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February 13, 2011 |
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It’s my birthday.
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Archive
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- Fine
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- Suspension
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- Early weather warning
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- Brisbane: pretty much fine
- Easy as (posting a link to a small sample of me talking on) ABC
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- Kony
- Gratitude for Adelaiders
- The Information: Australia
- Adelaide text
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- Expecting to fly
- Six books you might like
- February
- Backpack
- David Hasselhoff would love...
- Name that show
- Death opera fun
- Further welcomes
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- Live train show
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- A big ask
- One more robot
- Ill
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- It's a Mad Bad Ad world
- Congratulations to me
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- BLW
- My day in two words
- Paul Watson: England manager
- Wrong!
- Very Late Review about 14
- Actual winter
- Reduced service
- Snow!
- Re-run
- Mol it over
- Hey, get a sense of humour!
- January
- Setlist
- Doing it right
- Networking
- In your shoes
- The extra information: how to maximise your enjoyment of forthcoming shows
- On that first night
- Goddard gallery
- Take your q(r)
- Up Pohnpei: breaking book news
- Go (north and then) east young man.
- Various thanks
- What are my jokes again?
- Disappointment
- The next shows
- Hello, why are we doing this? (A Can I Help You special)
- The comeback
- 2011
- December
- Winterval
- Resting
- Addendum to yesterday's blog
- 2012 TOUR DATES - MOSTLY ON SALE NOW OR IF NOT BLOODY SOON
- Breaktime
- (on holiday)
- It would be so nice
- Three! Two! One!
- The black market
- Last week at school
- Delays
- One to go
- Invermess
- Pre-2012 tour announcement warm-up
- Goodwill to most men/women
- Normal Service will resume as soon as possible.
- Door-to-door
- Fenton!
- Wem will I see you again?
- (Resting)
- Been to Ledbury, nearly deadbury
- November
- If you tolerate this...
- Daybreak
- Release
- Gary Speed and others
- Very Late Review 12
- The download
- That's me
- Wild wild life
- This show, that show
- Long time no sleep
- (Not much) trouble at t'Mill(om)
- Lakes
- Live from London
- Apple (ex)p(er)ie(nce)
- Intelligence
- Matilda
- Road tripping
- The Narth
- A new Newport
- Peace
- On the way to the (relaunched) forum
- Motorbike; live show fun
- No blog
- Ad value
- Day of rest
- Fireworks!
- 8 Out Of 10 Cuts
- After-match analysis
- Live! Now!
- (Almost) showtime
- October
- THE LTSM WRITES…..
- Bloggone
- The collate news
- Gala night
- Feelgood
- The Hilton
- Small semantic amendment to the often-repeated news of the launch of November 17
- Long weekend
- Remember that news about the launch?
- Let's launch this thing!!
- A close call
- Time difference
- Never mind the strangeness of being with people like Sinitta (Buzzcocks)
- You can't say that
- Runcorn and Aberdare
- Descending order
- Tinker tailor soldier spy comedian
- Book event
- Chest in the middle of my show (pun; 'just in the middle of my show', but the show's in 'Chester'. Right?)
- The Knot
- Llan-dud my show
- Bored 'em
- On the road/rails
- Lucky find
- Overheard
- Lynx
- Launchtime
- I'm sorry I haven't a Clunes
- Warm
- DD
- September
- Ad value
- Yeah so I totally did Live At The Apollo
- Questions, questions
- You need answers
- Jet-lag follow-up
- Further ideas on combating the international scourge of jet-lag
- Nothing
- Give her a hand
- Quick fact
- Live At The Apollo (as in the TV show, not an invitation to squatters)
- Oval ball antics
- Storm/charity
- Blog will appear here
- Nailed it
- What's to come
- Reminder: attend a thing!
- I'll keep it brief
- Counterbacklash
- Flytime
- Northern (Ireland) exposure
- Craic
- The emerald early
- Rugby? Really?
