I HADN'T really thought about the Eurovision Song Contest yet this year.
In fact, I usually don't until about mid-April when Graham Norton starts talking about it on his radio show.
Then, I am fully on board and even dip in and out of the semi-finals which if you look hard enough are screened on one of the subsidiary digital channels.
But on Friday I happened to stumble across a televised concert-type show where the public, for the first time in ages, were getting to choose Britain's entry for this year.
Back in the heady days of my youth, this selection of our song was a huge deal.
It was on BBC 1 on a Saturday night and much deliberation was taken in the choosing - I can still remember some of the acts and I am by no means an afficionado.
Somewhere along the line though, it went by the wayside, the experts deciding and putting forward a flotilla of semi-famous people.
Englebert Humperdinck and Bonnie Tyler failed where Katrina and the Waves, albeit two decades ago now, triumphed.
And we, as a nation, are left scratching our heads as to what we need to do to catch a Eurovision break.
The answer may lie in a political sphere but I just think we need a catchy song. It is that simple.
With Justin Timberlake performing at last year's finals, the world-wide televisual appeal of this show, love it or loathe it, is only growing.
Which is probably why the public had a choice, of sorts, this year.
A panel of shiny experts pulled on their sparkliest outfits, Mel Giedroyc joined them in a sequinned jacket, and a live audience screamed heartily as six hopefuls belted out the tunes.
A high percentage had already been on talent shows, therefore were vaguely familiar.
Strictly's Bruno Tonioli, popstar Sophie Ellis Bextor and another lady who teaches famous types to sing, gave their expert views on each of them.
Bruno was there to talk about choreography - but only one of the acts had anything resembling this and I wanted to tell the singing teacher lady to speak in a normal voice. She sounded like she was doing vocal exercises every time she spoke.
Sophie looked like she had been sold an entirely different concept before agreeing to appear.
The chosen song is slow and needs a few listens to get into it. Which I am thinking might not be good in Eurovision terms.
But there were five others we could have chosen so we only have ourselves to blame come May when we barely make it up the left hand side of the results board.