It's always bizarre when you see people from your past on TV, and in this case even more so as last Thursday the BBC broadcast a documentary about Denise Welch (who plays a fake teacher on Waterloo road) acting as a teacher at my old Secondary School for a week. It was called 'Blackfyne Comprehensive' back then but now goes under the name 'Consett Community Sports College'. The documentary itself was servicable hitting all the notes that it should but what was more interesting for me was how many of my old teachers were still there and the way the kids were. However we only saw the English department and Headmistress (My headmaster has since moved on) so were limited although I'm sure there is plenty of them still there since I left 11 years ago. The most Notable was Sarah Lumsdon who still after so many years has still got an X-files fixation. Her house was great, with walls filled with David Duchovny photo's (some of them framed). She was always the eccentric character so I'm glad she is willing to share that with others and not give a damn.

It's got me wondering how all the other teachers are doing now, like Mr Thomas (6'4" Geography teacher, enjoyed drawing stick men falling off cliffs) and the science teacher (forget his name) that was rumoured to drink his own concoctions from the lab. Does anybody else remember their old teachers and their odd eccentricities?

Unlike last year when I watched it by my self (boring - recorded it cos I was out on the night it was on) this year was fun. Eurovision has always been one of those shows (like the X factor) that is a group watching activity, that way you get to make your own comments and have a bit of a laugh, even drinking games depending on who your with. This year I watched it with My Dad and two brothers and I have to admit I was impressed by quite a bit of the entries. Nothing truly bad popped up till the 7th song with a guy singing a rubbish song while jumping off a platform that also incoporated a treadmill. That said platform also at the end turned into a giant stapler (well not quite but that's what I thought it loked like anyway). I have to say that I always go for the songs that have a sense of fun to them. Norway who won had that (even though I wsn't amazingly keen on the thing) but also I enjoyed the Ukraine for the madness of a High energy pop song that had an introduction that sounded like it was ripped from Flight of the Conchords, and Turkey who's song was Eurovision with a catchy phrase 'Heart goes Dim tek tek' or something.

Countries that should have got nil points included for me Malta (awful strained ballad), Russia (atrocious rich girl sings while her picture ages on the screen behind her) and Spain (what were they thinking).

The star of the show though was the interval act which had people swimming around on top of perspex sheets that were lowered to within reaching height of the audience. Even the Green Room got a greenlit version. Truly fantastic to watch it reminded me of some of the bizarre things like were at the Opening ceremony for the China Olympics last year. This was the most proffesionally done Eurovision I've ever seen and as for Jade Ewen and the UK entry, not really my cup of tea, but I am glad that we came in the top 5 because all the whingers wouldn't have stopped otherwise.

Central heating is now fixed. Over the past 2 weeks we have had about 5 different British Gas men out. First one fixed the problem of it being completely bust but created another problem - on timer the central heating went off after 1 and a half hours. Turns out that it wasn't the thermostat which the second guy replaced, turns out it wasn't a part in the boiler which the 4th Guy fixed but a problem with a part that the 1st guy had installed (a sort of switch which stop heating hot water and turns to only Central heating) for the airing cupboard water tank. Ooops only took 5 people to cotton on. Still at least it's now fixed and I don't have to wait around in the house for Gas men to turn up any more.