- Influence the Irish
- PJ
- Live and let (me do a) live (show)
- Five find an item together
- A painful case
- Dude, where's my suitcase?
- September
- August
- Legalities
- Zoologistic
- Done and dusted
- The new rock and roll
- We all benefit
- Sectioned
- iPodyssey
- TYSIC time
- Another silly little post
- The iPod has landed
- Improvement
- Slow
- Five
- Last-minute revision
- Another quick one
- Again...
- Tell me more stuff
- 7-3
- Draw a picture here
- Pizza update
- Spinning that wheel
- Broken Britain
- 'I went out to pick a fight with anyone'
- Booking
- Sister support
- The season
- Scare!
- Hat trick
- Mrs Murray
- I am become death, the destroyer of blogs
- July
- Used up most of my 'fringe' titles last year
- Makin' bacon
- Oops sorry
- Literary shame
- Book event! Everyone loves a book event!
- The canon
- Mes droleries
- Winehouse etc
- Bye!
- Fighter pilot
- Normality
- On the water
- Anarchy!
- Emergency blog to compensate for the fact that my computer is a piece of shit and won't publish the real one
- Ha ha bonk
- What were we talking about?
- Catch (up) 22
- (Ep)som thoughts
- Re-organ-isation
- Giles's afternoon
- Very Late Review 11
- Today of all days
- Don't you ever shave?
- IMDMW
- The edit
- Live blog
- DVDeve
- Borderline- feels like I'm going to lose my mind
- June
- Fire!
- I would walk 500 miles
- Free-far-all
- Wimbledon-jovi
- I needed answers
- Posterity
- Southend mistaken identity fun
- That guy off that thing
- What fresh hell is this?
- The blogless scare
- Dad day
- Do not cry out or hit the alarm
- Rugby union
- I got five on it
- Extra extra
- The road home
- Small scale literary shenanigans
- Edinburgh without Edinburgh
- (Some of the) best of the fest: Edinburgh recommendations
- Dermot and me
- Half-time correction fun
- Give a Pole a book: results
- It could have been a brilliant courier
- Those who may not be named
- Hotel shampoo
- Delayed due to signal failure
- Hero/arm
- Post-Brighton
- Tour time
- May
- Foyled
- Nigella?
- Hay!
- A message from beyond
- This is your pilot
- Sound and (euro)vision
- Snuffles, etc
- Flaming gala
- Shebang eve
- Give a Pole a book
- Rapturous return
- Flightplan
- The interpretation of dreams
- In your dreams
- Festivities
- Hate
- Our song for Europe
- O2/DVD/FA
- Invernews
- Eleven paperback promotional social fun
- Advance bookings
- Tumblr
- Katy Perry's dinner
- Another scare
- Done
- Plea for people to be slightly less dogmatic in their opinions both for and against America
- Topicalia
- I'm a survivor
- AV a think
- Back of beyond
- Snooker
- April
- Wedding summary
- Something to consider on the subject of this big old wedding
- Tasman
- Very Late Review 10
- The games
- ANZAC
- That's all folks
- Dude, where's my car?
- Give me (things for) the Horne
- REQUEST STOPS Autumn/Winter 2011
- You look like me (but please don't turn into me)
- Food and hair
- Doona day
- Success is random
- Two night stand
- Paradox
- In case you missed it
- Mots for your money
- I won't feel like I'm on the outside of The Circle
- Day off
- Undici: lost in translation
- This means war
- Sushi
- Temptation
- New material fun
- Radio shop (happening)/radio show (not happening)
- Dark past
- Festen
- Meet them halfway
- Burnout
- March
- Very Late Review Special: Black Eyed Peas - what is going on, exactly?
- Folipping
- Faffwatch
- Skeleton service
- Transit
- Terminal
- The accidental tourist
- Lit.cologne
- The 31: quarterly report
- The blog that might have been
- Perpetual motion
- Time sensitive
- £142
- Something funny for money/something funny for no money
- Safety first
- Don't sweat it
- The Melbourne supremacy
- Two-parter
- Observation
- Moving, keep on moving
- So wrong it's right
- Twitrelief twitstorm
- A change is coming
- When your friends have a baby: a guide
- My day, by Mark Watson
- The long song
- No more pens
- Escape
- Are you rather hot?
