On Being Happy

by craig on May 6, 2009 2:27 pm in Other

Nadira and I were married this morning.

90 Comments

  1. mary

    6 May, 2009 - 2:30 pm

    Congratulations and best wishes for many happy years together.

    Any photos?

  2. Jives

    6 May, 2009 - 2:35 pm

    Congratulations Craig!

    I wish you both all the very best for the future.

  3. David T

    6 May, 2009 - 2:38 pm

    Congratulations!

  4. Alasdair Cameron

    6 May, 2009 - 2:44 pm

    Congratulations! Well done mate.

  5. NomadUK

    6 May, 2009 - 2:47 pm

    Rice

    Congrats.

  6. NomadUK

    6 May, 2009 - 2:48 pm

    That was meant to be a clever use of pseudo-HTML-style tags which obviously got filtered out by the comments code. Oh, well.

    Congrats anyway.

  7. Laurence

    6 May, 2009 - 2:49 pm

    Congratulations to you both. Keep doing what you do, you treasure!

  8. Geoff

    6 May, 2009 - 2:49 pm

    Congratulations, very best wishes for the future for both you and Nadira.

    Haven’t posted before on here, but I’d like to take this opportunity to thank you as well for some great insight into how this country operates at the top.

  9. xsdogskin

    6 May, 2009 - 2:51 pm

    So, we won’t be seeing any posts for a while?

    Congrats!

  10. Johan van Rooyen

    6 May, 2009 - 2:53 pm

    Congratulations! And not too soon, eh! ;)

  11. Abe Rene

    6 May, 2009 - 3:00 pm

    Congratulations! All the best for the future.

  12. ken

    6 May, 2009 - 3:01 pm

    Congratulations and All Best Wishes.

    Whatever you do, keep this blog going!

  13. avatar singh

    6 May, 2009 - 3:07 pm

    congratulations to both of you . It has been nice reading your blog and learning from it. have a nice honeymoon!

  14. eddie

    6 May, 2009 - 3:13 pm

    Well done and congratulations. Hope you have enough energy left over to keep blogging.

  15. tony_opmoc

    6 May, 2009 - 3:14 pm

    Congratulations,

    Presumably Nadira is about to give birth as well. Were both events planned for the same day – or has the birth already happenned?

    Tony

  16. regular

    6 May, 2009 - 3:23 pm

    Much happiness to you both .. all!

  17. Jaded

    6 May, 2009 - 3:33 pm

    You’re not allowed to be happy in this world! Preposterous. :-0

  18. Yoav

    6 May, 2009 - 3:34 pm

    Congratulations.

    I’ve only just discovered your blog so I’ve only just found out you’re rector of Dundee University I remember when you were president of the Dundee University Students Association !!!

  19. Rowdy

    6 May, 2009 - 3:38 pm

    Congratulations, i wish you both every happiness and success.

  20. Sam

    6 May, 2009 - 3:47 pm

    Many many congratulations!

  21. selma

    6 May, 2009 - 3:49 pm

    Congratulations :)

  22. George Laird

    6 May, 2009 - 3:49 pm

    Dear Craig

    Many congratulations and hope you have a long and happy marriage.

    Yours sincerely

    George Laird

    The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow

  23. JimmyGiro

    6 May, 2009 - 3:52 pm

    Splendid.

    Did you save some cake for Charles?
    :) )

  24. rich

    6 May, 2009 - 3:55 pm

    Well done, congratulations!

  25. George Dutton

    6 May, 2009 - 4:00 pm

    Congratulations Nadira and Craig.May you have many happy years together.

  26. RickB

    6 May, 2009 - 4:02 pm

    Congratulations!

  27. anticant

    6 May, 2009 - 4:03 pm

    May your life together be long and full of mutual support and contentment through good and not so good times.

    Next year – if I’m still here – I shall celebrate 50 years of companionship with my Civil Partner.

    A goal to aim at?

  28. Chris

    6 May, 2009 - 4:08 pm

    Many congratulations to you both and all the very best for the future. May good fortune follow you both for all of your days.

  29. Grumpy Old Man

    6 May, 2009 - 4:38 pm

    I hope that the pair of you have a long, prosperous and happy marriage. Craig,you deserve a quantum of solace.

  30. Stevie

    6 May, 2009 - 4:44 pm

    Congratulations to you both – what wonderful news! Good luck, health and happiness with all the future brings xx

  31. subrosa

    6 May, 2009 - 4:52 pm

    And about time too if I may say so! My sincerely congratulations Craig to you and your dear wife. May all your troubles be little ones.

  32. Tim Ireland

    6 May, 2009 - 5:00 pm

    Congratulations!

    My best wishes to you both.

  33. Akheloios

    6 May, 2009 - 5:01 pm

    Congratulations

  34. Dave Cole

    6 May, 2009 - 5:03 pm

    Many congratulations!

