All you really need to know about today is that Alex Horne and I took our sons swimming. The pool was much too cold for a kids’ pool unfortunately. Thomas Horne adapted quite well because he’s a bit more than one and a half. Kit Watson isn’t quite one and he took the whole temperature thing really badly. Alex swears that the pool is normally warmer than that. It was all fairly stressful anyway, and in the changing room one man with a crafty grin started to say something like ‘where do I know you from’, but I managed to sort of brush him off because I only had my pants on.
I’ve only just discovered that some people made an elaborate effort to cheer me up by sending me a message. I won’t go into details but if you’re one of them, thanks ever so much. As always it was much appreciated. If you ARE one of those people, you might now be fretting that this blog hasn’t gone up in time. Or maybe people don’t do that any more. If they do, they’ll be doing it now, because this is bloody late actually. Oops. Sorry about that.
Now. There’s a mouse running round our house. I’m going to and try and catch it. Fingers crossed. See you tomorrow for that history-making FA Cup draw.
CHRIST ALMIGHTY WATSON WE WERE HAVING HEARTATTACKS.
Ahem.
Glad you saw/liked the photo.
Oh we were fretting. Good luck with the mouse. And the FA cup thing that I don’t really understand.
That was far too close for comfort, we were going crazy on Twitter!
I was trying to fret more than slightly until 4 minutes ago, as per the official rules, but it was bloody difficult. Still, I think we kept our heads fairly well. Mostly
Oh and also glad you liked the photo!
Yeah…there was some (a lot) panicking.
CRISIS AVERTED THOUGH.
Anyway. That’s very cute. Although I can imagine that being recognised in your pants at a swimming pool is akin to being recognised in a toilet in terms of awkwardness. Maybe.
So YAY for blog, BOO for the mouse and HURRAH for the FA Cup draw tomorrow.
Fell Out.
I want to make a pun about testing the waters, re. the swimming scenario, but it’s a bit late and my brain isn’t functioning at full capacity (which isn’t much, anyway).
Safe to say panicking on Twitter still occurs. Glad to hear you saw the photo message. Good luck for the FA Cup draw.
I forgot, if anyone else wants to see it the message is here:
www.markwatsonfans.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=513
And with regards to awkward places to meet people, I genuinely pounced on a twitterer I knew in the ladies loos outside the Spiegel Tent this Edinburgh. For that matter i’ve also run into Jon Richardson and Adam Hills right by the gents, so I can’t really comment.
P.S. I was sort of worried, but not much. I mean, I don’t want to say I wasn’t worried, because it reflects badly on me as a fan and blog reader, but you always post each blog on time. Always. So I have confidence. Innit.
(We’ll glide smoothly over how het up I was when that fake blogger hacked your account.)
(I’m going to snitch on Aislinn here – She was so het up about the fake blogger, that she texted me (whilst I was out at a work do) demanding that I rang her IMMEDIATELY because there was an emergency. Cue an evening of panicking that culminated in me dashing out of a packed pub to get enough signal to refresh the blog/Twitter every 30 seconds to know exactly what was happening.)
Also, I am dying of cute at this story (I’ve really been missing my former students recently; any mention of babies doing baby things is liable to make me mushy, and it doesn’t help that one of my favourite students was called Thomas). But poor Kit; I’m sorry he didn’t have more fun at the pool!
Glad you liked the message, hope it worked a bit. Good luck with the mouse…
I don’t like a cold swim either (which is a shame, given that lake swimming ’round here is a chilly matter), so I empathise with young Master Watson.
Aren’t you guys in the middle of some kind of arctic tundra style weather at the moment? I assume this was an indoor pool, or else your kids must be “well hard”.
It’s going on 40 degrees celcius in some places in Australia today and we’ve got one of our biggest music festivals AND the Australian Open final on. Sweaty.
I find swimming stressful when it’s just me so I don’t think I’d cope well with a small child in tow. So well done for trying, even though it was too cold. Perhaps Kit is now a bit tougher as a result, like northern children of the past who used to play out all day even if it snowed.
Hi Mark. Great about the FA Cup draw! Really pleased for you. I’ve just watched Andy Murray beaten soundly by Novak Djokovic in the final of the Australian Open – somehow, this didn’t surprise me. I just can’t take to Murray for some reason but I do think he’s talented. Djokovic deserved his win though. Sorry the pool was so cold for you all and hope you get the mouse sorted out – they love cakes and sweets – not overkeen on cheese oddly enough. Tracey x
Good luck with the mouse! We have a rat in the shed that scares the hell out of me. Tried to hit it with a shovel once but that only angered it, so now i just dont go in there. x
Good luck with the mouse. My mum and I found a dead mouse in our humane mouse trap the other day. Or we think we did anyway, there was a tail hanging out of it, but neither of us had to nerve to actually check. We just put it in a bush.
Aww you Watsonians with the pics are lovely! I’m emerging from QIP-ness to say: Mon 31st I am also seeing Gutted which also describes how I feel that it clashes with Watson, Key & Horne. I have tho managed to get a small Sheffield-based-people trip to Chezzy organized for the 17th. Most excited that you get to do the FA Cup draw. I have fingers crossed that you pick a good opponent for Sheff Weds (either a lower league team against whom we might have a chance, or one of the big ones so we can go out in a blaze of glory on BBC1 on a Sunday afternoon…). That’s all for now (*tiptoes away quietly back to QIP-ness*).
@ Madeleine: 40 degrees celcius?!?!?! *shudders* How do you live in that heat?
@ Mark, re: the mouse, do you know anyone who can lend you a cat? We’ve lent our cat out to people who had mice problems, and their mice never came back, even though the cat was only there for a day.
How was the FA Cup draw Mark, good to see you on there!
Ahh! I can see them again!
I hope Kit enjoys swimming more next time he goes. Everybody should know how to swim
I’m concerned that anyone would try to strike up conversation in a changing room. That’s rather poor form. The least he could’ve done is waited outside the door to pounce on you upon your exit.
Please do catch the mouse. They are rather horrid thins D:
I always hated swimming as a kid but that was mostly because I was afraid of my brother pushing me under.