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Eurovision episode seven: Sweden, Georgia, Turkey, Estonia, Slovakia, Norway,...

Our inexorable journey into night brings us to the end of the second semi-final, with a shedload of Balkans, and the favourite. 29) Sweden: Loreen performing Euphoria Goodness, a lot of the acts are...

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Episode Nine: last of the big six, and reflections on the second semi-final

“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of Eurovision hopes and dreams.”  That’s what Julius Robert Oppenheimer might have said if he had my record on predicting who might get through to the Eurovision...

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Episode ten: Eurovision Grand Final Round up (and thanks to AngloInfo for...

Well, what a weekend and a half that was. At nix towers we celebrated Eurovision the only way we know how, by rounding up whatever friends we could, filling them with food and drink, and bellowing...

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Thing Five: Five things I wish visitors to London knew

Today London starts to officially welcome our Olympian visitors. So the time is right to broach a knotty subject. Tourists. The minute ANY of us venture too far from our own front door, we ALL become...

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Enjoy the finest day to be alive in London: See the Torch, visit South Africa...

“Are you absolutely sure the best way to do this isn’t watching it at home on a 46″ screen?” said spouse, as we evaluated our options to watching the opening ceremony on the train into London. “Yes I...

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Thing 552: Stage your own Olympic Torch relay before the Paralympics

I don’t know about you, but I for one am deeply tired of all this muttering that the Olympics have finished. No, no, no. This is the intermission before the main event. The Paralympics are coming. A...

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Thing 698: See Fireworks

Last week London started going crazy for James Bond with the release of “Skyfall”, and so has my blog.You have to hand it to Hammersmith and Fulham Borough Council. Their ability to shamelessly cash in...

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Thing 907: Celebrate the Tube’s 150th Birthday

Every once in a while I have an adventure so peculiar, I feel compelled to talk to you about it. Today marks the 150th anniversary of the Tube, and as you may know, the London Underground and London...

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Thing 502: pay homage to BBC TV Centre

On Friday they finally switched the lights off the glorious BBC TV centre for good. This made me sad – I couldn’t even bear to watch the BBC’s celebrations on the telly. It did however put me in mind...

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Thing 667: Do something truly Pointless

My last post was a slightly maudlin affair, as I mourned the passing of the BBC Television Centre. I still mourn the loss of BBC TV Centre, but I have got over it, because TV continues to be filmed in...

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