Zoomy's thing

It became necessary to assassinate Christopher Biggins, and so the celebrated murderer Richard Higginbottom was employed for the task. He we...

I've just seen a trailer for Happy Feet, which I might possibly go and see if I can summon the energy, that warns that it contains '...

I looked up in the city centre today, and noticed a little statue in an alcove on the exterior wall of a shop, up on the first floor level. ...

And as the bleak hopelessness and futility of Lavinia's life overwhelms her one cold, rainy night in a waiting room at Grantham train st...

Fond as I am of this little flat, I had come to the inescapable conclusion that it pongs a bit. So, taking matters firmly in hand, I decided...

I had an email today to say that the Chinese Memory Championships will happen in Shanghai on December 23rd, and asking me if I want to come....

I don't have to go back into work until December 1st (although I might go in one day before that so as not to be unduly stressed when I...

Someone's fixed my bike! The rear brake was broken, and I was going to take it to get it fixed this morning, but someone has rather inge...

Okay, I was just going to do a quick cloak-related blog entry tonight and get back to writing "Sympathy", but then I felt I had to...

It occurs to me that since bringing my black cloak back from Brazil in July, I haven't found a single appropriate occasion for wearing i...

I stayed up late last night to listen to Virgin Radio playing the "new Beatles album" Love, in full. Now, as I've mentioned he...

I had a phone call from the head HR person at the office this morning - "Hi Ben, just a quick question, hope you don't mind. Do you...

There are three flagpoles out the front of our office building. I assume they're relics of the car dealership days. But rather than lett...

I find myself in the rare situation of not having the faintest idea what to write about tonight. Nothing really new or exciting has happened...

I've got a new hat! I saw it in M&S and quite liked the look of it, so I thought I might as well give it a try and see how it works....

And I worked that out in my head, too. And then corrected it when I realised I'd got it wrong. Anyway, I promise that this is the only t...

Okay, check THIS out! "Paramount Pictures has acquired screen rights to the Joshua Foer book "Moonwalking With Einstein" in ...

Dagnabbit, this whole NaNoWriMo thing was meant to be a fun little exercise in breaking down my inhibitions and forcing myself to write a se...

I woke up on Monday morning realising that I'd composed a truly beautiful tribute song to Peter Cook, to the tune of "Matchstalk Me...

As best I can recall, the whole adventure started last Thursday. The flight was at 9:20, which meant getting up early in order to get down t...