Flying the Flag

It’s a forgone conclusion that we’ve not going to win of course, and the voting gets more and more ridiculous every year, but I did feel sorry for Scooch. But then, the Eastern Europeans, and many other countries, don’t see Eurovision as a joke like we do, and I think Flying the Flag was a bit too knowing for them. We were very glad had Malteasers though, when Malta gave us douze points!

There is a sort of perverse pleasure in the fact that, if we can’t win, no one in the last 3 years has got more points or come higher than James did – and he had the disadvantage of that blue suit. We joked that you should really have a map of Europe spread out during the voting to see who shares boarders to predict the points.

It’s still a great night. We’d arrived at Shona’s in good time, so by the time it began we had a pretty impressive buffet laid out, which featured delicacies from Greece, Turkey, Denmark, Spain, France, Germany, Sweden, Russia, Switzerland and probably others.

We had the official score cards, with our 'special' category of ‘Eurovisioness’, that certain something that means a song can only be from Eurovision. Some songs were liked; Hungary, (best song, but it scored low on ‘Eurovisioness’) Greece, Latvia, and Serbia, others (Ukraine) scored well, as they ticked all the boxes, some were forgettable; (Armenia) and some just awful; Bulgaria, Ireland (we assumed they didn’t want to win, it was so bad) and Slovenia. There was a lot of leather and corsets this year.

Well, it’s off to Belgrade next year. I was fairly happy with the winner – certainly out of the top 6 it was the only one I was happy to see win. I do think they’re going to have to change the voting one day though.