About Time Page #9

The crowd, enchanted by the

younger player, are seduced

by memories of the older

player's illustrious past.

My God, I've won.

I haven't won in years.

You finally got good.

What's my prize? Apart from the

Olympic gold medal, of course.

A kiss will have to do.

A kiss?

I get you.

This is it, then?

This is it.

?t's my last bit of extra time.

The baby is

completely on the way.

Congratulations.

My son.

My dad.

Is there anything

at all I can do?

Is there anything

you want to do?

I don't know. There is this

one thing.

A quick little walk.

Totally against the rules,

of course,

but if we don't change a thing,

if we're very careful,

it shouldn't do any harm.

?t would be nice.

I'm really trying.

I'm really trying.

Get down low.

Total defeat.

I'm tired.

Thanks, Dad.

So I'm almost

up-to-date with my story.

As all families do, we got

used to life after death.

And it was still fine.

And things settled back into their

traditional rhythms season after season,

and are much as

they have always been.

And we've got used to

Kit Kat being happy again.

And then we got used

to her being a mum.

Albeit not a very

good or even safe one.

And in the end,

I think I've learned the final

lesson from my travels in time.

And I've even gone one step

further than my father did.

Okay, I'll do the kids.

No, don't worry. I'll do them.

Yeah, you do them,

you lazy bum.

The truth is, I now

don't travel back at all.

Not even for the day.

I just try to

live every day as if

I've deliberately

come back to this one day

to enjoy it as if it

was the full final day

of my extraordinary,

ordinary life.

Hello, you're down already. That's great.

Thank you so much for that.

And in we go.

Posy? Posy!

That's fine.

We're all travelling

through time together

every day of our lives.

All we can do is do our best

to relish this remarkable ride.

Yes, yes, yes...

Okay, I'll see you then.

Bye-bye.

See you later.

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