon"

“Eileen and I are over the moon, anyway – that’s why she wanted to move back to Penrhewl – so the little one can run in the fields, and learn about the countryside.”

"But you're shooting blanks!"

“But don’t you remember, Jim?” Dai reminds him, “You’re shooting blanks!”   

"One little soldier must have climbed over the wall!"

Jim concludes that one little soldier must have climbed over the wall.   

"It wouldn't be the first time Eileen has strayed"

“Are you sure?   It wouldn’t be the first time Eileen has strayed, would it?   

"She should be expecting a bus pass, not a baby!"

“Crikey Moses – Eileen should be expecting a bus pass, not a baby.”   

Jim replies that it just goes to show that miracles happen, and Dai congratulates him on the news, commenting, “Cwmderi’s own tom-cat!”   Jim swears him to secrecy, as no-one else knows, not even Sioned.   “No – we don’t want Diane getting ideas, do we?” laughs Dai.

Then Eileen arrives, and Dai tells her they have been rushed off their feet, and he never even had any breakfast.   

"You've told him, haven't you?"

She looks very suspicious, and asks Jim, “You’ve told him, haven’t you?”, and he eventually admits that he has, as it is such exciting news.   

"I have to tell Sioned now"

“I’ve got no choice – I have to tell Sioned now,” she realises.

"I hope you have fresh chips"

Dai goes to the chippy, looking for sustenance, and is surprised to see Chester behind the counter;  

"Mam thinks she is punishing me"

“I’ve left school, and Mam thinks she is punishing me, but it won’t work.”   
Dai wants some curry sauce on his chips, and Chester persuades him to have a nice fresh chicken and mushroom pie as well.

"There's no point going to university"

“There is no point going to university – there are no jobs anyway,” says Chester, and Dai agrees;  he and Dic left school at 15, and now they are both successful businessmen.

“Look at me now – I’m one of the pillars of the community,” he brags.

Eileen visits Sioned 

Eileen goes to see Sioned, who tells her that things are better between her and DJ now;  “We can start to move on.   Are you OK?   You look a bit nervous.”

Eileen replies that she has some good news;  

"Jim and I are going to have a baby"

“Jim and I are going to have a baby – 

Sioned finds the news somewhat unsettling

“you’re going to have a new brother or sister by Christmas!”

"You could have a chain of shops"

In the chippy, Dai tells Chester that he could have a chain of chip shops;  “You could expand across the world – ‘Chester’s Chips’ – 

"Or even 'Monkfish'!"

“or even ‘Monkfish’.   I always said you were an entrepreneur.   

"Don't encourage him, Dai"

Ed tells him not to encourage Chester, as Britt is desperate for him to go back to school.   

Gwyneth comes in for chips and a veggie sausage, and remarks upon Chester leaving school to work in a chip shop.   She adds that she is surprised Dai did not give DJ a job, 

"You're acidic enough already!"

and he replies that DJ is in surprisingly good humour, considering, but he, unlike certain others, knew that DJ was innocent.   He also comments that Gwyneth does not need any vinegar on her chips, as she is acidic enough already.

"It's the 'Monkfish' herself!"

Britt arrives through the back door, and Dai greets her, “It’s the ‘Monkfish’ herself!”   

Why on earth did  Dai leave the keys there?

Gwyneth takes advantage of the diversion to pick up Dai’s bunch of keys as she leaves the shop.   

"I'm having a great time here!"

Dai says these are the best chips he has had in the shop, and Chester thanks his mother for forcing him to work there.   “I’m having a great time here – in fact I cannot see myself ever going back to school!”

"Did you have IVF?"

Sioned asks her mother if she has had IVF, but Eileen explains it happened naturally, but by accident, and it was a shock to her initially.   

"Now I'm looking forward to it"

“But now I’ve got used to it, I’m looking forward to it.”   

"Surely you're too old!"

Sioned points out that she is 53, surely too old to have a baby, but is assured the hospital is keeping a careful eye on her.

"Who will look after the baby?   Me!"

“Who will look after the baby in the years ahead?” demands Sioned, “Me!”   Eileen stresses that the baby will give them a new start, a new baby to give them all hope;  “After I’ve been so difficult?” Sioned comments.

"It's all about you, isn't it?"

“Here we go,” Eileen snarls, “It’s all about you – nothing else matters on planet Sioned!   Well, from now, on the baby is all that matters to me, and if you don’t want to be part of his life, suit yourself!”   She would appreciate it if Sioned kept quiet about it for now.

"Mam is pregnant!

Gwyneth walks in and immediately Sioned reveals that her mother is pregnant;  she does not know how she and Jim will cope.   

"I won't mention DJ again"

Gwyneth says she wants to apologise, and promises not to mention DJ again;  “If you want to forget about it, it’s OK with me.”

"I don't want to hear another word said against him"

Sioned tells her, “To be honest, I don’t want to hear another word said against him – it’s the only comfort I get at the moment – he and I are getting to understand each other, and you never know, we may eventually be friends again.   

Gwyneth has something else up her sleeve . . .

As Sioned goes have a bath, Gwyneth, with a smirk, 

. . . involving her phone and Dai's keys

takes from her pocket her phone, and Dai’s keys.