Mark Watson

That's lovely.

Ah, ok, thank you!

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My novel 'Contacts' is set 7 years ago today; also the day I started working on it. I wrote a little reflection on it on my Patreon, as a free article. It might interest you if you read the book, or are just interested in writing. But if not, IT WILL NOT. SWERVE IT.

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Same, I still assume 'Dad' is me. Turns out it's a lot of people.

His coach on the sidelines is doing the 'VAR check' mime with his fingers, for sure.

I've just seen this... good heavens.

Maybe you were always like this but for me, it's partly to do with early-years parenting. For years - even when they were bigger - I couldn't relax and shake the suspicion that there was something that DID need doing, or I was just suspicious of my own right to free time.

One of the biggest 'man on' instances of all time.

I Guess I Just Wasn't Meant For These Pines? Nope, that wasn't quite worth typing the whole thing out.

I did the Great North Run with Mo Farah, and I've got to admit he just had a bit too much for me over that distance.

At the end of a MARATHON.

I might have said this before, but my kids and I ALSO remember Onward as an 'end times indicator' moment. Also Sonic The Hedgehog. For a while I wondered if that would be the last film I ever saw in a cinema.

I have no idea what this refers to.

It's the way he crashes to the floor instead of through the tape which 0.01 seconds earlier was right there where he could see it. It's like a dark cartoon.

New 'my hopes and dreams being crushed in the space of single second' meme just dropped.

And I'm not saying I'm above that, as a person. But this year I did myself proud.

Excellent example.

Lovely tune, this. I had it as one of my walk-in tracks in Edinburgh in about 2018, which means I've only recently been able to start listening to it again without feeling like I'm meant to be doing something.

Those composers will never know how lucky they were, long after their deaths.

Hahaha fine.

'The aria finally reached an audience when the BBC's Desmond Lynam...'

Quite right. I posted 'thanks for the birthday messages' the day AFTER, so there could be no suspicion I was trying to provoke.

Hahaha. I think there's a good chance neither of us will forget it. But he would definitely be in more trouble.

Wonder how far up the 'O Sole Mio' page you find a mention of ice-cream.

What a fax that was.

This has got to be one of the all-time biggest gaps between a song's general vibe and intentions and its 'made famous by...' (although as Rob suggests, this version of its history is a BIT slimmed-down).

Yeesh, for a second I thought I'd forgotten YOUR birthday but I'd got my blues and greys mixed up, as it were.

Can you blame me, I get £50 every time someone clicks on it.

In the circumstances I COULDN'T open with it.

I wasn't even consulted.