Zoomy's thing

The great Cliff Richard reaches pensionable age today. Many happy returns are also in order for Roger Moore, the late E E Cummings and the v...

Which inspires me to look back over the last year and think "What have I achieved while I was 28?" Not all that much, really. The ...

Am I leaving it too late to make a fruit cake? Most of the recipes out there seem to expect you to make the thing weeks in advance of eating...

I really can't wait to finish work at Parkhouse. There's just nothing to do there. I've gone home for lunch the last couple of d...

I was going to write about a really weird advert I've just seen, but then I remembered I'd decided to write about something other th...

I realise that this is the third post in a row where I'm talking about something I've been watching on telly, but what's the poi...

I thought I should mention that my washing machine worked perfectly today. It would be terribly unfair of me to complain on my blog when it ...

I love the new Doctor Who. I've just been watching episode 12, "Bad Wolf", and even the stupid storyline that takes up the fir...

There's a ladybird wandering around my living room. Do ladybirds hibernate or die in the winter, or are they around all year? I don'...

"In other news, Sunderland was atomised earlier this morning by some kind of cataclysmic explosion," mumbled the newsreader on the...

Forgive me if I cut short the usual three-volume epic tonight. I suspect I've been spending too much time lately staring at a computer s...

Brian K Vaughan is the writer of a lot of very good American comics. Runaways, about a group of teenagers who discover their parents are sec...

Thinking about this plan of mine to cook party food, it occurred to me that I have no idea where the supermarkets keep flour and things. It ...

Boston won their first match of the season without me being there to cheer them on today - one-nil against Peterborough (three bookings apie...

Payday today - the penultimate one from Parkhouse. And I'm already planning how to spend it all. I've got to clean up my flat in pre...

...things about moving to Burton-on-Trent. Good: It's much bigger than I thought it was. Lots of shops and things, with a town centre ab...

The above is my all-time favourite Wile E Coyote quote (closely followed by "I wouldn't mind, except that he defies the law of grav...

Stealing ideas for blog topics from Sam again, I've produced this map highlighting all the countries I've been to: create your own v...

Okay, I'm here after all. I was feeling a bit off colour this morning, so I exaggerated it a bit and called in sick. I don't know wh...

This being my second blog entry in one day, you might describe it as the 'pudding' to a main course of coco pops. And it's about...