If you could jump in a tardis today….

Back to when my mother was alive and well. I have so many questions I wish I’d asked her ..

I'd go back in time to visit my child self and tell her it will all work out OK, she will be happy as an adult, and there will be people in her life who will love her, and treat her well.

I would like to stay here, and go back in time to see the changes that have shaped by hometown and the nearest city. I don't want to get involved in changing history, but if I could leave the Tardis I would like to wander round inconspicuously and take in the sounds and smells of everyday life for ordinary people.

If I could have even more control over my visit, I would love to follow my ancestors' lives back through time - as far back as my ticket allows .

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.

Terrified of what?

Oh I was so disappointed when I visited the bar was lovely but the Singapore slings were all made up ready behind the bar ( tourist attraction) I had a glass of wine instead as was unsure how long they’d sat there

I would taken better care of my emotional self.

I would head back to 1910 the year my father was born. I want to meet my Grandfather David. He was 50 when he was torpedoed by a German submarine.
There are no pictures of him and I have few details of his life. My son in law took me to the street in Edinburgh where he was born. The houses are just as they were in 1867 and I can imagine him being pushed in his pram down the street.
So going in a Tardis to see him would be fantastic. Literally.

Back to when my mum and dad were alive and well. I would ask and tell them a lot of things.

I would go back to 1970 and not turn up at the church for my first wedding!

I would go somewhere and to a time when I could make the maximum change to history for the betterment of mankind. Perhaps to the day Hitler was born and smother him? Or Stalin? To Japan the day before Pearl harbour to show the leaders videos of what would happen to Hiroshima and Nagasaki if they didn't make a different choice? Perhaps I'd travel in the Tardis to the garden of Eden and have a sneaky whisper in Eve's ear about the serpent before it arrives whilst slipping her an axe to chop its head off. Maybe a trip to Chernobyl in early 1986 to warn them to get their act together. Or to India and China decades ago to intervene at their normalisation of the killing of millions of baby girls. I know! I could travel to the West and get the leaders to outlaw abortion- the state sanctioned execution of millions of individual babies by their own mothers. Maybe you don't deserve intervention though. You ignore God who intervened by sending his Son to save you if you will only turn away from your sins and trust in him. So why would I give you my Tardis day? Yet, here I am. I've travelled a long long time and a long long way to be here, on Gransnet, appealing to you to change today. Choose Life.

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 snow

I would go back to when I was 13 and tell myself not to do the stupid things I ended up doing in my life.

I would also go back and take in a Shakespeare play at the original Globe theatre, one of the first performances.

Finally I would view cherry blossom in Japan. I think I could fit all that into 24 hours 🙂

I would like two trips, so I could visit my maternal grandmother and my father's parents as well. There is so much I would like to ask them, but just seeing them would be enough.

If only one trip was possible, I would visit a beloved great-aunt instead.

Back to when I was a child at a family event. I was so lucky to have a large fabulous family.

I would love it to take me right outside my sons apartment in China then call him and wave to him when he looks out of his window but them how can I leave him again after just one day 😢

I would go back to the time when I was not frightened of flying long distances and hope my GC were born then. I could go out East and see them as newborns as DH did on his own.

Shell Beach, Herm Island - on a sunny day. See you there!

I'm not bothered about visiting other places, but it would be good to go back in time.
Feeling very down atm, my son moved out into his new house just before Xmas and missing him desperately, and yesterday was the anniversary of Mum's death. So I would go back to one of the weekly visits to Mum and Dad when they were alive and my son was small, so that I could hear them all laughing together as Mum and my son chased each other round the garden on a summer's afternoon.

Like GSM, I couldn't bear to see my beloved DM (or DH) again for just one day. My tears are flowing at the thought.
But I would like to see my MiL again. She was quite eccentric. She and my DH didn't get on. He resented the way their house was always untidy, meals rarely on time, clothes not washed etc. And she was a spendthrift at sales so the house was crammed full of junk. But she ran the AmDram in their town and a children's choir and there were many people at her funeral who said they were grateful to her for those opportunities. She also wrote and illustrated some lovely articles about her childhood on a farm in Cumbria for the local paper.
I would ask her how she felt about the relationships with her husband and sons, if she had any regrets.

As its the tardis, I'd head back in time. I'm researching family history and going back to the early 1800s and actually seeing my ancestors might make my job a lot easier!

I think I'd go back to where I've made mistakes in my life, though in the end everything has worked out fine. Strange to think that one different decision will alter absolutely everything that happens to you from that time on.

Any day about 3 years ago, before covid and DH's Alzheimer’s diagnosis, when everything was so normal.

I would go forward to see how my son DIL and granchildren were doing ,in say, 20 years time. I definitely will not be around and no wish to have face to face contact just a sneaky precis peek !

I would magically arrive in Macchu Picu . Always wanted to get there but firstly cash and now health means that it is extremely unlikely I will get there any other way. My other place was Ulan Batour the capital of Outer Mongolia. Have had those two places in my mind from the age of 5. Ah well I did get to many other places but what fun to have the Tardis available to use.