Zoomy's thing

I've just stopped off at my hotel to enthuse about the othello tournament. I didn't win, but I came an even closer second than I did...

I'm in my hotel in Cambridge, complete with wireless internet access in the room. Rather temperamental internet access that goes on and ...

There are lots and lots of things I need to remember to take down to Cambridge with me tomorrow. And unlike other times when I go away for t...

But the scanned covers I wanted to include in what would have been a very long and boring post won't upload, so I'll save it for ano...

I'm going to give blood. I've never done it before, and I've spent practically my whole life saying 'I must get round to doi...

I still need to print everything out for the Cambridge championship. It's surprising how much all those sheets of paper weigh, you know....

That tape I trod on last week? Fixed! Thanks to Ravinder, who advised me that you can cut the clear plastic bit out without ruining it, and ...

There are some things about Boston that are going to stay the same forever. The double-glazing saleswoman in the market who has spent every ...

I've been talking at great length just lately with Ravinder about this documentary. It does look like it's definitely going to happe...

For some reason, everybody in the world has emailed me about the Cambridge championship today. Okay, partly my fault since I posted on the f...

I've spent the whole afternoon doodling. That comic strip I was artist's-blocked with last week - I suddenly had the urge to sit dow...

I'm watching "The Diary of a Nobody" on BBC4. It's not a dramatisation so much as Hugh Bonneville reciting edited highligh...

I trod on a video tape and now it doesn't work properly any more. It's one of the ones with cartoons taped off the telly, and there ...

Doing my shopping at Sainsbury's today, I found myself at the till behind a large, elderly woman whose credit card was declined. Obvious...

Yes, I said Sunday. Consider this a bonus. The civil partnership ceremony and subsequent festivities finished early enough that I decided to...

Norwich this weekend! Never been there and have no idea what it's like. Still, hopefully I'll have time to poke around the charity s...

I've been trying to draw a comic strip. I sometimes get the impression that if I sit down and try to draw things I'll acquire great ...

I had a phone call yesterday saying "hello, this is the Maid's Head hotel, we had you booked in to stay with us last Friday......

I did a pack of cards in 25.98 seconds today, which I think is possibly a new personal best. That I can't remember for certain whether i...

The hotel I was staying at in Ashford is a swanky enough place to have a sewing kit in each room, sitting on top of the Corby trouser press ...