  35. Ron Wilson

    6 May, 2009 - 5:09 pm

    Delighted for both of you.

    Congratulations.

  36. cassiel

    6 May, 2009 - 5:11 pm

    Congratulations also.

    (Memo to self: buy copies of your books…)

  37. Edo

    6 May, 2009 - 5:13 pm

    Yay! Congratulations Craig.

  38. Jon

    6 May, 2009 - 5:19 pm

    Many congratulations, Craig. A ray of much deserved happiness!

  39. Kevin B

    6 May, 2009 - 5:30 pm

    Congratulations to you both.

  40. Pete Jordan

    6 May, 2009 - 5:45 pm

    Congratulations to you both! You deserve some happiness in your life; take care of yourselves and of each other.

  41. subrosa

    6 May, 2009 - 5:48 pm

    Ooops apologies for the slip up, I should have said sincere not sincerely. Perhaps it was excitement. You know how silly women get about marriages.

  42. Christopher Dooley

    6 May, 2009 - 6:04 pm

    Great news to hear. Congratulations Sir.

    May your happiness together be long.

  43. cassiel

    6 May, 2009 - 6:20 pm

    Oh, and I nerdishly added your marriage date to your Wikipedia biog (should you care…!).

  44. Bananas in the Falklands

    6 May, 2009 - 6:23 pm

    Congratulations from me too.

  45. Tom Kennedy

    6 May, 2009 - 6:25 pm

    Congratulations to you both. May you grow old (dis)gracefully together!

  46. tony_opmoc

    6 May, 2009 - 7:09 pm

    cassiel,

    Earlier this morning – well after midnight if his blog times are correct, Craig was responding to me on a completely unrelated post that I suspect he cares about even less than I do.

    Around 14 hours later, he announced that he got married this morning.

    I’m not suggesting such behaviour is that unusual. He may have posted to his blog from his Blackberry or whatever – whilst on his way to the honeymoon suite.

    But he also posted on March 9th – if my memory serves me right – that Nadira had entered her 8th month of pregnancy.

    As you appear to have volunteered to update his wiki, can you also update it with regards to the birthday of Craig & Nadira’s Child.

    Maybe I missed it.

    Or they got married on the day she was extremely ripe to drop.

    Maybe she is giving birth now at this very moment in time.

    Again I wish my Congratulations to Craig, Nadira and Their Child.

    Craig Murray is possibly my top Scottish hero of all time.

    I mean, I can’t even come up with an Englishman within living memory who has demonstrated such sheer courage in the face of evil.

    Who got married today.

    Tony

  47. Peter Gooderham

    6 May, 2009 - 7:15 pm

    Congratulations to you both.

  48. MJ

    6 May, 2009 - 7:26 pm

    You dark horse. Good on you. Congratulations to you both XX

  49. lwtc247

    6 May, 2009 - 7:30 pm

    Congrats Craig.

    Married on the day Herr Schmidt, ze Home sekratary christened her contribution to kweens fascist regeime.

    May the God you don’t currently believe in bless you.

  50. Phil

    6 May, 2009 - 8:07 pm

    Congratulations to you both.

  51. Leo Davidson

    6 May, 2009 - 8:41 pm

    Congrats!

  52. Jeremy Hartley

    6 May, 2009 - 9:01 pm

    Good For you. You are a lucky man!

  53. Babak Fakhamzadeh

    6 May, 2009 - 9:15 pm

    W00t!

  54. Zvimba

    6 May, 2009 - 9:18 pm

    Best wishes

  55. dreoilin

    6 May, 2009 - 9:40 pm

    Slainte! May you be poor in misfortune and rich in blessings, and may you see your children’s children.

  56. Ron

    6 May, 2009 - 9:52 pm

    Congratulations!

  57. Michael Bentley

    6 May, 2009 - 10:07 pm

    Congratulations and best wishes to both of you!

  58. Paul Martin

    6 May, 2009 - 10:38 pm

    Congratulations and may you and Nadira share many happy years.

  59. ianjuggles

    6 May, 2009 - 10:46 pm

    Congratulations!!

  60. Homer

    6 May, 2009 - 10:49 pm

    Woo Hoo!

  61. BenSix

    6 May, 2009 - 10:58 pm

    Huzzahs!

    Congratulations, Craig.

  62. Stewart

    6 May, 2009 - 11:01 pm

    Congratulations to you both…….

    Keep on Blogging

  63. tony_opmoc

    6 May, 2009 - 11:12 pm

    Craig,

    I have a confession to make.

    Julie and I got Married in Scotland.

    Not only that.

    We didn’t tell ANY of our Family and Friends.

    We just did it.

    As witnesses we had a journalist and his mate – who we dragged off the street outside.

