Llandudno is the third part of the holiday trilogy, but it is slightly separate from the other stories and deserves to be dealt with on its own.

It starts with a disagreement – a row, in fact, over dinner. I’ve always slightly worried that everyone was acting out of character here. Lily has always been an easy-going woman who, despite her social position was relaxed about Gallifreyan customs. Would she really be the one to say that Marion and Kristoph’s future son couldn’t go on donkey rides and eat toffee apples?

Marion’s reaction is a little over the top, but otherwise I think it is right. She has heard such a lot about her child being a Time Lord, the heir to the House of Lœngbærrow and so on. Is it any wonder it all seems too much?

The interlude in 1950s Llandudno calms everything down a bit. It allows Marion to take stock of herself and what she really wants.

Codmans Punch and Judy show really has been around Llandudno for over as hundred and fifty years, with the original puppet theatre passed down from generation to generation. Long may that continue. It was the mark of continuity that I wanted to link the 1950s with the present and it worked perfectly in that sense.

Of course, by the time she got back to the present all was forgiven. Those issues still needed to be addressed in the future, but it was a happy ending for now. What else would you expect from a Marion and Kristoph story?

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