So the walking holiday went fine, our internet works, and we are now addicted to watching crappy American infomercials on the satellite shopping channels. Life is good!
Our friend Sarah came up to stay with us over the weekend, the main reason to listen to Terry 'BBC God' Wogan yammer on through the "Eurovision Song Contest" and of course, as a bit of a social as we hadn’t seen her since "Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith" came out! (a big 'Hello Sarah!' when she reads this). Yep, sad I know, but we are all fans of this TV institution. The show is great to watch with a few glasses of wine! Some of the performances are quite, how shall we say, 'out there' on planet crap. :)
Anyhoo, we loved our entry: "Flying the Flag" by Scooch. Top campy pop… great fun, and featuring wonderful flight attendant costumes!! Shame no one else in Europe thought so as the voting put us second from last (just above Ireland). It seems the political voting has been getting worse over the last few yeas as it has now become the "Eastern European Song Contest love-in". Still, there ya go….the show was fun all the same. Why that les-bo Serb won with that dirge I have no idea. Our non-UK favourites were Ukraine (a Christopher Biggins look-a-like with a star on his head), a cross-dresser from Denmark, and the Belgian entry sung by what looked like the love child of Jay Kay (the lead singer from Jamiroquai) and Lenny Kravitz. Unfortunately, Belgian disco boy got kicked out in the semis. Shame, that track was proper bo! Carla also liked the French song - I admit, that was a fun performance. Especially when they ran around the stage. Sarah loved the Belarus song that had a heavy 007 influence. Have a look at these bizarre acts here!
Oh, I became 35 years old on Sunday, so we had choccy cake and (at least I had) the remains of the previous night's plonk!
More silliness tomorrow.
