Before you know it, yes you are in Castle Combe, and there, if you want, you may even make it your home. Unfortunately, you will have forgotten why you went there, where Castle Combe really is, who you wanted to see there, what were the sights you wanted to sea, not only forgetting when you arrived, but also how you might get to go to your real home and your own familiar life.

I wish that on Monday I could go somewhere overseas on holidays for a fortnight.  

Ta da! Thanks to a friendly tax agent, my compliance with a Halloween deadline was duly rewarded, when I was told I had an extension, & therefore needn't have rushed. However, the tax agent couldn't get it all done soon enough to help me pay all the bills before Christmas.  

I wish the kitchen floor would clean itself.  

Shazam! The kitchen floor now cleans itself — by developing an ultra-repellant surface that makes any substance that's dropped on it not only not stick, but bounce right off. So every single particle of dropped or slopped food or other dirt now instantly comes bouncing back to splatter all over your clothes, or if you happen to be looking down, it hits you smack in the face. And the floor remains sparkling clean.

I wish I could be a hobbit living in the Shire. 

Ta Da! You win a free trip to New Zealand, in an RSL raffle, specifically to go to Hobbiton, on the North Island, New Zealand at the Hobbiton Movie Set. The prize includes lodgings at the house I've shown, but the catch is you have to do the cleaning plus act as a tourist guide for the very limited time you are allowed to stay there, before returning to visit a very factual "The Shire" in the Cronulla - Sutherland shire in Sydney.   

I wish I had a crystal ball that actually works, to see how to plan my income & outgoings until June next year.

You now have a crystal ball that actually works... but unfortunately, it only shows things that are to happen in the future of Narnia*, not of New South Wales. 

I wish I could have a new kitchen installed in my home for free. 

* Yes, I know Narnia came to an end in the equivalent of Earth year 1949, but I couldn't resist the alliteration. Besides, the upcoming Netflix adaptation of Narnia is obviously going to put the time period forward into possibly the present day for the later stories, so in that version, the end of Narnia may not yet happen until some time after 2025.  

Hey Presto! In a promotion of the Indian Commonwealth Games for 2030 in Ahmedabad, your packet of Earl Grey tea contains a winning coupon for the construction of a new kitchen in your home, to be done for free. The problem with the new kitchen, however, is that the named kitchen renovators aren't based in UK, and all sorts of red tape, to get permits, the equivalent of green cards, visas, not to mention expensive council approvals, etc would delay the implementation of your free new kitchen forever.

I wish I could go with my family to next year's Glasgow Commonwealth Games, for free.  

You and your family get free tickets and airfare to the games, but the accommodation and food prices are through the roof, so it ends up being a very expensive trip after all.

I wish my socks didn't develop holes.

Hey Presto! You get your wish when a good fairy who knows a thing or two about podiatry, not only trims your toenails and pampers your poor overworked feet but also hands you some new pairs of socks guaranteed not to get holes for a long while. Unfortunately, you wash these socks in hot water, rather than cold as recommended, and so they shrink as a result.

I wish that I could get a dental appointment that won't cost the earth. 

Congrats, your next dental appointment won't cost the earth! It will cost more!

I wish decluttering and organising didn't take so long to accomplish.

Congratulations! With a snap of your finger whatever room you are in will become instantly tidy with no clutter. Unfortunately, whatever good fairy is in charge of this process has no idea what things you actually wanted to keep, and her methods of organization make no sense to you,

I wish I could write what I want to (and more quickly).

Zap! You can now write anything you want to, and at lightning speed... but only in Quenya (and in tengwar script, at that), so only highly educated Elves and complete Tolkien nerds can read and understand it.

I wish I could fall asleep faster when I'm in bed. 

Mary who had a little lamb has arrived with the largest flock of sheep you have ever seen, which have to be counted - 1, 2, 3, 4, and on and on it goes....but before you finally get to the end of this endless line of baa'ing sheep, you lose count and have to start again. baaaa, baaaa. The trouble is....did you set your alarm before nodding off? It wouldn't do to oversleep and be late for whatever you have to do tomorrow. 

Now, I'm falling asleep myself, just playing this game, so I wish some other kind person would do the washing up...zzzz  

Ta da, some kind person does the washing up for you! But, unfortunately, they are very clumsy and the result is a bunch of clean but chipped, dented, cracked, and broken dishes.

I wish I knew how to snowshoe.