Our dearest friend David is staying with us this week-end. This evening we are all going to a tango-themed birthday party in Chelsea thrown by one of our neighbours for her 40th birthday!

But last night we had a mini party at home with Miranda, Lynne and Wimpy to watch BBC's "Your country needs you!" the programme that selects the act that will ( Read more... )

I haven't left home for the whole week-end (apart from going to Lynne's last night - see below ( Read more... )

We spent the last couple of nights watching the Eurovision semi-finals. They were good fun.

The first semi-final had, on the whole, the best songs; the second the best eye-candy! The Serbia line-up seemed to be out of a Eurowoof page and there were a number of other rather attractive men.

Our favourite entries are: Portugal, Estonia, Sweden, ( Read more... )

I didn't manage to watch Eurovision last night but I recorded it. Thank you to all of you for posting about Eurovision behind cuts, or not giving away that much.

When I got home last night Adrian was having a meeting with Martin and Miranda (two neighbours) to discuss the photographic competition that is going to be part of the residents' ( Read more... )

It's almost that time of the year again... I'm talking about (the) Eurovision (song Contest)!

The BBC website is up and running. You can watch all the entries, and each country is linked to the BBC News country profile, Wikipedia page, CIA  Wold Factbook and essential phrases.

Culture all around!

There's also a EuroHistory section where you can see ( Read more... )

The party was a hoot! 
It kicked off with Cosmopolitans in the kitchen before we all crammed (9 of us) into the sitting room to watch the show.
We missed most of Terry Wogan's sarcastic commentary and bit of songs too because of all the laughter! 
3 of our neighbours were Eurovision virgins: their lives will never be the same.


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We had fun watching the first Eurovision semi-final this evening! 
There were not that many songs we liked but the outfits... wow! 
Certainly some good ideas for future Gay Prides, and some weird entries: poultry from Ireland (booed by the audience), Helena Bonham-Carter in a Tim Burton's wacky fairytale for Bosnia-Herzegovina, Amelie wearing a ( Read more... )

On Saturday we had a mini Eurovision party: us two plus Michael and William.
We didn't cook anything but stuffed ourselves with lovely M&S party food. And we had 3 bottles of bubbly, 2 bottles of sangria and one of white wine! Not bad, eh?
William got here at around 10 pm in time for the voting (he had spent the day in Paris with friends! Lucky fella ( Read more... )

We have just watched the semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest.
It was a grand festival of camp!! (all of a sudden, the UK entry doesn't look so camp any more)

It was great fun.
- The Finnish presenter looked like Ugly Betty's Wilhelmina Slater (Vanessa Williams)
- There's probably a shortage of feathers all over Europe, especially thanks to the ( Read more... )

Eurovision act angers Ukrainians