Good morning all. I have been without internet for about a week because I was on holiday in Hungary so I couldn't vote. We went home yesterday but only got across the border to Slovenia because of car trouble. Hope the car can be fixed here. Had to book an appartement here in Radenci for the night. The positive in this is that I have a very good internet connection here and did vote last night till the end. Don't know if it helped much but I gave it a try and enjoyed myself doing it and reading this AT again.

The owners of this appartment are very helpfull and will go to the car service station with us. Hope we can go home today but don't think that will happen.

Still have 30 pages to catch up on. Will try to read them all when I get home again.

Well done to everyone who voted over the weekend, it was fun yesterday. On Saturday when I was voting it did feel like at times, when the percentage was going down with every click, that no one else seemed to be voting, even though I knew they were. When the numbers came back it felt oddly comradely, with every click you felt that you knew who was voting at the same time. I'm sorry I coudn't make it quite to the end, had to drop out at 10.45 when I started poking his face more than I was voting

Have a good day, albeit clutching sore wrists, fingers, cricked necks, frozen shoulders - it was worth it

Well done

Enjoy KD and BIG

Alycia Debna-Carey plays Lexa in The 100 ( Ricky Whittle played Lincoln in it. Was it you Polly that said you were a fan too)

Morning everyone!

Couldn't agree more Lola - it was a fun day yesterday. Daft, but fun.

I was glad that the RT put the figures up, I just wish they had done it sooner. In the end I made it to about 11.45, so didn't quite see the ending, but what a great total! Well done to all!

Hello karin, great to hear from you and lovely to think you were able to get a bit of voting in. Good luck with getting home today.

Have a great day one and all. x

Morning all.

Great day yesterday!

Hadn't planned on a night shift but didn't get to bed until 3.30am anyway. Ancient laptop that hasn't seen the light of day since Strictly voting decided it needed 121 updates before it would close down

Sore eyes, head and fingers but would do it all again.

On another topic, does anyone have tix for Fusion Festival? Still no mention of Jay in the promo material. Wonder what role he has? Host, backstage interviews, may be Nathan might share the stage with his old mate???

Safe journey Karin!

I feel a bit ashamed now of my lack of stamina last night Could I have managed another 400 clicks? My fingers say no, this morning

But it was fun, wasn't it!

Hi Karin - hope you get the car fixed quickly and safe journey home. Just think, if you hadn't broken down, you wouldn't have been able to vote. Everything happens for a reason

Just noticed the page number - if I'm to get things on page 200 I'd better get proof-reading, sadly neglected yesterday (middle keys are not being struck as firmly as they should, I wonder why? )

Thanks StrictlyR, Speedy and Isih. OH is in Maribor now with the car (60 km here) waiting for the verdict wether repair is possible or not. We have motor problems and can't drive faster than 80 km/ph. We (my daughter, her friend and me) had a lovely breakfast on the terras of our apartment. Lazy day. Waiting for news and catching up on this AT starting at page 164.

Have a nice day all.

FAB-U-LOUS effort on the late shift - nearly 240k votes Maybe if I'd stayed awake a wee bit longer.......

As others have said it was really fun yesterday if a little painful at times


Loving the maths Nellie I've worked out that over the course of the poll lasting 57 hours the average vote on the other semi was a suspiciously mind-blowing 150,299 votes per hour compared to our (IMHO) very respectable & honest 11,119 . That's 41.7 votes per second

ETA - Nearly burnt my tealoaf as I was too busy doing maths to hear the oven timer 😮😮
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This, just this.
We are good people.

Was it silly?
Just a bit
Was it fun?
You betcha it was
Could I feel the Jalionista solidarity stretching across the sea to me.
Oh yeah

Doing maths is good.

http://jaylands.tumblr.com/post/1387...-that-are-like

Nice one fatskia

Maybe Jay can help me explain percentages better

Well done to you, wonderful Korks
With your prose about birdies like auks
It's been fun writing daft dotterel
And my last is the ring ouzel!

But this poor birdie's one claim to fame
Is it's unfortunate Latin name
For it can hardly be considered a plus
to be known as Turdis Torquatus

To everyone who has been using their Maths skills lately...remember what Jay said about how young TW fans shouldn't skip school and should learn Maths?
Well I think our time in the classroom came in handy yesterday!

I think it would have been more interesting if the battle between Jay and Aidan had been the final.

Afternoon everyone, just letting you know that I joined in with you all voting for J. Wasn't sure if it worked from here (berlin) but, of course it did. You all did a wonderful job. It did seem as though there were strange goings on though. Ah well, we did our best.

I'm still wondering about the huge vote on the other poll....I don't know either of the contestants, but obviously I'm in the minority on that one. But Aidan and Jay both being so popular, that much difference seems odd - even to a arithmetical duffer like me. It will be interesting to see what happens in the final.

What will happen in the final is that Poldark will be annhilated by getting 90+% of votes, no question.
Which will make a mockery of the whole thing

QED

Considering the accusations and allegations of cheating and corruption surrounding the other semi-final, I think both Aidan's fans and ourselves should consider our match to have been the true final.


Hi jackybob great to hear you were beavering away quietly on Jay's behalf...all the way over in Berlin.
A timely reminder that there were so many Jay supporters around the world that have never heard of the Radio Times but responded to the clarion call and did their best to spread the word and voted. There were still tweets from S America encouraging people to vote, long after the poll had closed.

Hi jackybob, wonderful to hear that the German Tourista vote was part of our magnificent combined effort. Yaaay

As jnb said, we did it our way

Before I go off poem collating, I just want to share one spark I felt yesterday but didn't have time to post about.
Lola said she felt a bit like Eeyore every time the % went down when we couldn't see the vote numbers.
And that reminded me of a thought I had when watching one of the TW links posted (probably by speedy, jnb or Lola herself, can't remember who; heck, I can't even remember which song it was ).
The other four band members were moving around the stage in a fashion, sometimes even in time to the music.
And then there was Jay, in constant motion, in perfect time to the music, full of enthusiasm and radiating positive energy, bouncing from one end of the stage to the other.
And I thought to myself, "He's just like Tigger".

*cue a CatO Winnie the Pooh parody *

Okay so I'm just wondering when do Jay and Aliona go off to do some training for KD or will they just turn up on the day because they already know their routines fairly well?? I'm just wondering lol

We were kind of hoping this week (i.e today!) they'd start training but maybe if not, next week?
Aliona tweeted she was back in the gym last week.

Definitely Tigger. Max as Eeyore perhaps? Tom as Wol, Siva as Kanga, Nathan as Roo (have no idea why, just a very random thought)

Hello, everyone!
I'm back after 4 days off. They felt great but I still feel like I haven't rested enoguh

I don't think I'll be able to catch up on the thread, but I wanted to say thank you to everyone who supported on the voting for Radio Times' poll. We did our best

Hope to hear more from Jay this week.

Have a great day, everyone! x

Just looking for info about KD and this clip is on Robin's twitter

https://twitter.com/keepdancingshow/...07538772996096

I can't see it very clearly, but I wondered if it might be J&A on the right hand side?

Could well be - height proportions etc are right