Recent content by allezfred

Rehearsals start tomorrow in Malmö. Meanwhile Olly Alexander has appeared on the Kelly Clarkson Show. Perhaps he is going after the Rest of the World vote. https://youtu.be/afycDPbSQxE?si=hVjOf0NwjMQnxxgP

This makes a mockery of anti-doping in sport.

The World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships are taking place today in Turkey with the spots on the line for the new Mixed Relay marathon event. Really unusual format in that teams only have two athletes with each athletes doing alternate 10km legs.

He’s a Swedish world champion and world record holder in athletics. Of course he’s well known in Sweden. :lol:

Am going to Paris for the middle weekend of the Games and am currently playing a game of chicken with the hotel booking websites to wait and see how low their prices will go.

Scoop was amazing.

How did I know it would be a Boeing before I opened the thread? :shuffle:

Watched “Scoop” on Netflix over the weekend about the BBC Newsnight interview with Prince Andrew and :yikes: do the British Royal Family come out of it looking clueless….

Just saw footage of the New Jersey earthquake and I thought it was going to be a bigger tremor based on the news coverage. When I lived in Japan, I would have barely registered something of that size. :shuffle:

Also crazy to think now that none of the British jury members gave a single vote to ABBA in 1974. https://youtu.be/ODOen7MjkA8?si=IGqnz1XmuOSmo5-3

50 years ago today since ABBA won Eurovision in Brighton. https://eurovision.tv/story/waterloo-50-revisiting-abbas-charge-eurovision-victory-1974 BBC4 will be showing the 1974 contest in full tomorrow evening.

The running order for the semis have been revealed: Semi 1 - https://youtu.be/J_DRe_uXYEk?si=V8EkAXc6stUoPT4b Semi 2 - https://youtu.be/KEcZZAKEs5c?si=CAxw79ZZUhk1fVMK Automatic qualifiers Germany, Sweden and UK will perform in full during Semi 1 and France, Italy and Spain in Semi 2.

Add Sweden and Ukraine to the ones that really stood out. Unusually for me am drawn more to the male vocalists this year..

Am listening to the songs now as they have all been released. Croatia (Baby Lasagna :lol: ), Belgium and France are the ones standing out so far. Am only two-thirds of the way through so far. I think it is going to be a hard to call year until the rehearsals.

Of course there is, but out of courtesy to my employer and my colleagues who will be filling in for me I would (and have in the past) let them know the nature of my illness and when I expect to be back at work.