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If you could jump in a tardis today….

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NotAGran55 Sun 15-Jan-23 08:13:25

…and go anywhere and back, just for one day, where would it be?

I would go to Sydney and do the harbour bridge climb again.

Coco51 Mon 16-Jan-23 17:04:14

To Svalbard, or Kiruna to see the Aurora Borealis

chocolatepudding Mon 16-Jan-23 16:55:13

This may be upsetting for some GNetters

I would go back to a day in 1976 when my first baby girl was alive and and just hold her and take care of her again. She died peacefully but suddenly just before Christmas age 7 months.

I learnt such a lot then, her funeral was the first one I had ever attended. Also the local paper stuck their noses into our lives and reported her death on the front page of the Christmas edition without any contact with us. I have hated the press ever since and if I could get my hands on that journalist....... because what was printed was not the truth.

We bought a small piece of land in the countryside very near our home and we planted 300 trees on it in 1987. I started planting snowdrops a few years later and now there are thousands of bulbs which are slowly emerging and will flower in the next few weeks. All done in memory of our lovely daughter.

Dottydots Mon 16-Jan-23 16:26:09

I would like to see my Mum and Dad again and thank them for the wonderful childhood they gave to me, my sister and two brothers.

LuckyFour Mon 16-Jan-23 15:34:26

Anywhere, absolutely anywhere, dh driving me round the bend!!!

Wyllow3 Mon 16-Jan-23 15:27:55

winterwhite

To see the African sky at night.

Me too. And experience some of the many cultures. "Under African Skies". I'd go to SA.

Jess20 Mon 16-Jan-23 15:22:39

GrammyGrammy, I don't believe in all that God stuff, I believe we need to take responsibility for our own actions with regard to climate change and not expect supernatural intervention.

dogsmother Mon 16-Jan-23 15:16:40

Definitely not forward.
Backwards to meet my maternal grandmother. She died in childbirth so My mother never got to know her or her family. We knew nothing about them.

JennyRobert Mon 16-Jan-23 15:02:29

I would want to go forward about about 30 years and see my family all grown up and thriving.

Morpeth78 Mon 16-Jan-23 15:00:59

May 1978 to the house I built.

polly123 Mon 16-Jan-23 14:52:39

Almost anywhere in Italy. How wonderful to travel without the predictably awful airport experience.

jerseygirl Mon 16-Jan-23 14:51:48

To see queen live at Wembley

Bluedaisy Mon 16-Jan-23 14:49:22

I’ve been wanting to visit my beloved DB in Florida as he had a big operation on 30th November last year and I wanted to see and cuddle him before his operation, the operation went well. But Sadly he passed away last week (5 weeks after his op) unexpectedly, so now I’m never going to get the chance to give him a cuddle one last time.

Barb22 Mon 16-Jan-23 14:44:02

Back to when I was 16 parents and grandparents were still alive would just sit and listen to them reminisce and have hugs and kisses

Bazza Mon 16-Jan-23 14:24:36

I’d like to go to the pacific islands, the only place on my bucket list I’ve never managed. And if possible to Menorca on a big family holiday with my beloved mum.

sharon103 Mon 16-Jan-23 14:06:01

I would love to go back to the 1970's the best years of my life.

Alison333 Mon 16-Jan-23 14:04:12

I'd like to go back to Tudor times to a reasonably rich household and see if it's true that nobody washed. Apparently they thought that water opened pores and let germs and illness in. The stink must have been terrible!

Neilspurgeon0 Mon 16-Jan-23 14:03:39

SEPTEMBER 10th 1959, Twydall. The day I screwed up the rest of my life by failing to speak up to the girl of my dreams. Truly faint heart really never does win gorgeous girl.

Skye17 Mon 16-Jan-23 13:51:07

LizzieDrip

This is going to sound really cringeworthy, but it’s true. I’d go back to a dark, snowy December evening in 1972. My then boyfriend (now husband) and I were teenagers and out walking in the snow - better than sitting in the house with parents. We stopped under a lamppost (for a cheeky kiss) and he said ‘I think I love you’. We married as teenagers and everyone said it wouldn’t work. 50 years later - still together and still like a walk in the snowgrin

I think that’s lovely 😀

GrammyGrammy Mon 16-Jan-23 13:40:28

Jess20

I think I'd go into the future and see how well, or not, we have dealt with the climate crisis. I'd probably want to use this information to advise my children whether or not they should go on to have their own kids.

The climate has always changed. it has never been a static thing. God who created it controls it and changes it. You have bought into a global lie- an excuse for controlling the population. Step back from joining in with the delusions you are force fed. There are far more compelling reasons to not breed than climate issues. But please. Please. Do not advise your children on whether they should breed. You lost that high ground the moment you yourself got pregnant.

HillyN Mon 16-Jan-23 13:39:15

If I remember rightly, part of the 'deal' with time travel in the TARDIS was that you weren't allowed to change the outcome of historical events. That being so, I would like to go back to just before WW2 and wander round my home town to see just what it was like before it was bombed. I've seen images but find it hard to relate them to the modern town.
If I'm wrong and I could change things, then I would go back 36 years and attempt to prevent the circumstances that led to my father's premature death.

Knittynatter Mon 16-Jan-23 13:32:10

I’d go back to the last time I saw my little sister and stay for another coffee

Marmight Mon 16-Jan-23 13:27:07

Id go back to 1 December 1973. My wedding day. I’d not only enjoy the day all over again, but see all my relatives who are no longer here; my parents and grandfather and many more but particularly my late husband. We’d get married again & Id be able to thank him for the happy years we had until he died, too soon and for our wonderful family. Id take photos of the grandchildren as they are now, some of whom he never met. Best of all I could tell him how much I loved him

Treetops05 Mon 16-Jan-23 13:19:58

I'd go to Canada and New Zealand

Secondwind Mon 16-Jan-23 13:19:12

Could I go for 24 hours over 2 days in different years, please? From midday to midnight when I was a little girl waiting for Father Christmas on Christmas Eve and then midnight to midday on a Christmas Day when my children were waking up following a visit from him?
Thank you, Doctor!

nadateturbe Mon 16-Jan-23 13:17:10

It would have to be back in time to meet Jesus.