Here I Go Again

Look at my face.  It's a bit embarrassing to be honest, I've turned into this walking cliche.

At least I haven't started neglecting my exploration of time and space.  I still head out on trips most days.

But now I have 'this' to come back to.

Edwin really is super sweet.

The trouble is my trips aren't exactly picnic's on the beach.  I downplay the danger when I'm speaking about them to Edwin but the truth is rather than ambling gently into the time traveling box with a parasol over my head protecting me from the sun, I really should be approaching every trip something like this:

Because most trips end up something like this:

Or possibly this:

Like I say, no picnic.

With all that danger you probably think I'm a bit of a masochist to continue doing them.  But they aren't all bad.  I do get to see and experience some truly incredible things and I often bring back items from my travels which greatly add to our quality of life.

Like this guitar for example.

As soon as I figure out exactly what the heck I am doing I'm sure that Edwin is going to love listening to me.

For now he seems to prefer reading in his room out of earshot while I'm busy practising.
The books though are also items that I've brought back with me so that proves my point.

Occasionally I do bring back some rather, er, odd, things.

I'm not even sure how I managed to lug this home or what I was thinking at the time.

In the end it got broken up and used for scrap.  Frankly, it just wasn't me.

Other finds were a little smaller but much nicer. A bottle of bubble bath instigated the making of something I'd been doing without for far too long.

A proper bathtub!

It wasn't too hard really, a bit of the local wood, some resin to waterproof, a bit of tinkering around on the bench to make the plumbing and water heating system and, voilà!  Much easier than the time machine.

Of course we did have to add a small annexe onto the shack because I wanted somewhere sheltered from the rain and the snow. I knew that broken up statue would come in handy!

I'm pretty excited at the thought of my first bubble bath in years!

BLISS!

So you see, even with all of the dangers, the rewards outweigh them.  Besides, I haven't found what I'm looking for yet.  I don't know precisely what that is, but I'm hoping I'll work it out at some point.

For now though, here I go again.