Last Minute Preparations ……

Well, what can we say, the Eurovision Semi Finals on Tuesday and Thursday have been absolutely and unequivocally glorious…….

https://eurovision.tv/the-sound-of-beauty

……..we’ve all been in seventh heaven and walking on sunshine and water all week!  What are we like?

There were a few shocks with who did and didn’t get through to the Grand Final,  we personally loved Latvia with Eat Your Salad (for obvious reasons) but sadly, in our opinion, were beaten by some quite pedestrian type songs!

However, that being said, we now know all the runners and riders for our televisual night of the  year, our personal favourite is Norway with Give That Wolf A Banana and of course our own entrant Sam Ryder with Spaceman, but we will be more than happy if/when Ukraine win.

One observation of the hosts, as per usual everything was very exaggerated, over acted and shouty, but watch out for the lady host, Laura Pausini, who is very (even overly) touchy feely with her male co-hosts …… and we think her hair is a wig!

This morning, we are making our final preparations for tomorrow evening. Darrell is taking a night off from the cooking, as he says he wouldn’t be able to concentrate on even the simplest of fricassees or bateaux mouches anyway.

So, we are currently debating whether to have either a Pappa John’s or a Dominoes, to be delivered on the cusp of the contest starting, because, let’s face it, there is no way any of us will be leaving the sofa to answer the door once we’ve heard the iconic Eurovision fanfare!

As for drinks, Darrell found a bottle of Christmas Asti Spumante, forgotten and forlorn, at the back of the crisp cupboard when he was having a cheeky spring clean the other day, which was really a quite fortuitous bonus.

He also treated us to a couple of bottles of slightly alcoholic Dandelion and Burdock from Home Bargains to sup, because again, tomorrow night isn’t a night to be distracted by the mixing of cocktails.

As for nibbles, that’s Nigel’s department  ……… let’s just say we will not going to be without and all tastes and comestible peccadillos have been catered for!  Sorry, if we’ve made you hungry again Mr D in Eurovision devoid Mexico!

We don’t usually post at the weekend, but tomorrow we are going to make an expectation, with a list of what to look out for, for our Eurovision Bingo Malteser game …….