And the winner is...

THEA

And if you are having a senior/ blonde moment and you've forgotten what she won...cast your mind back a few days...no, not as far back as that...yup the day of MCN' anniversary... I said that everyone who left a message would be placed in a draw to win a mystery prize.

Woooooooo.

And still the prize is a mystery even to me, but Thea it is on its way to you as soon as you leave me a message telling me where to send it to.

Everyone else can ignore this part. This is just for the winner. Thea, can you please drop me an email (to mickmal1@sky.com) with your address and I'll get the parcel off to you at the weekend?

Now back to everyone else. Thank you all for dropping by youtube to watch and listen to the poem and thank you for all the kind comments. If you're a newcomer and you don't know what I'm talking about WHERE THE FECK HAVE YOU BEEN? And if you are still curious scroll down the blog and you'll come to it.

I'll need to speak to my filmmaker and see if he can come up with any more.

Happy Birthday to me, happy birthday to me, happy birthday may contain nuts, happy birthday...

Would you believe it? May Contain Nuts – my baby – is 1 year old. It seems like it was just yesterday when with just a wee squeeze and an exclamation it plopped out into the world - fully formed, with 10 fingers and toes and barely a hair on its head.

And in the last year it has gurgled, pooped, slept, suffered some teething problems, farted, filled a few nappies worth, learned to support its head on a weak neck, taken a few steps ...and round about now I’m getting bored with the whole “infant” metaphor and I’m going to stop.

Anywho – a whole year! Who’d a thunk it?

When I first started it was all a bit of an adventure ...as in, wooo, I’ve got stuff on the internet I wonder who’ll read it I hope they like it will they hate it will they think I’m an arse...but this quickly turned into a big fat “So What” when it was difficult to tell if anyone was even reading it. See. They don’t tell you in the blog instructions that you could be writing away to your heart’s content with an audience of none. Which is a lonely place to be, let me tell you.

So, a GREAT BIG thank you to everyone out there who regularly visits and comments and makes me feel that what I’m doing is not a complete waste of time. It really does make my day to hear from you.

To celebrate my anniversary I’d like to offer a mystery package to one of you good people out there.

What might be in said mystery package, I hear you ask?

I haven’t a clue yet, I answer. But it will be a mystery. Well, a mystery in the form of a book. And it depends what I can blag from publishers/ authors out there –I might chuck in some of my poems for the deranged among you.

How do you win said mystery package?

Leave me a message.

In this message I want you tell me one thing about yourself that nobody else knows. (I would reciprocate but you guys already know too much about me) I’ll put all the names of the message-leavers in a hat – well not a hat, probably a mug, or a shoe, or maybe there will be so many I’ll need to use a postbag – and the one I pull out gets the mystery package.

It would be ultra smart if some of the regulars who visit and DONT leave a message actually left a message. You know who you are.

So. Leave a message and stand by for some freebies. A mystery of freebies if you will.

It could be YOU.