Yes I admit it I did and like you I rated France if not to win to do better than they did, they were interesting to watch and quirky. This year I thought the presentation of the contest was very slick which added polish to most of the performers so I had difficulty in choosing tonight. For the first time in ages my elderly mother sat through the whole of the competition and enjoyed the whole thing. In recent years she would have given up and headed to bed before the voting reached halfway but it was a good atmosphere too which helped to make it enjoyable.

Austria deserved the win but there were so many this time it could have been any one of them. Netherlands, Germany, Finland, Italy, Spain. I was a little bit suspicious of Italy and I thought I could recognise a few bars from a particular rock song of the past (Hanging on a Rope?). Still watchable though.