Why not? - English

14-15 Dilys' Sizzling Sauce

We had been walking around town all day today checking for smoke detectors while Dilys warmed up her new Pontypandy spicy sauce outside the store to attract buyers. Unfortunately, she had just done something wrong and the whole city smelled like a biogas plant. You could be happy that the smoke detectors only went off when there was smoke and not disgusting smells. Otherwise we would have had a lot of false alarms today.

I couldn't say how I ended up on a team with Ellie while Elvis was allowed to go off on his own, but that's exactly why I couldn't resist when Charlie and James unpacked the old photo album with our childhood photos and looked at them in the Cafe. It was wonderful to reminisce about all the old memories. We had had a wonderful childhood and somewhere I had to have my old fire engine and the helmet that I had discovered in the pictures. Maybe someday I would be able to get these things out of the storage with my own offspring and watch them enjoy it to play with them as much as I had. But just maybe...

To my delight, after the mission, Penny agreed to help me re-equip Dilys' shop with smoke detectors at the end of the day. So the day didn't end as boringly as it had started and at the end Norman even managed to get us to buy a carton of this spicy sauce for the station at a great price. I just hoped Elvis would somehow manage to make something tasty with it...

After work, we both decided to go out for dinner at the Whole Fish Cafe to save ourselves having to cook afterwards. But we hadn't yet sat down properly and opened the menu when Bronwyn came over to us very excitedly - to my horror, the photo album from before was under her arm. She didn't want to...

"Look, Penny, what Charlie found!" she said cheerfully and opened the book right in front of Penny's nose before she had even put it down at the table. She wanted to! I just hoped that Penny would take it easy to see me as a child, because somewhere in the back of my mind there was an alarm bell that was about to dash my hopes.

The fact that my brother came out from behind the counter almost in a panic and snatched the book from under their noses before they could even properly look at the first picture didn't make it any better. He was about to be exposed if he continued to try so desperately to stop Penny from seeing the album.

I knew he was thinking the same thing as me. We were both afraid that it would trigger something in Penny and make her mood significantly worse. But the fact that Bronwyn, who was usually much more sensitive than the oaf I had for a brother, was so relaxed about it, at least showed me that Charlie, for once, didn't seem to have revealed anything to her about our conversation, which I had told him a while ago in confidence. Anyway!

"Bronnie, don't do that, it's nothing special that we should bore Penny with," Charlie interjected as he closed the book and tucked it under his arm to bring it back to the back. However, he didn't get very far with it because Bronwyn pulled it out from under his arm and looked at him quite skeptically, which made me swallow hard. She suspected something and Charlie would definitely have to explain to her later why he was acting so strangely.

"Are those the photos of Sam and you that Elvis and Ellie were talking about earlier?" Penny objected with a smile and Bronwyn took the book with a curious look in my direction, down and opened it again to look at the pictures.

After the fire at Dily's shop, Ellie had gone to look at photos of Philys' wedding with Dilys as revenge for me leaving her hanging like that in my brother's Cafe earlier. The only question was who got the worse part. I didn't really need to see Dilys in her evening dress or Philys landing upside down in the wedding cake because she had two left feet. How did I know that? Well, Dilys had told everyone about it so many times that I could imagine the pain Ellie was going through. But I didn't want to hold her back either, because it was hard for me to say anything against it, since I really hadn't exactly been the best example of always being attentive to work, right? Elvis, on the other hand, had gushed to Penny and Arnold about what a sweet child I was before he drove back to the station with Arnold. No wonder Penny was curious now that she had the chance to see for herself.