Ricky

Went to South Carolina last month as my Dad lived and passed away there. One of the best parts was meeting his five cats.

We thought the same in our house, it does last though!

Woke up on Monday morning and my phone had turned into a brick while I was sleeping and life is so inconvenient when everything you need is on one device.

That was a good 9 darter.

It doesn't matter how good Gerwyn Price is at darts, he will always serve All Bar One bouncer.

I've had a bad one since Sunday. Felt fine until I got in from a walk and now I've not felt this bunged up in years.

Not the most popular opinion I know but I keep trying and just can't seem to like Bara Bada Bastu. I love a good novelty televote magnet but I just don't really get it.

Next door's smoke alarm goes off at least twice a week and the people in there just don't seem to care about turning it off. It's been going off for half an hour now, there's someone in and no attempt to switch it off....

Yeah Saturday will be my day hanging around the main stages this year. It doesn't really matter if the acts on the main poster are shit though because I usually just float about all the smaller stages.

The BBC was always going to complain about "Kant". The contest rules mean they can't cut the feed and the potential for Ofcom would come down like a ton of bricks was too great to ignore.

It's just the decision came so close to the submission deadline.

Forget how much I adore Manchester whenever I visit.

Yeah behind me on the pic where the Carlsberg building used to be is now part of a lovely park with trees. Still fenced off for now but excited for it opening.

Went for a spring like walk into Leeds today and all the new developments springing up in the last 6 months to a year feels very Manchester.

Darren Adam. He has a website, he lived in Edinburgh before moving to Iceland

Just looked up who he was and when I used to fall asleep to LBC a few years ago (don't ask why) he was the 1 - 4am presenter. Thought the voice sounded weirdly similar.

The extremely well dressed crowd sounding like they're about to storm the stage aha.

Also, what's with the David Walliams ad? Probably the weirdest moment of the night.

Week 2 proper of getting my housemates to watch national finals and #MESC is testing my patience. Get on with it.

I agree, but there was 10% of me that had a love hate relationship with the chaos she brings.

To be fair, my job role is changing so I'm going to be in training anyway and I'm actually getting to work in an office after years of remote work so it is a change.

My work contract is changing on Monday (agency staff for the civil service to becoming a direct employee in the civil service) and I'm having a bit too much wine as if it's a leaving do tonight.

Also it's funny that I did A Level German and I'm topping it up with Duolingo and it meant I could near enough understand what was being said in #Eurosong Belgium but I understood zero of #BenidormFestFinal except when the hosts spoke English to a panel member 😂

Good choice from Spain. #BenidormFestFinal

Yeah it's the first song I've heard which I've properly enjoyed. Haven't watched NFs for a good few years but I managed to get my housemates into Eurovision enough that they don't mind watching bits of them now.

Oh no it's Mr Brightside.

It's my Mum's partner's birthday and I live in the same town by the way, not just there randomly.

Sat in the same room where that town hall with Rishi Sunak happened that got GB News fined £100k.

LS4 3/10 starting to settle now. #uksnow

Actually scratch that, quite a few thirty somethings on the Orange app that are clearly here. Definitely a younger skewing crowd though.

Last year was worse though, think the average age at the place my housemates and I went was early 20s, this place is more mid 20s.