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Eurovision, Mother's Day, and a near quilt top finish

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One row from the quilt; I LOVE this elephant print! A year ago during our trip to the UK, we watched for the first time the Eurovision Song Contest. We lived in Britain for nearly eleven years and not once during our stay did we indulge, but it just seemed like the right thing twelve months ago. Forward to this past weekend and we deeply enjoyed the first two hours of the final, although we didn't bother with the voting part of the show. I wrote down tunes I appreciated, will incorporate them into my music player. We laughed that at the time of living there we simply didn't appreciate what has been broadcast for several decades. But then, I still don't watch cricket or European football. ("Cha Cha Cha" was my fave production; WOW! Finland knows how to showcase a song, hehehe.) Mother's Day was marvelous; we went to breakfast early, then headed to the beach for high tide. It was my hubby and me, our kids having visited a few weeks back. After the beach, I hung ...