Franko, Poirot and Kryton – the story so far

Well since yesterday The Celestial Toymaker has had to withdraw from the panel due to doctor's advice. In fact two doctor's advice, the ones...

Catching up on the morning by Monty

I’m stealing a few moments at work to muse on the morning. On the whole it looks a bit slicker than yesterday and the...

Anticipation of Russia

Things have suddenly gone a little slack here.  Someone has sent our esteemed Mr Phil some pictures of the food available in the press...

Denmark First rehearsal

I am trying to be all kinds of negative on this song - It's bland, boring, monotonic.... and yet, it ends up being typically...

Friends in high places

Is it me, or do the band give off the air of "too cool for this contest" when performing? - I mean it could...

*yawn* Night all (contains some mention of Latvia, Denmark and Ireland)

So it seems it's all been a bit earnest since we went out in Dorf for sausage and mash and salmon and hearty goulash...

The whole effect is just a bit wrong, really

I'm sat here, looking at a screen while 2 independent performances go on. On the one hand, Chanee is trying her damnedest to get...

A Moment like Give Me Your Love with Your Heartbeat

We could be in Sweden right now, but we are actually in Denmark who have decided to adopt the very worst style of Swedish...

What I’ve heard about Denmark …

Apparently the performance is exactly as described previously with the addition of some fireworks. This would worry me greatly. The song itself, as we...

Eurovision 2009 – A view from afar

Now, to my Jaded eye (do you see what I did there?), none of these looked half bad - until the last 30 seconds...