Blog ≫ 2023 ≫ A Liverpool medley without a Beatles song..?
Crazy talk! We all stayed in and watched Eurovision last night, with the added excitement of a sweepstake. We started to divide the countries up while we were in Wagamama yesterday lunchtime using a "spin the wheel" app that T1 had set up. My first country was Ukraine, and everyone groaned that the competition was over and they would surely win again. Then my second country was UK, and the whole draw was restarted as it was now definitely considered too one sided. I bet they wish they'd stuck with that as it went. Ukraine and UK went to the two boys, as if shared evenly there would be two countries left over anyway. In the end T2 won with Sweden, I came second with Finland, and T1 came third with Israel. So I get my sweepstake entry money back.
I was looking forward to the half time entertainment, previous Eurovision entrants all doing songs from the host city of Liverpool (UK hosting on behalf of war torn Ukraine of course). But they did not include a Beatles song, what is going on? There was John Lennon's Imagine, and an Atomic Kitten and Sonya doing her own song from a Eurovision past, but no Beatles.
Quiet-ish day today. We're not going to pump class, but T2 is being collected to go to a party over lunchtime. T1 does not have football today but we do need to do some more shopping and prep for this week. T2 has world war two theme school trip tomorrow, they're going on a steam train at Tenterden and he needs an evacuee outfit. Then later in the week he has "green tag day" and we have to provide some gardening supplies.
Good luck to Jules who is running the Copenhagen marathon about now1, and to George who is buying a flat! I've seen it on Rightmove and it looks good.
In gig history the dreadful King Adora twenty years ago today, and the less dreadful Longpigs today in 1996 in Reading. Not at Reading, just in Reading..
- Just heard from him, he had to pull up just over half way round, heart rate going crazy and not safe to carry on. He'll be back and doing another one soon.