- Where should Sarah live?
- After live
- February
- Radio fun
- Mark Watson's Live Address To The Nation
- Something to talk about
- Help!
- A pretty mess
- Postal problems
- Congratulations, your life is still going
- Nonscamtix
- Watsons indisposed
- Slush
- Saturday night's all right (for not doing a gig)
- Route ends
- Many happy returns
- Blog birthday eve
- Baking pleas/booking fees
- Each day is Valentine's Day
- 31
- Birthday imminent
- On the rocks
- REQUEST STOPS: Summer 2011
- Gypsies etc.
- Tour de Devon
- Large-scale events
- Selectively useful energy advice
- Tired?
- Announcement of an announcement
- Won't you give me some food
- Cakes and sentiment
- February II
- January
- The Very Late Review 9
- Happiness is a drawn one (as in the number one) (this song-title pun doesn't quite work, I don't think)
- In the swim
- Coming up: singing, charitable act, Wembley show
- February 28
- Today
- 4,500
- Will appear here
- Brand news
- Omnibus edition
- Enough already
- The gossip
- Your clip has been viewed 8 times
- One night stand
- Fish!
- Jennifer Aniston
- Save the date
- Very Late Review LIVE: Fast and Loose
- Demon day
- Feed
- Find out what it means to me
- That nasty business on Friday
- Tourlet
- Burlesque
- Update- Boyle scandal
- His master's voice
- On the offensive
- Who's gonna drive you home tonight?
- Sketch show/cheese
- Technical question
- Pretty good year
- 31 semi-promises
- December
- 2010
- December
- The doors of 2011
- He's losing it
- 'My heart has flown to you, just like a dove': the best of 2010
- Christmas catch-up
- Very Late Review special edition: This year's love
- A Gift Horse (Part Two)
- A Gift Horse (Part One)
- Eve
- Things I learned in 2010
- Australia/NZ dates 2011 (and some other snippets)
- Census working overtime
- Clear-up
- In the current climate
- Cold light of day
- Actual Mark Watson writes
- Fear not....
- Goodbye
- Something which MIGHT NOT HAPPEN
- My gift is my song
- Limited connectivity
- Anything you want
- Review of the review of the year
- After the Lord Mayor's show
- Backstage blog
- I'll tell you where to go
- All Apollo-gies
- Return to form
- Who needs Bosley?
- Little donkey, on a dusty road
- You say it's your birthday - it's my birthday too
- Breaking the silence
- Ice, ice, baby
- The Very Late Review 8
- November
- Snow!!!
- Flood defences
- Winterfloods
- Everything's interesting
- Chocolate dog
- Post-tester euphoria
- Tester
- He likes to shoot his gun
- Appeals
- Good night and good lurk
- Just lurking
- Catch-up service
- Soap/racists/banana/snake
- I'm gonna live forever (in a zoo) (maybe)
- It's all about soul
- Kindness Day debrief: cheesecake, chicken and religious tolerance
- He will wear the bear again
- It's a Dundee-al
- SPECIAL OFFER BLOG: Sob stories for seats
- One good turn
- Kindness and exuberance
- Be honourable!
- Kindness Day 1: I would do anything for money (but I won't do that)
- Hey Presto(n)
- Fighting talk over Fighting Talk
- You're (not) the voice
- If you only watch one thing this year
- Project Preston: an unstoppable juggernaut
- Megan's bike
- NaNoWriMoWorKiDay
- Lynx
- All the news that's fit to print
- October
- Saucer of milk
- We welcome your feedback
- The future's not ours to see
- Safety's sake
- Competitions breed success
- Aberystwyth mon amour
- Service resumed
- Service interrupted
- Zzzzzzz
- Awards/rewards
- Speed data-ing
- Popular dilemmas
- Heeby-jeebies
- Sabotage!
