Mitchell Mac

Ah geez please don’t tell me I got carried away and diverted attention from the happy couple 😳🫣 this is why I should just respectfully decline these things…

It was an absolutely wonderful celebration of two superb folks and such a privilege to be there.

And getting to hear the Final version of the 6-Months-in-a-State-of- Perpetual-Redraft Speech of course.

I have never danced like that to Disco Inferno before, but I’ll never do it any other way now…

I’m so glad you made it, and so was the groom!

Happy to report that certain legal goings on are entirely out of my hands 😌

Best man duties call for two of my very favorite people, so Squid signing off 🫡

Will see you there. Can’t be disappointing my new li’l bros can I? 😉 looking forward to one of the speeches in particular (I’ll try not to heckle… maybe)

Woooo! You’ve already been asked for several times, so I’m glad I don’t have to be the one with bad news. So you should, it’s been months in the writing! And I wouldn’t expect anything less 🙂‍↔️

@scramjettracy I hope you know that your personalised briefs as my favourite.

Good…

Grief…

Excellent! I did warn them a former champ was coming so it better be a challenge.

@scramjettracy I hope you know that your personalised briefs as my favourite.

Good…

Grief…

So many variables to this question. So many.

Whose baby is it? Am I responsible for the baby? How responsible am I for the baby? Are the parents nearby? Do I know the parents?

For example, making silly faces at a random baby on public transport to get the satisfaction of watching them laugh? 0/10 scary, 10/10 excellent.

Being entirely responsible for a ridiculously helpless human potato? Climbing up the scale rapidly there. If they can move? Yikes.

Even more, I hate babies being involved in rescues, because it ups the stakes considerably y’know? Not their fault in the slightest, but it does raise the blood pressure.

But on the whole? 2/10. Babies are very sweet, and you get extra smug points if you can get them to snooze.

Shout out to @mitchmatchessocks’s little girl who earned me many smug points. But who also was still fairly potato sized, took her bottle from me entirely without issue… and then promptly spewed all over my head, down the back of my shirt and in the pocket of my jeans. The very last time Uncle Gordo tried that technique for a burp.

Which one? 😛 I think he just replaced his commitment to swimming with a commitment to getting himself into as much trouble as possible. That or he just really enjoys hospital food.

Assuming you mean The Big One.

Fairly quickly, actually, once they allowed the word out. We were at training, all three of us, and someone from Camp Tracy must’ve phoned Coach and he… yeah. Knew it was bad by the look on his face. He told us Gordo was outta surgery and it wasn’t looking good, and they couldn’t tell us any more.

I remember driving home on a call to Freddie and both of us just sitting in absolute silence. I got home and my ex-wife had the holo on with news playing, and they’d got drone footage of the navy recovering the wreck… think we were all convinced he was dead at that point.

But, as it turned out, he remains the most stubborn sonofabitch to walk the planet and refused to die, and there we have it.

🤌🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻 beautiful, Anon. The stuff of dreams right there.

And if there were stitches involved you can be sure the bandages will be out in force (thanks Grandma 😏).

But that’s not the point! 😳😳😳

Shaving helps take off the skin layer and increases your sensitivity to the water, and reduces the skin drag friction to encourage laminar flow over your body as you swim, which increases your Reynold’s number and helps combat inertial and wave drag. Nothing quite like the hot knife through butter feeling after pre-race prep. Not that I do that anymore.

Can’t believe these babies are getting married in less than six weeks 🥹👰‍♀️👰‍♂️💞

Can’t believe I’m getting to recreate the macarena with my favourite Tracy sooner, this time with moustaches 😏 @scramjettracy

But I can’t be your favorite Tracy, silly. That’s Gordo. (I’ll happily be the second though ☺️)

I dunno, his Macarena is looking a little shabby these days. He better up his game, what can I say? 🤷

It was in key last time! If that key was slightly soaked in tequila but anyway. K claimed he had never heard it. The pair of idiots got quite passionate about educating him. This was a year or two ago… anyway.

They have got a disco at this wedding right? I mean if it’s more of a salsa / hoedown evening then I’m cool with either but shoehorning the ol’ Maca into it might seem rude?

Ah yeah when Gordon gets into musical education mode it’s beyond hope. You had the sea shanty double-edition TED talk yet?

You are! Just prepare yourself for the fact that everyone immediately has a li’l crush on Penny when they first meet her. She’s just like that. Gordon knows this, he won’t be phased.

… sea shanty TED talk? Is this in the same vein as Yellow Submarinegate?

Oh, everybody does, do they? We’ll see. Are you talking from experience here or what? 😏

Oh no. Oh no no no. Yellow submarinegate is entry level. Class 101 of a full academic year of marine-related tunes and piratical poetry appreciation. If you let him get started… well. Best of luck to you.

Ha ha oh gee don’t start that again, the tabloids will have a coronary. Experience via observation! I’ve known her since she was four so it wasn’t really something that was a consideration when we first met obviously. By the time she developed The Presence, it was rather too late to have any effect on me. I do enjoy watching it happen though 😏

Piratical poetry? He does poetry?! I’m not sure o ever had him down as singing or doing poetry, what in the world is this coming to?!

… what in the yellow rose of Texas is The Presence?? Sounds like a horror film. What exactly are you watching happen?! So many questions.

Can’t believe these babies are getting married in less than six weeks 🥹👰‍♀️👰‍♂️💞

Can’t believe I’m getting to recreate the macarena with my favourite Tracy sooner, this time with moustaches 😏 @scramjettracy

But I can’t be your favorite Tracy, silly. That’s Gordo. (I’ll happily be the second though ☺️)

I dunno, his Macarena is looking a little shabby these days. He better up his game, what can I say? 🤷

It was in key last time! If that key was slightly soaked in tequila but anyway. K claimed he had never heard it. The pair of idiots got quite passionate about educating him. This was a year or two ago… anyway.

They have got a disco at this wedding right? I mean if it’s more of a salsa / hoedown evening then I’m cool with either but shoehorning the ol’ Maca into it might seem rude?

Ah yeah when Gordon gets into musical education mode it’s beyond hope. You had the sea shanty double-edition TED talk yet?

You are! Just prepare yourself for the fact that everyone immediately has a li’l crush on Penny when they first meet her. She’s just like that. Gordon knows this, he won’t be phased.

… sea shanty TED talk? Is this in the same vein as Yellow Submarinegate?

Oh, everybody does, do they? We’ll see. Are you talking from experience here or what? 😏

Can’t believe these babies are getting married in less than six weeks 🥹👰‍♀️👰‍♂️💞

Can’t believe I’m getting to recreate the macarena with my favourite Tracy sooner, this time with moustaches 😏 @scramjettracy

But I can’t be your favorite Tracy, silly. That’s Gordo. (I’ll happily be the second though ☺️)

I dunno, his Macarena is looking a little shabby these days. He better up his game, what can I say? 🤷

It was in key last time! If that key was slightly soaked in tequila but anyway. K claimed he had never heard it. The pair of idiots got quite passionate about educating him. This was a year or two ago… anyway.