In the hours that followed I used up the new paper I had discovered, covering it with numbers as I calculated all the combinations I needed. With great abandon I used time travel to be in several places at once, until my head reeled and I had trouble working out when I should be to have all the equipment I collected ready and waiting to be transported.

I had not intended to use time travel to move myself and all the equipment back in time, but somehow I must have left the rig switched on, or powered it somehow by trying to move it through a portal.

However it happened, when I tried to move myself and the equipment, and the projector I was using, into the walled garden in my own continuum, rather than the single ring I had projected moving over the line of pallets and projectors once in a smooth transition, several of them danced and swirled around eachother and the line, for what seemed a brief moment - so fast I had only time to experience the joy of its perfection and the lovely blue and gold colours. Even before the first biochemical reaction to the terror of it, it was gone and I was left with all my hair standing on end and gasping for breath in the walled garden in Springtime, with the equipment all lined up before me and my hand still on the button of the projector I had used.

I sat down on the edge of one of the raised beds to recover, then I moved the projector away from the rest of the equipment and looked at the surveillance equipment in the porter's lodge. Allowing for the time taken to drag the plants man's box to the garden, and for my return to place the pin, my time away had been reduced to a few minutes.

Fortunately I had remembered to bring the trolley back with me, and I spent the rest of the morning moving the smaller items of equipment from the walled garden into the Rotunda. There was a problem, however, as I had moved the palletised things through a ring, and the narrow gateway was now a barrier to my physically transporting them, plus they would not fit into the Rotunda even if I could get them there.

I went to get the pin and carried it to the Hall. I rolled up the carpet and spread the contents of the paper recycling bin on the floor, then went back and used a ring to move the pallets.

Finally I checked everything was switched off and I realised how tired I was. My feet ached, everything hurt

I went home, fell onto the bed and slept.