    I know this was a complete bizzare thing to do.

    But my wife had to do the Full Monty at her Sisters Roman Catholic Wedding as Bridesmaid is it or Bridesister? complete with all The Priests and Stuff.

    We didn’t want all that shit

    And wanted to get Married in Morocco where we were completely amazed with such human kindness and generosity and total loveliness of the People We Met

    I wrote to the Moroccan Government and did my best for us to be legally married in Morocco and quoted some decent references

    But they replied

    It is impossible for you two to be legally married in Morocco

    So we thought

    Fuck It

    And Did it in

    Gretna Green

    Nearly 22 Years Ago

    We’d been together for over 5 years before – we thought – well we want to have kids – so might as well get married.

    I think I got her pregnant in Windermere on the night of the Wedding on the Way to Paros or shortly Later.

    Her Grandmother was very suspicious of the dates though couldn’t give a shit about the religion

    She was amazing and lovely.

    Tony

  64. david

    6 May, 2009 - 11:16 pm

    I had a feeling a surprise was coming, you being so quiet yesterday… Well Done, the both of ya!

  65. Davide Simonetti

    7 May, 2009 - 12:35 am

    Congratulations to you both. I wish you all the best.

  66. Clark

    7 May, 2009 - 1:11 am

    Congratulations Craig and Nadira. I hope you’ll both be very happy for a very long time.

  67. Mike Alderson

    7 May, 2009 - 1:21 am

    Congratulations and best wishes for the future

  68. sam

    7 May, 2009 - 1:25 am

    Congratulations to you both! May you live long and prosper together – and, of course, the little one to come.

  69. Apostoli

    7 May, 2009 - 1:38 am

    Congratulations Craig and Nadira,

    A long life to you both filled with love, health, happiness and satisfaction.

    Apostoli, London

  70. algernon

    7 May, 2009 - 1:41 am

    That’s great news. Congrats to you both.

  71. M.Wood

    7 May, 2009 - 1:44 am

    Congratulations, this is the only good news I have seen on-line all day.

  72. hagger

    7 May, 2009 - 1:51 am

    Lucky man, there’s hope for us all…

    xxx

  73. samarkeolog

    7 May, 2009 - 3:36 am

    Congratulations!

  74. nobody

    7 May, 2009 - 4:17 am

    Bravo and congratulations. May you both have long life, health, prosperity, and all those good things.

  75. anticant

    7 May, 2009 - 7:09 am

    Tony, I hope you mean “at Windermere” or “on Windermere”, as I should think underwater sex is pretty uncomfortable!

    A nice story, anyway.

  76. Anonymous

    7 May, 2009 - 9:22 am

    Congratulations. May you be happy and healthy together for the rest of your life’s, enjoy.

  77. Mike D

    7 May, 2009 - 10:01 am

    Congratulaions to you both

  78. abualshawareb

    7 May, 2009 - 10:42 am

    Congratulaitons to you both

  79. John A

    7 May, 2009 - 11:57 am

    Congratulations Craig! Have a carefree honeymoon and don’t worry about us – we’ll all still be here when you come back!

  80. lambent1

    7 May, 2009 - 11:58 am

    Congratulations Craig and Nadira, and many many happy years!

    A picture please?

  81. David Wearing

    7 May, 2009 - 1:37 pm

    Congratulations to you both

  82. kathz

    7 May, 2009 - 3:09 pm

    Congratulations – may you both be happy.

  83. MerkinOnParis

    7 May, 2009 - 4:06 pm

    Orrabest from The Merkin.

  84. dodoze

    7 May, 2009 - 4:32 pm

    Congratulations. There is no gift of greater value than that of happiness.

    (& I now have an excuse for last night’s bender – knew there had to be a reason).

  85. David Mills

    7 May, 2009 - 6:13 pm

    Heartfelt congratulations to you both!

  86. glenn

    8 May, 2009 - 2:50 am

    Many congratulations.

    Best advice I heard…. be merciful to

    each other.

    -Glenn

    —-

    The concept of two people living together for twenty

    five years without having a cross word suggests a

    lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

    -A.P.Herbert

  87. paul

    8 May, 2009 - 1:29 pm

    Grats, I thought you were already married :)

  88. Hugh Kerr

    8 May, 2009 - 7:10 pm

    belated congratulations Craig and Nadira you are always welcome for your honeymoon in Edinburgh! Hugh

  89. Asim

    9 May, 2009 - 2:02 am

    Congrats Craig!

  90. shootallpoliticians

    21 May, 2009 - 5:10 pm

    I thought that in CIVILISED society marriage comes BEFORE conception? But then marriage also means you will be faithful to one another, and let’s face it, you aren’t very good at that. So, now N’s got a right to stay, she can fuck off with someone younger and better looking than you – which wouldn’t be hard.

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