- 'Kicks Off' kicks off
- Glasnost
- Life is not a rehearsal
- Lancastrian logistics
- Project Preston
- Pressed on
- Comment is free
- Half-minchathon
- Breather
- (Give) coffee (a) break
- The Very Late Review 7
- Afterwards...
- Preemptive strike
- And they're off
- Tour eve
- Riddle me this
- Watsonian institute of rhyme
- Seasonal Affectation
- September
- Dundee! Dundee!
- In my neighbourhood
- A Millione love song
- Saving a life, mashing up a banana
- What else is new?
- I would walk 2000 miles: iPod latest
- Not-lag
- Please switch off your mobile devices
- Food, pens, graphs, air traffic control
- You can trust me
- I was kissing Valentino by a crystal-blue Italian stream
- Breasts!
- Pants and pizzas
- Early morning call
- A bit about running and a bit about relativism
- No dramas
- This just in
- A design for life: Can I Help You? 5
- Sneak preview
- Come pick me up, I've landed
- Departure lounge act
- Packing blankets
- Derren-gement
- Live from MTV Studios in Camden
- Can I Help You? 4
- Result!
- Under starters' orders
- Waterblog
- Heat
- Random acts of kindness
- August
- De-construction
- I'm bound to pack it up
- Mark's (second) last night in town
- Better! - TYSIC update
- Ill communication
- Where you're at
- Venus and Serena understand
- Just about fine again
- Paperweight
- The big sleep
- Quids for kids
- Everybody shirts
- Shirt happens
- Cloud zero
- The Very Late Review 6
- Six months!
- Day off
- Howes steps in
- Heal (a few people in) the world
- Four minutes to go
- Hospital fun
- So fair and foul
- He bangs the drums
- iPod Challenge Update - These charming men (and women)
- Houdini
- The aftermath
- You're hot and you're cold
- Opening night
- In an interstellar burst I am back to save the universe
- Blog plucked from jaws of disaster once more by plucky Watson
- Green
- ...and relax
- July
- PS
- Live action
- Duvet
- iMark
- The night watch
- Casualty
- In the light of the octopus
- The circus
- Brief blog after gig walking home with nappies
- Cheer up Deborah
- A tired man rambles
- Bits and pieces
- Charity begins at home
- Welcome home
- PLatitudes
- Personal Angel or Gullible Fool?
- Need-to-know basis
- The Very Late Review - Part the Fifth
- Extra extra
- Not in my makeup
- Muse and musos
- How to Speak Gibberish
- Emergency Blog
- Bye for now
- Challenge! (For while I'm gone)
- The Very Late Review 4
- Drumming and diving
- Pique-nique
- Where's Watson?
- Literature in the city
- Testament to the day in verse
- Your questions answered
- Watson TV
- June
- I'll tell you what's funny
- Exemplum, exemplum
- Rev
- A laugh, a joke, a sentiment wasted
- Weary efforts
- Get confident, stupid! (The campaign continues)
- Mark the weak
- Lightning and the Budget
- Trouble
- Little journey: the iPod Challenge continues
- I am your father
- Dress code
- Negativity: an apology
- Can I Help You? 3
- Lost work
- Just to be the man who walked 1000 miles
- An experiment in democracy
- The psychic tour diary
- TYSIC news and moth poem
- Pigeon-fancying
- The Very Late Review 3
- World in motion
- This is a test
- Sorbet
- BAFTA the love is gone
- Cancellation notice
- Half an advert
- Pillow talk
- Nature/nurture
- Jobcentre
- Breather
- May
- New Challenge: Solve Chris's Life
- Happiness for you and me
- Unfinished business
- Paranoid man(droid)
- Love and marriage
- Into Africa
- The questions run too deep for such a simple man
- The winner takes it all
- Nothing
- Holding blog
- The age
- A piece of the a(u)ction
- Careless talk costs lives
- Balls
- Coming back to me
- Pausing: An Underrated Pleasure
- The Cure For Thinking About What Ails Ya
- How I Stop Myself Thinking About Death
- An Underrated Pleasure: The TV License
- This charity trip
- Gay life and football
- Camping out
- The longest mistake ever
- Strange meeting: The MP3 Challenge commences
- Aid
- Ballad of big nothing
- The laws have changed
- What a fool believes
- I dreamed a dream
- Mr Motivator
- New and improved
- (Some) power to the people
- April
- Would I lie to you?
