Sorry!
I apologise for not being able to bring you my review of the 2007 Junior contest, nor the British "Making Your Mind Up" programmes as quickly as I would have liked.
For long, boring, complicated reasons there have been problems with updating my site. Because I perform my updates from my local library (squeezing all my net needs into half an hour a week), this has greatly complicated things. I cannot simply say "here computer, ftp this lot to the server...". Anyway, you won't want to know all the geeky rubbish. I'm sorry. The documents were written as usual, just they couldn't make it to the outside world according to plan. Tant pis, as the French say. |
Ever since I can remember, I have been a fan of Eurovision. I've given up defending this against those who aren't enlightened enough to even consider it for its comic value, so I'm not going to explain why I like it. I just do, that's all that matters to me.
Something very important to remember as you read my commentaries - they are written 'live' as the contest progresses (or in the case of the Junior, during my first watching of the recording, after swearing my friend to say nothing until after I'd seen it!).
When I pick songs I like and put some songs down, this is not do with foreknowledge or written after the event. Everything you read here is as live as the contest itself (give or take some indented comments, and a few minor corrections - email me if you spot anything I've screwed up!).
You may notice assistance provided by Ewen and Moray. I am grateful to both, and I welcome your thoughts on the contest. So why not write to me?
A small plea...
 For the Eurovision song contest 2006, a website was set up:www.eurovisionathens.net
This website contained all sorts of "backstage" photos such as the various rehearsals. It is where I got the original of the picture on the right (the one you see here has been edited).
Because of my restricted internet access, I was only able to download a few of the pictures from a friend's dial-up account, and this website appears to have finished. If you should happen to have downloaded all of those pictures, would you be willing to zip them up (or tarball them) and make arrangements to send them to me, please, as I would like to have an idea of the 'behind-the-scenes' stuff that goes on. My email is somewhat limited in its capacity and handling of attachments, so the best method could be one of those file transfer sites... unless you have your own website in which case hiding it on your website (i.e. /forrick.tar.gz) may be the simplest for you? Please do get in touch - heyrick at merseymail dot com. Please also get in touch if a similar thing happened for this year's contest. Thank you very much.
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Or, for the young'uns, go to:
In either case, the website appears to be a horrible mess of JavaScript. Let's hope somebody less obsessed with scripting is contracted for the Eurovision 2006 website. Hell, I will help do it, if somebody arranges transport for me!