6 July 2011

Dai and Brandon are working on Norman’s gastropub, but things are not moving as quickly as they could be, because Norman keeps changing his mind on which room will be which.  Norman is unforgiving however and has them both on a tight leash, demanding that they work harder and faster.

Dani takes Brandi, their ratty little dog, to be sterlised.  Just as well, horrible little thing.

Meic and Denzil have moved in together, and having tidied up Colin’s left behind mess, the place is starting to look like home.

Meic comes back to Y Deri to collect some things, but he walks in at precisely the wrong moment, when Colin and Anita are having a kiss.  He vows to come back another day, and refers to Colin as the cuckoo in his nest.

5 July 2011

Gaynor is furious with Ffion, who turns up to work as bold as brass, as if nothing had happened.  Gaynor takes Ffion to her office and gives her a choice, either get a doctor’s note and she can have the time off to get better, or a governor’s meeting will be called, and she’ll be sacked.

Leighton offers Sioned and Macs a free holiday at his place in South Africa, as a wedding present.  Sioned tries to talk about weddings, but Macs changes the subject.  Sioned says she is very worried, that Macs has been like this for weeks and she’s having trouble sleeping as a result.  When she suggests that he doesn’t want to be with her, he reacts emotionally and says that once the school year is over, things will be different.  He clearly finally realises that his reaction to being raped by Scott, about which Sioned knows nothing, is hurting Sioned badly.  All seems well, until Gaynor lets it slip that Macs left work at 3.30pm that day -- Macs had told Sioned that he was working late!

Sion tells Jinx and Hywel that he knows the Cwm FM programme about monks was made up, as there have been no people living on the island since the 12th century.

4 July 2011

Ricky goes with some other children to Ysgol Y Mynach, which will be his new secondary school.   After Gaynor ingratiates herself on them, Ffion gives them a taste of sport.  However, she decides that she needs her vodka.  She puts poor Jinx in charge of the children, who is there to record a radio programme.  He barely knows what to do.  Ffion rushes back to grab her 'water bottle' filled with vodka, and in the meantime, the children rummage through the sports supplies, and emerge with a variety of sporting equipment, including javelins.

Ffion comes back, sees the children with the javelins, reacts extremely angrily, and shouts at them.  Mark (Ricky's father) remonstrates with her and realises that she's intoxicated, and guesses that she wasn't ill in Cardiff, but intoxicated then also.

Gaynor arrives, and she is furious.  She frog-marches Ffion into her office.  She tells Fiion that she is an alcoholic, and that she will never get the opportunity to behave like that again.  She starts making all sorts of threats about the board of governors.

Jinx has been recording the whole thing for Cwm FM, but his boss Hywel is anxious to protect Gaynor from scandal, and says it won't be broadcast.  Jinx is angry that Hywel will allow false programmes (such as the one about the monks) to be broadcast but not the truth.

Meanwhile, Iolo is trying to reach out to Macs, but Macs is not interested in engaging.  Sioned is becoming increasingly unhappy.

30 June 2011

Neil goes on Cwm FM to appeal for the return of family photos which were lost in the burglary.

Jinx is forced to record a fake radio programme where he is supposedly in Ireland, at a monastery.

Ffion's apparent illness is troubling Gaynor, who knows that something is wrong, but can't put her finger on it.

29 June 2011

Ffion takes some pupils for an open day at Cardiff Uni, but takes herself off to a pub, talks to some strange bloke, and gets drunk.  When the pupils are not back at the appointed time, Gaynor makes frantic phone calls, including one to Ffion, who sheepishly says that she is ill.  Gaynor asks Macs to go to Cardiff and collect them, but he freezes up and refuses point blank (we assume this is where Scott lives).

When Gaynor says she will report him to the board of governors, Macs admits to Gaynor that he was attacked.

Initially she appears to be sympathetic but then throws it back in his face, saying that now he must realise how Izzy felt.  This seems rather uncalled for.  Later, she appears at his flat, and gives him some information to help him.  Macs says that she is only there to ease her conscience, threatens her, and throws her out.

28 June 2011

Episode 1

Probert is not happy that one Gwyneth, of the two lesbians, is managing his family law case (about access to his daughter).  He doesn't think that a lesbian would have the first idea about how to empathise with a man, and accuses her of bias.

Colin tells Meic that Anita wants nobody to know that the two of them are together.  Meic is finding it difficult to be in Colin's presence.

Episode 2

Ffion invites herself round to a non-existent party at Macs and Sioned's place.  Macs quickly excuses himself, being around alcohol makes him nervous.  He's quite clearly still in a very bad place.

Huw tells his Leighton that Lios is pregnant, and that he's the father, but he can't bring Sion round to his point of view.  Leighton is caught between wanting to be loyal to his grandson but also loyal to his son too.

27 June 2011

Dani tells her brother Gethin that she slept with Garry Monk whilst they were in Newcastle, and that Garry is threatening her with blackmail.  Gethin thinks she should tell Brandon now, rather than have him find out from Garry. He may have a point.  Gethin thinks that if she confesses now, Brandon will be upset, true, but in time he will forgive her.