Soooo! Welcome to the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 not-entirely-live blog. I'll take it that all my gentle readers are familiar with the delightful, over-the-top insanity that's the ESC, but just in case anyone isn't, last year's hosts kindly provided a performance to explain how to produce the perfect winner song, which explains... well, not ( Read more... )

Eruvision Song Contest.

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*facepalms*
Screw this, I'm going to bed.

*creaky old Maia voice* So this is what they call the Ainulindalë these days ---

* After our warm and dry April, we've spent the last week firmly in the grip of the Ice Saints. (My neighbour says that it can't be the Ice Saints because this year, everything is four weeks ahead of its time, but the cold spell ended on May 15th - the day of St. Sophia, who is counted as the "final" Ice Saint - so I think it was the Ice Saints ( Read more... )

Because time-honoured traditions have to be, um, honoured... here be Lyra's annual Eurovision liveblog. All in one post for the sake of your f-lists. Slight time-lag because we're watching it on timeshift. OK! All set?
Here we go! (TBC as proceedings... proceed. I need a thesaurus?)

Preliminaries

Who I hope will win: Iceland. I dunno, that song ( Read more... )

Hurray! It's Eurovision time again! (Yes, a bit late, because the day before yesterday we were BBQing with my parents and afterwards it was too late to watch the ESC and then on Sunday I only typed up half and yesterday the weather was too nice and -- anyway, belated. So I shall watch it now, bit by bit, as if it only got broadcast now. Pretend ( Read more... )

a.k.a. still not the summary of last week ( Read more... )