I let you know now, this cat goes into hiding away from any TV or radio and particularly away from She Who Must Be Obeyed Editor and her trusty butler.
All they appear to bang on about for the previous three weeks is the Eurovision Song Contest. I even heard them discussing THEIR outfits for the large occasion and they’re solely watching it on TV! I’ll want my sun shades on for the Spandex on present.
And there was a time when to keep away from the Eurovision Song Contest, you simply made different preparations for Saturday evening.
Now it’s important to keep away from Tuesdays and Wednesdays because it has morphed into the European Championships with semi-finals. The BBC has been banging on about it for weeks now, basking within the glow of being awarded host broadcaster standing with this week’s breakfast TV taken over by this tawdry spectacle.
Let’s get all the way down to fundamentals, it masquerades as a ‘song contest’ but it surely isn’t. The kind of tune they sing in Armenia is completely completely different and incomparable with a tune from the UK or France.
On the topic of Armenia, at the very least we’re spared the battle with their neighbour, barely on talking phrases, Azerbaijan, who have been denied a closing place, and whose earlier acts have been a barely hid assault on the opposite, and the place politics got here to the forefront.
But, hey, the organisers gained’t permit President Zelensky to talk as a result of it could make it ‘political’! Too late for that, I concern.
It began as an excuse for all of the nations related by the Eurovision community to return collectively to show they may, nicely, come collectively, that the expertise labored they usually might beam into Warsaw to listen to the crackly sound of the Polish judges give their dziesięć punktów or Paris and their nil level pour les Beefsteaks.
And talking of awarding factors, it has nothing to do with how good the tune is, it’s all about rewarding your neighbours within the full expectation they may reward you again. It’s political, not musical.
But it has expanded past any considered European. Australia will not be, by no means has been or ever might be in Europe. For that matter neither is Israel or Cyprus however at the very least they’re unlikely to have a tune that bangs on about kangaroos, digeridoos, swagmen and billabongs sung by a poor model of Crocodile Dundee sporting a felt hat with corks hanging from it.
Speaking of outfits, would Making Your Mind up have ever gained in 1981 if Cheryl Baker and Jay Aston hadn’t whipped their skirts off?
And talking of winners, no disrespect to Ukraine, however would they’ve gained if Putin hadn’t had his ‘special military operation’? Was their tune THAT good?
This yr, the UK is internet hosting in Liverpool and we’re represented by a singer who has acknowledged, prior to now, she hates this nation and is planning to use for a German passport. Presumably she is singing for her profession.
Well, I don’t know if I’ll love or hate your efficiency, Ms Muller, as a result of this cat is not going to be watching.
I’ll as an alternative sneak She Who Must Be Obeyed Editor’s telephone and textual content a big donation to the Cats Protection League each time she fill her glass with Prosecco whereas I gorge on my stash of Dreamies and Edgar Alan Poe spins quietly in his grave.
About Cumbria Cat
Born in Cumberland and, now, again residing in Cumberland, having spent many of the previous 50 years in some place known as Cumbria, this cat has used up all 9 lives in addition to just a few others.
Always glad to twist up on a pleasant lap, the desire is for an area lap and never a lap that desires to descend on the county to vary it into one thing it isn’t. After all, you would possibly suppose Cumbria/Cumberland/Westmorland is a land solid by nature – the glaciers, the rivers, breaking down the volcanic rocks or the sedimentary layers – however, in actuality, the Cumbria we all know at this time was solid by generations of native folks, farmers, miners, quarriers, and foresters.
This cat is an area moggy, not a Burmese, Ocicat or Persian, and though I’ve been across the block just a few occasions, at any time when I leap, I find yourself on my toes again in my home county. I’m passionate in regards to the space, its folks, previous, current and future, and those that come to admire what we maintain expensive, be it lakes and mountains, wild sea shores, vibrant communities or the historical past as wealthy and numerous as anyplace on the earth.