- Can I Help You? 3
- The £2500 breadcrumbs
- Allow me to introduce myself
- The eleven bloody winners
- Where's the party?
- Give me a bloody book competition BREAKING NEWS
- Pierre pressure
- Me me me
- Like spinning plates
- Long train runnin'/Listen to the music
- Give me a bloody book! - competition
- Work-in-progress shows
- Paxman
- Can I Help You? 3
- Severe tired damage
- Mark'll fix it (possibly)
- The Very Late Review: Episode Two
- Frankie, my dear, I don't give a damn
- A light-hearted look at Down's Syndrome
- The National
- Edinburgh: best of times, worst of times
- I am the mob
- I am the mob
- Another bullshit night in Suck City
- Can I Help You? 2
- Pod! show me magic
- Can't you see I'm trying, I don't even like it
- The who
- Your problems solved
- THE VERY LATE REVIEW: EPISODE ONE
- March
- We all stand together
- Before and after
- Can I help you? Can you help me?
- Can I (not) have the bill, please?
- Bloglet
- A meeting with the people upstairs
- Microchallenges
- Try not to be too much of a c--- today
- The very late review
- holding on for tomorrow
- Sports and wine
- The corrections
- The director's cut
- Cheese and cheer: TYSIC Week 2
- The bleeding heart show: MP3 competition result and plan
- There can be only one: MP3 Competition final day
- Please, please, please let me get what I want: The MP3 Competition
- Long, long, long
- Once around the blog
- Public joking: the rough guide
- Up with people
- Let's hope for the best
- Keeping ourselves out of mischief
- Cold blooded old times
- On the seventh day
- The day the music didn't die
- Poorly-organised thoughts on writing
- We are the challengers
- This one's optimistic
- How to operate with a blown mind
- Get confident, stupid!
- February
- 'I got your hidden track right here, pal!'
- Self-Improvement Challenge: Update
- Ten-Year Self-Improvement Challenge
- Eleven
- Babyville
- Congratulations, your life is over
- F (as they say) AQ
- This wouldn't have happened when I was young
- This wouldn't have happened in my day
- I mind your language
- The Coles' marital problems and, to a lesser extent, my appendix
- Everything I learned in my twenties (slightly abridged)
- Ten-year blog starts today
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Posted by The Crisp Packet Heckler on February 17, 2011
Many Happy Returns Mark – hope you had a good one!
Mr CP Heckler,
Manchester
Posted by Vicus Scurra on February 15, 2011
Bloody happy birthday. Love and peace.
Posted by Briony on February 15, 2011
It’s somewhat late, but Happy Birthday!
Posted by Catherine aka Cathy on February 15, 2011
I hope you had a wonderful day! Kit’s is coming up soon. I started reading the blog a couple of days after he was born, if memory serves me correctly. But then again, my brain is made of swiss cheese. Cheers!
Posted by Rachael on February 14, 2011
Damn, that was ‘party’ wasn’t it? “It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to”. oh well, it made sense in my head.
Posted by Rachael on February 14, 2011
I hope you didn’t cry because you wanted to though.
Posted by Ingrid on February 14, 2011
I said it before but I’ll say it again… Happy Birthday!
xx
Posted by Lydia on February 14, 2011
Yay [: I hope you had fun x
Posted by A lot of Rachels on February 14, 2011
Hope you had a good birthday!
