Problems with the Space-Time continuum

(Or Does anyone have a spare Tardis?)

Last summer whilst traveling in the van with the team from England we played a game with a pack of cards. Each person takes one card and the person with the highest card asks the person with the lowest card any question they like. I still remember being asked, “If you could have one wish, what would it be?” I thought for a few moments and answered, “I wish all my friends could live together in the same area rather than being spread around the world.”

Yesterday I got prints made of some of the pictures we took in Ottawa and today I put them into a big photo album that already has some pictures of folks back at home in the UK. I took the opportunity to look through them all and felt a bit damp eyed as I smiled at what I saw. I do miss folks but I am learning to enjoy looking at photos without feeling too melancholy, to look back and enjoy the memories rather than pining for the times and people pictured.

Still, there does remain the problem in the space-time continuum - that our friends are spread over thousands of miles and it’s difficult to see them. We missed being able to just drop in on my parents when we moved away from Nottingham to go to Morpeth, three hours drive away, but living in Canada is a different league! Even Gord and Glenda, also in Canada, are five hours flight away. (Six if you have to have the plane de-iced a couple of times when touching down en route as happened on the way back to Lloyd a week or so ago!)

Am I being morose or feeling depressed, no, but I do miss our friends and family who are elsewhere despite having some wonderful friends here in Lloyd. However, if I was asked the same question again, I’d answer it differently now, a little more realistically than hoping for all my friends to live in the same area. I’d simply ask for a Tardis* so we could go and visit anyone we wanted whenever we felt like it.
We’d want a Tardis rather than just a teleporter because there is a 7 hour time difference between Lloyd and the UK so we couldn’t just pop over for supper and a game of Balderdash ‘cos everyone would be in bed, we’d need to move a little in time as well as space!! Any Timelords out there reading this blog got a spare Tardis?

In the meantime, I shall have to make do with staying in touch by e-mail, Skype, MSN chat, newsletter and blog and hope that it’s not too long before I see you all again.

Miss you folks,
God bless and lots of love,

Steve

*The Tardis was Doctor Who’s time and space traveling machine for those not familiar with the name – if you’ve not heard of Doctor Who, he was the main character of a TV series of the same name made by the BBC, one of the longest running TV shows in the world at one point. For the longest time as a kid I thought it was Tardisk, but then I realized it was an acronym for Time And Related Dimensions In Space. You can find out more on the BBC website.

Oh, and yes I do score VERY high on the dweeb, geek and nerd tests.