[ WP ] You have built a time machine . Unbeknownst to you it is only accurate to+/- 100 years and will also transport you to an indeterminate land location on Earth . Tonight is your first test run .

I have built my time machine. Okay, so I'm not the Doc, but it works, sort of, rather hacky-ish build, sort of like a British Leyland car of the 1970s or 1980s. 
 
 I decided to give it a first test run, call it a beta test, whatever you want - see where it takes me back in time. 
 
 I enter the portal, and a blue flash of light occurs, with me being transported across the time abyss. I'm no Professor Paradox or Doctor Who, but I'm my own guinea pig. 
 
 I wake up, a few hours later, in the middle of West Towers Street in Salford, in April 2004, the street has no homes and only a raised strip with a patch of grass separating it from the side-street, but some of its side streets are homes awaiting demolition. Now, we do n't have West Towers Street but Florin Lane and St. Ambrose Lane and it looks all Americanized and stereotypical cityscape neighbourhood, posh cars, crossover SUVs and flowers in boxes outside. Back here in 2004 - it's the Victorian streets of the Dickensian era. I've still got Dickensian to see on box set on the Iplayer. 
 
 How was I to know the time machine would end up taking me in my own backyard? Must have had it in for me or known I was a Northerner. 
 
 My only problem is, how am I going to get out of here? I look around and see few people, but there's an abandoned car, an old Morris Ital sedan, looks like its from the Eighties, and it's covered in pollen, dust and whatnot. 
 
 My time machine worked - but it also seems to have some weird sense of direction. I'll have to travel back to 2016, or is that forward to 2016, and fix this thing to avoid errors. It's obviously got some bugs I just did n't find before now. 
 
 Maybe it is n't so bad being a human guineapig in this context. Or perhaps it is. 
 
 Perhaps the Doctor can help me, or maybe not. My brain hurts. Guess I need a drink.