Posted by Jen on February 14, 2011
haha…love this…please read last blog for full birthday tune from meeee!Jx
Posted by Sephy on February 14, 2011
Happy Birthday for yesterday! x
Posted by Tom Beasley on February 14, 2011
Happy Birthday Mark! A day late is better than not at all, right?
You can have a Happy Valentine’s Day as well just to keep with the times. xD
Posted by Linsey on February 14, 2011
Happy Birthday Mark! It was my birthday yesterday as well, and I remember thinking “if it’s my birthday, it must be Mark Watson’s birthday as well!” Hope you had a good day! x
Posted by Craig on February 14, 2011
Happy birthday for yesterday!! Hope you had a good one!
Can I ask where we’re emailing nice things to for the blog’s birthday? Hope i’m not too late!
Posted by Britt on February 14, 2011
Joyeux anniversaire for yesterday. Hope you had a lovely day.
Posted by Phill on February 14, 2011
Doh! Didn’t check this yesterday, sorry I missed your birthday. Hope you had a great day anyway, enjoy being 31
My wife just had her 30th birthday on 4th Feb, so any tips you have on surviving the transition from being in your 20s to your 30s would be appreciated 
Posted by Dan on February 14, 2011
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday dear Maaaark
Happy birthday to you
(Sung)
Posted by Anji on February 14, 2011
I hope that the morning after the night before isn’t too bad for you today! Hope you celebrated in style and had a wonderful day yesterday!
Posted by Tracey on February 14, 2011
Hi Mark. Hope you had a great day yesterday – enjoy Valentine’s Day!
Tracey x
Posted by Corey on February 14, 2011
Happy Birthday Mark!!
Posted by Joelle on February 14, 2011
Nice and concise!
Happy birthday!
I hope you have had a good day so far
Posted by elin on February 14, 2011
happy birthday to you!
Posted by Juliet on February 14, 2011
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Oh I love birthdays. I hope you have the most amazing day, you deserve it Mark. Thanks for sharing so much with us and happy birthday to you, from this side of the planet
Posted by Gabi on February 14, 2011
Happy ruddy birthday!
Posted by Madeleine on February 14, 2011
Happy Birthday! Hope it was FANTASTIC!
Posted by Tibbs on February 14, 2011
Woo!
Posted by Hannah Mae on February 14, 2011
Happy birthday! xxx
Posted by Corry on February 14, 2011
x
Posted by Misha on February 14, 2011
Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday Dear Mark. Happy Birthday to you!
I got a job today.
Posted by Hannah on February 14, 2011
HUZZAH! Happy Birthday!
Posted by Katy on February 14, 2011
Happy Birthday! I hope you had an awesome day
Posted by Kathryn on February 13, 2011
Happy Birthday!
Enjoy the last 6 minutes, anyway.
Posted by Helen on February 13, 2011
Happy Birthday! X
Posted by Cathy (traineeflorist) on February 13, 2011
Yay! you got your blog post in for today, I can go to bed and sleep now! Nite birthday boy ….
Posted by Carl on February 13, 2011
Wahey!
Posted by louisel on February 13, 2011
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Hope that you’ve had a wonderful day
Posted by Alex on February 13, 2011
Brilliant blog. Happy birthday! Hope it’s been splendid.
Posted by Ally on February 13, 2011
Happy Birthday!
Posted by DeborahF on February 13, 2011
Happy Birthday
Posted by Josh (the magnificent one) on February 13, 2011
BEST
BLOG
EVER
Posted by Katie on February 13, 2011
Happy birthday, love! Hope you’ve had a brilliant day.
x
Posted by h2osarah on February 13, 2011
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Although I’ve already wished it elsewhere. I hope you are out celebrating. I will buy you a pint on your half birthday. Because we’ll be in the same city then. And, because it’s a mandatory question, how does it feel to be 31?
Posted by Zoe Fell on February 13, 2011
That it is Mark, that it is.
I hope you had a lovely day.
xx
Posted by Emily on February 13, 2011
Happy Birthday!