Zoomy's thing

The great thing about writing a trivial and pointless blog entry every night is that you can check back on the dates when I noticed the 2008...

Somewhere between the hour cards in Bahrain and getting back home, I've lost two of my good packs of cards. Numbers 8 and 15, to be prec...

Hmm. Since coming second in the world memory championship, the only publications to ask me for an interview are the foreign correspondent of...

I had a quick interview on Radio Derby again this morning, and in the waiting room there was a copy of the latest newsletter of AORTA - the ...

"Names" would have worked better in the subject line, but I did okay in that one this time round. I did miss not doing daily b...

Wow, it's a while since I've been away from the internet for practically a whole week, there's a lot to catch up on when you com...

In the Sunday Times article about the World Memory Championship yesterday, I'm described as "a bespectacled, slightly plumper vers...

Last night's blog was genuinely written by my brother, it wasn't me being silly. Normal blogging service will resume tomorrow! And t...

Yer is my turn ter write blog, am moderately drunk but w'd like ter make couple of points. Firstly, m' brother is splendid, with bei...

I might have mentioned that I tidied up my flat recently. This is, of course, a terrible thing to do, and only brings sadness and complicati...

What with being ill and/or lazy, I've really skimped on the all-important last-week-before-the-world-championship memory practice. And w...

I found my old leather waistcoat recently, and I think I'm going to have to start wearing it again. It always looked cool, and since I s...

For some reason, last night's brief post got lots of comments that I wanted to reply to, so, as an alternative to thinking of something ...

Ugh, I really am feeling rotten today. Just thought I should let you know, in case anyone wants to give me a hug to make me feel better, or ...

I've got a bad cold, I haven't done nearly as much memory training as I intended to do this weekend, I'm fed up with it raining ...

I now get 185 pages on a google search for my name, and most of them are about me. Now that's fame. I did the interview with the Mail th...

Memory, memory and more memory, with a bit of being interviewed and a bit of cleaning up the flat if I'm good. I've made significant...

All the shops that might be expected to sell me a new black fedora or similar are only selling 'summer hats' - either straw hats or ...

I was going to write something specific tonight, and I'm pretty sure it was going to be about memory. But I've forgotten what it was...

I've been offered an interview for a rather cool job in Burton-on-Trent on Friday morning. It's something that's been in the pip...