Timeline

Below is a timeline of the events in the story cross-referenced with ROWE's book adaption and the UK Met Office weather data from 1984. All page numbers referenced (denoted pg) are from ROWE's book and all episodes (denoted ep) are from the respective episode numbers where relevant.

There are some discrepancies between the show and the book, as well as some discrepancies between the time frames indicated in the book. These have been noted where possible and the dates given worked out based on the most likely alternatives.

8th January 1984 Sunday

 * Morgan calls Val (p2)
 * Rain coming from the northwest (matches met. records) (pg1)

9th Jan Monday

 * Lee is sacked (pg3)
 * Val broaches Wales (pg9)

10th Jan Tues

 * Lee collects his papers from work (pg11)
 * DISCREPANCY pg12 implies it’s suddenly Friday

14th Jan Sat

 * Lee has goodbye drinks with Colin and Carol (pg13)

15th Jan Sun

 * Val and Lee take the National Coach to Wales (pg15)

16th Jan Monday

 * Lee walks to Talgarth, meets Matthew Gibbs and the Gregorys (pg32)
 * Lee rings home (pg 43)
 * Morgan and Lee go to the Castle Inn (pg 44)

The weeks passed (pg49) Three weeks passed (pg49) gets us to 6th Feb Monday The weeks succeeded one another (pg50)

Finding sheep on the hills during bad snow in Feb (pg54)

11th Feb Friday

 * Morgan takes the pony up to the ridge to wrangle lost sheep
 * Receives letter from Estate’s solicitor re. succession of the tenancy on grounds of suitability (pg57, 61)

12th Feb Saturday

 * Morgan visits Tom Duncan at Hereford (pg60, ep3)
 * Storm blew in from NE which is the angle Blainau is susceptible to (pg65)
 * Plas Newydd party organised (pg67)
 * Morgan doing paperwork, fixing the barn door in the storm (pg69)

13th Feb Sunday

 * Book says next day was Sunday (pg72), dull but dry
 * Lee visits Griffiths’ farm, stays for dinner (pg74, 75)
 * Morgan shows Lee the Old Lady’s room (pg76)
 * Lee goes to Matthew’s, with him on to the Castle Inn (pg79)
 * Price fakes a call about Morgan having an accident, fights (pg79, 80) (ep 4 on the 20th Feb Matthew says this event happened “the Sunday before last” which would put it at the 5th Feb which doesn’t fit with the book)

20th February Sunday

 * Exact date confirmed (pg84, ep 3), “a while” after the fight (pg86)
 * Disaster Party (pg84)
 * Lee had been quiet for the last week (pg98)
 * Lee declares he’ll leave to Abergavenny station with Jean tomorrow morning (pg99)

21st Feb Monday

 * Lee travels home, goes to pub, Morgan calls to make sure he got back okay (pg100-103)
 * According to the book the next morning is a Sunday but this cannot be correct the exact date is given for the day before (pg104)

6th March Tuesday

 * Lee returns to Blainau, meeting Morgan in Abergavenny Market (pg117)

25th March Sunday

 * The end of March (pg118)
 * Lee has been back at Blainau for five days (pg118)
 * Lee meets Louise (pg118)

19th March Monday

 * Lee catches Louise riding with Boulton’s group (pg121)
 * Lee and Morgan confront each other over Morgan being rude to Louise; first time they’d been angry at each other (pg127)

20th March Tuesday

 * Lee takes the morning off, takes pony to go riding with Louise (pg130)
 * Morgan cut his finger on barbed wire (pg132)
 * Morgan takes Lee and Louise to Brecon (pg133)
 * Talks to Harry Gregory, goes home “...shaved, changed his suit, polished his shoes and scrubbed the dirt from his nails. Nobody would say he didn’t know how to behave in polite society.”, came to the wine bar “red-faced and ill at ease” (pg138)

25th March Sunday

 * Louise comes over to sleep with Lee, Morgan goes to Church (pg139-142)
 * Morgan comes home as promised at 1pm, having spent one hours after Church at Tower Inn talking sheep to a near neighbour (pg143)
 * Morgan “roared like a wounded beast”, decks Lee (pg146)

13th April Friday

 * The Friday before Easter weekend, Colin, Ros and Greener come to Blainau (pg150)
 * Duncan visits, Lee bakes something (pg151)
 * Matthew’s interview at Merthyr on Monday (pg151)
 * Morgan takes the three stray sheep up to Griffiths’ farm, asks for advice (pg158)
 * Morgan talks about the pigs (pg161-163)


 * Rubbish collection “week next Friday” according to Matthew (pg161)

15th April Sunday

 * Griffiths invites Morgan over after Church for tea & gives papers (pg169)
 * Griffiths next weekend will be Easter (ep6)


 * Sheep get out (ep6)

16th April Monday

 * Matthew’s interview (missed) (pg151)
 * Raining heavy, Lee fixes fence
 * Pugh scared to go inside
 * Lee goes for a walk up to Castel Dinas
 * Morgan is "made drunk" (pg179)
 * Lee takes Morgan up a coffee at 11:45pm (ep6)

23rd April Monday (Easter Monday)

 * Duncan and another estateman survey Blainau (ep 7)
 * Lee forces Morgan to organise the paperwork

Tuesday Aber/accountant/Lee goes to Griffiths

24th April Tuesday

 * Morgan goes to Abergavenny Market and accountant
 * Price and Sarah are caught by Tom Griffiths

25th April Wednesday

 * Jean comes in to say Pugh will not be working at Blainau anymore


 * Matthew moves into a new room in Plas Newydd


 * Lee goes to Matthew and then to Cwm Du


 * Matthew has a breakdown and goes home
 * Lee agrees to help Morgan bring Blainau to rights "however long it will take" (ep7)


 * Raining heavy at night (ep7)

26th April Thursday

 * Morgan tells Lee he has accepted Duncan's offer - nearly 10am (ep7)

27th April Friday

 * Date of fortnightly rubbish collection according to Matthew from 13th April (pg161)

For three weeks little seemed to happen, and then, suddenly, the tempo increased as Blainau ran down (pg221)

28th May Monday

 * Morgan, Lee and Val clear out Blainau

29th May Tuesday

 * Val returns to Manchester by train
 * Lee says his goodbyes to the Gregorys

30th May Wednesday

 * Morgan takes Lee to Pengenffordd National Coach stop, says goodbye

31st May Thursday

 * Pugh visits Morgan

1st Jun Friday

 * Morgan walks from Talgarth to Llanelieu, stop at Church
 * Morgan clears out the Old Lady's room, workshop
 * Fini