As you can imagine, Norway went collectively insane last night. Plus today we celebrate our National Day so we're all a bit dizzy here...

The ESC is BIG here, you see. We watched it at a neighbours house, she knows the Norwegian contestant in a roundabout way and plays the violin herself, so she crammed all the neighbours into her very small livingroom to watch "Alex win". But good lord, some of the stage shows... Germany had an overstyled, overgelled dude with his shirt open ogling Dita Von Teese bending over a car... Ukraine had a very peppy girl with flowing curls and a short red dress - and 3 absurdly bronzed, hunky dancers dressed like gladiators with a show that wouldn't have out of place in a strip joint. There were a lot of kids watching this and I was sort of cringing on their behalf

eta: but half the fun of watching the ESC is cringing, and commenting all the weird things they wear and get up to.