D.I.V.O.R.C.E.
On Thursday of last week Wales voted.
On Friday last week we discovered Wales had voted 'yes' emphatically.
On Saturday the Liberal Democrats split their time between revelling in the 'yes' vote and distancing themselves, on this side of the Severn bridge, from their coalition partners on the other side.
On Sunday the Conservatives said that they are not picking on Wales, that it means a great deal to the party ... while the Presiding Officer was telling them to get rid of their woman in the Wales Office - and the office itself - as soon as possible.
On Monday David Jones and Peter Hain told him to zip it, to stop "acting above his pay-grade", while Ieuan Wyn Jones said Plaid's manifesto would reinforce the views expressed by Lord Elis-Thomas.
He questioned the need for the Wales Office. Peter Hain questioned the need for a Deputy First Minister called Ieuan Wyn Jones.
By Tuesday Carwyn Jones seemed to be suggesting it was Mr Hain, not Lord Dafydd Elis-Thomas, who had been acting above his pay-grade.
By now I was in London for days of meetings.
On the way home last night I sent a text asking how the (temporary) divorce proceedings were going.
"As with other divorces, we've reached a deal. Plaid get to keep the Dafydd Iwan CDs and Labour will hang on to the Billy Bragg albums" came the response.
There are some Labour sources letting it be known that a deal between Labour and the Lib Dems after the Assembly Election is "a done deal". Lib Lab is sorted. But it sounds to me as though Labour and Plaid's decree absolute is quite some way off.
I'm Betsan Powys, ´óÏó´«Ã½ Wales' political editor. I'll be blogging the inside track on .
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