Eurovision 2018

In Portugal Eurovision is Serious Business, so this year's Eurovision Singing Competition was not as much fun as the last few have been. Also the defeat of Perennial Eurovision Baddys Russia in the semi-finals meant that we had nobody to boo.

There were still a lot of great and fabulous songs for us to watch though!

The Czech Republic's song was the first properly wacky entry to make it into the final this year, which is always good as so many of them don't make it that far.

For Norway their winner from 2009, Alexander Rybak, returned to have another go and I liked his song. I also liked the Austrian entry from Cesár Sampson who is a handsome manny, and I was clearly not the only one to think so because he did well and came third.

My favourite song was the one from Moldova, because it was the most fun with the singing mannys acting like they were in a sex farce play. Moldova are getting to be like Sweden - they really know how to do Eurovision.

I was not too keen on Israel's song, but I did like their decision to have cats as backing dancers.

Even without having the cats singing, Israel still managed to win!

Like last year there was a stage invasion, which is becoming something of a Eurovision tradition. It occurred during the United Kingdom's song, which was being performed by a young, pink-haired Servalan. Graham Norton kept going on and on about it in his commentary, but it was actually over so quickly that it wasn't even clear to us watching that what had happened was not supposed to happen.

I wonder whose turn it will be to get invaded next year?