Nick Deller

I was already getting over-excited about the inter-continental play-offs, and that was BEFORE I looked up Bolivia’s record away from La Paz in the decagonal.

[insert desperate attempt to weasel out on a technicality here]

I’m not saying that Cabo Verde is small, just that it didn’t make the cut to get mentioned in Conquistador.

If I had words to make a day for you, I’d, umm, thing.

I’m a big fan of that kind of one story-two retellings juxtaposition. We got something similar in 2008 with Senhora do Mar and Wolves of the Sea.

I’ve come to regard Zuice, and John T. Ford who immediately followed in the running order, as being the same story told from opposite viewpoints - one considerably more sympathetic than the other!

“this time with the spelling corrected”

I’m not saying that my old school uses AI without due care, but I maybe am saying that it uuss aii witouout durcare.

I think it’s from the same publisher as “How to Cook for Humans” if that helps.

Really enjoying the book “Making Your Own Sausages From The Ground Up”, and looking forward to reading the follow-up “What To Do When They’re Not Ground Up”

no hang on

Diplomats described the meeting as “like a group of feral raccoons fighting in a cement mixer”.

YouTube video by makikoti47 Maarit Hurmerinta: Life is a jigsaw (live 1973)

How did I not know that the song IMMEDIATELY AFTER Super-Extra-Wonder-Shop contains this joyful demonstration of free-form saxophony? youtu.be/T2JlE-z-hpA?...

1. Transcribe bookies’ odds for ESC 1987 into English notebook.
2. Put English notebook in attic for 35 years.
3. Profit!

#Eurovision

I feel like I probably ought to try having one of those “opinion” thingies that I keep hearing about, but I’m sure it’ll pass.

LOOGLE (v.) - search for information on the internet while performing lavatorial functions.

Always. In. Doubt.

Ven, ven, ven, ven, ven, veeeeennnn, ven, ven, veeeeeeeennnnnnnnnnn oh ven ven venvenvenven VEEEEENNNNNNNNNNNN *kerdonk* *polite applause*

Please welcome Mr and Mrs Stepoutoftime, and their adoptive Spanish son, Juan Stepoutoftime. #Eurovision #LateArrivalsAtTheEurovisionBall

Ladies and gentlemen! Please welcome Mr and Mrs Millioninonetwothree, and their lovely daughtah, Anita Millioninonetwothree! #LateArrivalsAtTheEurovisionBall #Eurovision

Look, Hollywood, either you want fresh original ideas or you want to send me ‘cease and desist’ letters when I pitch Four Weddings and a Predator, but you can’t have it both ways.

I’m do-re-mi-fa-s-s-serving continental choir singing hand in hand.

Football with a tennis ball - Classic. Simple. Familiar.

Cricket with a rugby ball - Fresh. Unexpected. Challenging.

“Pillows should be changed every 1-2 years, though do be aware that this advice is being offered by people who sell pillows.”

Well, yes. Seems reasonable.

They didn’t have any poison cake in, but you can have a bite of my poisson nuggets if you like.

Now don't get me wrong, I'm not in any way saying that Dugga Doo is a direct lift from Tipi-Tii, but merely voicing my suspicions that a musical DNA test might uncover an awkward family secret or two.

Sad boat/fun boat. It’s 1987 and 2008 all over again.

Austria-Iceland is definitely this year’s Junction Of Mischief.

All very much as I predicted apart from the result. 👍🏻

I’ve never heard that story, but there was a link - the song that ended up as Now And Forever in the UK final qualified from the radio-only semifinal as (the far superior) Wait For The Moment performed by Esther. She won NSF in the meantime, pulled out from the UK process and things got complicated.

Some points in time are fixed, others are in temporal flux and can still be changed, this one - now I think that this, this one, specific, moment in time - definitely isn’t fixed hahaha anyway here are the first points of the UK jury…