Cryptic

There is a YouTube channel (and other things too, I am sure) called Cracking The Cryptic. On it, two chaps take you through different types of puzzles and show you how to solve them.

To me, “cryptic” means crosswords, and they do some of those, but increasingly rarely. Generally they go for hard ones, and even with the explanations I find them difficult to follow with words that I have never heard of. But they are interesting.

They also do a number of sudoku-type pencil puzzles. Here’s one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUs0h3YRhaw

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Latex opera

If you are a fan of latex clothing and opera, you may enjoy this, and similar videos:

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ESC II

The main event of Saturday evening was the Eurovision Song Contest, a two hour ‘live’ show replacing the normal epic.

That it had been put together in just a few weeks, after nearly a year of preparation for something very different was impressive. The EBU (European Broadcasting Union) has huge resources available, but even so.

I saw the UK/BBC version introduced by Graham Norton. I know it was on in other countries.

The main part consisted of the 41 songs. Each had a short introduction, a video clip of the tune and a few words from the performers.

In with it all were some favourites, Johnny Logan and Mans Zelmerlöw made an appearance, previous winner Netta was funny and nice and then sang a song that was a bit calmer than her winning song:

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