Eurovision evening

My haircut went well and I enquired about having my hair dip-dyed next time. Fiona's initial reaction was to say "Are you having a mid life crisis?" but she has agreed to dip dye the ends of my hair gold in June. She ruled out pink or blue because they are not age appropriate! After my hair cut I decided to walk towards home and see how far I got. I figured that if I ran out of steam I would get on a bus or a train. I set off from Queen Street station and walked all the way home in 1 hour and 50 minutes - about 9 and a half km. I'm not sure that I went the quickest way because I just followed one of the routes that I drive - away along Duke Street, down past Parkhead and through Dalmarnock. I really enjoyed it and would have enjoyed it even more if it hadn't been so very rainy! By the time I got home I was wet through despite wearing a waterproof and my hair was trashed! However I did feel very virtuous.
The main business of the day was of course our Eurovision party evening. This year James has managed to avoid it by going hill-walking for the weekend, and David has boycotted it because Albania got into the top 5 last year, although he did appear downstairs for the results.
Undeterred the party went ahead and we had great fun discussing the entries. Cat and I also dressed up as Agnetha and Frieda from Abba. Jack cat kept staring at both of us - he didn't like us looking so different! I love Eurovision and this year was full of great Eurovision moments. Finland sang a jolly song "Marry Me" which culminated in a ground-breaking Eurovision lesbian kiss. I loved the wee doctor singer from Malta - his song was catchy and I didn't know whether I should run away with him or adopt him. Malta was my own favourite. Cesar of Romania was totally amazing with his high vibrato voice and and homo erotic male dancers. Graham Norton commented amusingly "Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should." Bonnie Tyler did Britain proud with a good song and performance. Denmark, Belarus, and Ukraine were very good and I liked Greece because it was like a traditional Greek song on speed! I thought that the standard was quite high.
After much discussion we jointly chose 1. Denmark 2. Belarus 3. Sweden as our top three and waited excitedly for the results. Heather and I had been texting each other during the contest and their top three were 1. Russia 2. Denmark 3. Greece and they also liked Norway and Belgium. All of these got on well.
It was a relief that Bonnie Tyler got a respectable if unspectacular vingt-trois points. Denmark were the deserving winners and my Malta boy did quite well and was about half way up the board. It has been a very enjoyable evening.