Outrageous Shenanigans!

Well, it has most certainly been a very eventful day around here! I have finally got to the bottom of all that nonsense with the second time travel expedition. There have been some absolutely outrageous shenanigans I can tell you, absolutely outrageous!

If I had known in advance that this was going to happen, I would never have allowed it to happen. Never!! I am told this is why they had to keep it quiet, paradoxes were mentioned and remembering alternate timelines and some other such jargon.

Still absolutely outrageous!

I have been assured it was entirely accidental, nevertheless, we must endeavour to be more careful in future!

Whats that?

Oh yes, good point!

Lucy has been reading this over my shoulder, she does that a lot you know, and she informs me that I should tell you what went on. I suppose she is right!

I was sitting in my office this morning, minding my own business and enjoying a nice bit of leftover perch cobbler, a very fine mid-morning snack you know, when my office door burst open and in rushes Lucas. He was extremely excited and, oddly devoid of his hat. He immediately starts babbling, “Uncle Lutra” he says, “I am not the now me I am the last week me, which is also the now me, but only for me, for you I am the past me! I am in the future and you aren’t!”

This was an extremely confusing statement and no mistake! I was somewhat baffled and I almost dropped my cobbler!

I had absolutely no idea what was going on. I attempted to get Lucas to stop waffling and tell me what he was talking about, and, for that matter, where his hat had gone! It is an integral part of the school uniform, he needs to wear it! Can’t have young otters going around bare headed you know! He was still extremely excited, and positively babbling about falling and the time wheel, and it being just after I had left. We were getting nowhere at quite a rapid pace!

I was beginning to think that we should start all over again, when my office door burst open all over again.  Peter and Zsofia came rushing in. Good thing I had put down my cobbler by this time, it doesn’t do to waste snacks. Especially with a good deal of confusion all around. I had gathered my wits a little by this time however and I had to put an end to all of this rushing around and bursting into offices all willy nilly. I demanded to know what was going on. I told them I’d have no more elusiveness, and that someone had better jolly well tell me what was going on right now.

None of them seemed to know what I was talking about, they claimed that they hadn’t been secretive, they also claimed that the last two weeks hadn’t happened yet.

After much to-ing and froing and people talking over each other, it appears that these three were from two different parts of the past. Peter and Zsofia, from the second time exhibition and Lucas, somehow, from the field trip last week. I am still slightly fuzzy on how he ended up here.

He claims that he was looking into the tank at the same time as his young friends were trying out the time wheel. He claims he slipped and fell into the tank, and his hat fell off in all the commotion…

All Peter and Zsofia know is that they arrived, and seconds later Lucas turned up and dashed off immediately to tell me all about it. I was his first port of call apparently. The whole thing was starting to give me a headache. I sent them all off with strict instructions to get Brian and Debbie to send them back to when they belonged. I also told them that they probably shouldn’t mention this to me. I know I didn’t know before today, and if they tell me last week then I will know before I find out.

This is still giving me a headache! I need to go and track down a beverage to accompany my perch cobbler, possibly some of that fine Scottish Whisky will do the trick. Yes, that sounds like a first rate idea! Then I am going to talk to Brian about fitting that tank with railings. Yes, railings, that will do the trick, and some sort of tank security. Then, of course I need to talk to my sister Linda, Lucas’s mother, about what we are going to do with the scallywag!