It is aerodynamically impossible for bumblebees to fly...

...except in Georgia, as three kids in yellow and black striped outfits (with a collective age that is less than this current blogger's) have just taken the 2008 Junior Eurovision Song Contest title in Cyprus. The song is called Bzzz...

For some reason, the show was presented by a pair of Londoners, but despite all the dreadful, dreadful music - even by Eurovision standards - there was a very poignant moment when the girl reading out the Russian scores gave the 12 to Georgia with a genuinely cheery smile. Sometimes, dagnammit, those kids can teach us a thing or two. The Georgians didn't return the favour.

Georgia has pulled out of the 2009 Contest in Moscow due to the political events earlier this year.

Some cynics are already suggesting this pint-sized victory is a rather convenient, sugar-coated way of enticing them back...