I got mentioned in The Times. I look like some kind of Eurovision nut…
One fan from Leamington Spa is so keen that he sent his notes from the semi-final. “Much gurning” was his view of the Russian entry. Of the Moldovan entry he noted, “under-used trumpet”.
They’re talking about this Flickr image.
Debbie keeps threatening to list the myths about Japan that are not true (trains are always on time, it’s punishingly expensive, you can only get scary Japanese food, etc.). Although I’ve promised to stop thinking about Eurovision for the year, I have to get these off my chest.
1. Political voting
As Ukraine gave Russia 12 […]
The answer to the question in the title is — for quite a long time to come. But not necessarily forever.
These thoughts were triggered by a cluster of recent high profile blog posts.
First off, Steven Poole, Guardian columnist and author of ‘Trigger Happy’, a book about video games, wrote about giving away content. I […]
It’s a little known fact (although people love to snort about how Israel isn’t in Europe) that the Eurovision Song Contest is not a contest for European countries, but for members of the European Broadcasting Union, which itself admits broadcasters from the Middle East and Northern Africa.
Here are the European countries which have broadcasters […]
Look at me, blogging.
Eurovision is next week, and we needed some foodstuffs from some of the trickier countries, so we took a daytrip to London by train.
It was FA Cup final day, and our train stopped at Wembley, but it was a little early, and few Cardiff or Portsmouth fans were on our train […]
I was in Solihull yesterday, having a followup checkup for my laser eye surgery. (You may think the laser eye surgery would be a more interesting story — but it’s really not. I had my eyes lasered, it hurt a bit that night, then it didn’t hurt and I can see without glasses. End […]