[Romantic Old Bird]

I missed a few evening programmes, never saw any live feed for more than a few minutes..

All a far cry from when we sat up half the night to see if H&P would get it on, AND that year I went to work an hour earlier so I could see the live feed from 4pm each afternoon when I got home!

Didn't like the mix this year. There were a few good characters, most of which left far too early. There were some obnoxious characters who all stayed too long (including M&S) and there were the uninspiring who........won!

All this goes to show in my opinion is that when you try too hard to get outrageous characters it becomes a freak show for a couple of weeks. Then their front slips and you realise they are just fairly ordinary folks hiding behind a mask.

Much better to put in fairly ordinary folks and watch them metamorph into those who become slightly deranged, suffer delusions of grandeur or a persecution complex, want to achieve world domination, become wanton sirens, want their mummies, want their dummies, etc!