Plot:
Jeannie Baker discovered that an old ring she bought at a jumble sale had magic powers, and that she had become the slave of the ring. She could be summoned back to Roman Britain whenever Cottia, the original owner, needed her.
Jeannie of the Ring – Judy: 893 (19 February 1977) – (?)
Some mixed-up magic causes Marlina, granddaughter of the ancient sorcerer Marlin, to come into the present day. Her magic is still a little mixed up as she falls in with Agatha Haggit, who is also a witch from the past. She then enrols in a school to protect it from Agatha, who believes the magic touchstone is hidden there.
Polly Peckham has a pair of trousers covered in patches. Each patch comes from a different time period, and whenever Polly rubs a patch, she time travels to that respective time period.
Polly’s Patches – Debbie: #322 (14 April 1979) – #329 (2 June 1979)
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Schoolgirls Jill Dentry and Sandra Grey had time-travelled back to Victorian times by means of a moonstone ring belonging to Merlin, magician at King Arthur’s court. Merlin needed them to bring back something called the ‘ Black Dolphin of the Sun’ to help break the spell which held him trapped in the 20th century. The girls ended up in a sinister school run by Mrs Hogg and a brutal-looking porter called Thresh.
In the year AD 4069, Velocity Val and her younger brother, Willie-Shazam, have tumbled through a rent in Time and fallen back two thousand one hundred years. Using the powers of Independent Motion, they get mixed up in an air show one day, and Val demonstrates her superiority over ordinary flying machines.
Velocity Val – Judy: #480 (22 March 1969) – (?)
Plot:
Susie Watson discovers that her new home comes with an unexpected feature – a door that can send her time travelling to the year 1967. There Susie makes friends with a girl called Allison.
Aurora, a girl living in the year 2100 A.D., takes part in a time travel experiment, but instead of travelling back 100 years in time , she arrives at Druidsmere, a girls’ boarding school, the year 1965, (present time for the story). She is mistaken for Dawn Ashley, a new girl who was expected at the school but who has had to go into hospital. Aurora, who can read minds and hypnotise people with a glance, takes Milly Malone and her friend Ann Simpson into her confidence and tells them she is lost in time. 
Tessa Worth had found a time-travel machine in the shape of a giant rabbit, named Flopear. When she pressed a button she didn’t realise that she would be taken to the Planet Xargo, where Flopear was originally built as a birthday present for the mean tempered Princess Meana. Eventually she is able to get back to Earth, Even after she returns home, she continues to spend time travelling the universe with Flopear, as part of her job as Deputy to a Universal Dictator.
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Lorna Butterwick is an imaginative schoolgirl who writes historical pieces for the school magazine. When she falls asleep she travels back in time (although there is ambiguity to whether it is all a dream or not), and is able to take notes about the particular period of time.
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Plot
Toni Dayley’s family move to a bigger, newly built house, down the street from their old home. Toni notices a new couple with a baby have moved into her old house. She soon becomes friends with the “Baileys” and offers to babysit the baby. Passing by one evening a small fire breaks out in the sitting room and Toni warns the Baileys. After all her help, they decide to name the baby after her. (They had previously been undecided between the names Hannah and Natalie). Toni is thrilled about this, although she is reminded that her parents had said their was a fire in their house previously and it scorched the same wall.
After this Toni, notices similar things keep happening to baby Toni, that happened to her as a baby as well. Like baby Toni’s gran dies, her christening is cancelled when she gets German measles and she comes third in a beautiful baby competition. The one thing that convinces her that it just a bunch of coincidences is that their surnames are different. Then she hears a postman calling Mrs. Bailey; Mrs Dayley, she realises that she had assumed the family were Baileys when she had answered the door to a delivery man on the first day and he had called them Baileys, mistakenly.
She goes home and find old photos of her family and sees they are the same as the Baileys/Dayleys. She rushes over to tell them but a new family has moved into the house and the spell seems to have been broken. Toni is sad at first because she feels she has lost friends, but then realises that she still sees them every day as they are actually her own parents and she is baby Toni!
Thoughts
So this is a story that involves time travelling, but as the protagonist doesn’t know she’s travelling back in time, the character/story is more focused on the mystery of the odd occurrences. There are several hints that she is back in the past. For the most part she only meets the young family at their house, so she does not interact with the past much. Only once do they go to a fair, and Mrs Dayley says comments on the new music, which is old to Toni. There is also a few incidents where, they comment that they can’t find Toni’s house and she’s like “its the new one” and they brush it off as just not being able to place it, oh well! She is also the only one to interact with the family, although her present parents arrange to meet family on a few occasions, something always comes up like the Christening being cancelled.
While this story isn’t really grounded in reality, in order for the story premise to work, a major plot point is that is that Toni doesn’t see any physical resemblance between her parents and the “Baileys”. Yes they have got older, new haircuts and the such, but Toni doesn’t see any resemblance until she finds an old photo, that seems odd. It’s only 14 years or so, it seems strange that that they would look so different, also a bit odd that she had never seen old photos of her family!
Another thing is, I wonder what the younger parents reaction to Toni disappearing was. Considering they named their daughter after this girl and they were going to make her the Godmother, did they ever wonder where she went to? The mother comments on Toni having the same top as an old babysitter, but it doesn’t seem like it brought back terrible memories of a young girl vanishing. Maybe they rationalised it as she moved away quickly or something? But if she recognised the top that a babysitter wore years ago, wouldn’t that trigger memories like wait a minute she was called Toni as well and she looked a lot like you do now! Or maybe I shouldn’t over think this!
Other than these issues with some plot points, the art is decent, the story is fun, and the characters are likeable. This was printed in the 90s, which was a time where a lot of stories involved romance (which I do like, some of the time too), so this made a nice change, a story with a focus on a mystery and mostly just a girl forming a good friendship with her parents as young adults. There are other stories where girls actually knowingly made friends with younger versions of relatives, but I think her not knowing is part of the charm (even if it does cause some story problems!).