Zoomy's thing

Something I could have blogged about yesterday if I hadn't decided to be all me me me with the resolutions is the Weakest Link puppet sp...

It's the time of year when people resolve to do things and then don't do them. So I thought I should join in the fun, since there ar...

There's a thing on the BBC News website saying that that advert with the drumming gorilla was the highlight of the advertising world in ...

Wow, I haven't googled myself for ages, but I didn't expect to come up with so many wonderful discoveries in one session! Okay, numb...

What could be more appropriate for the festive season than six consecutive episodes of Father Ted (not including the Christmas special) on M...

Much as I love my grandma, she labours under the mistaken impression that I don't eat enough. So whenever I come round, she plies me wit...

It's really no fun at all having to work late on December 22nd. I've done it before and not liked it, and I didn't have to work ...

I checked the Radio Times synopsis of The Grim Reaper Dog - apparently it has correctly predicted the deaths of 58 residents of a nursing ho...

Set your videos, or your DVD recorders or Sky+ boxes or whatever the cool people have these days, for 7:30pm on January 29th, for "The ...

I'm always delighted to see how much cheap tat there is in the shops at this time of year. Especially when it comes to toys. Can't a...

I've actually done most if not all of my Christmas shopping. I haven't wrapped anything up yet, but there's plenty of time for t...

(Written last night, but my internet connection died) After last night's whining about memory training, I found the time and the inclina...

Thank you for all the silliness, it's great to know that I can give orders like that and people will obey me. It's like being the Ki...

I can't help noticing that when I posted a blog entry about global warming, I got three more or less entirely serious comments in respon...

The Ikea store in Coventry is larger than most, being a vast underground complex spanning the whole of the city and parts of the surrounding...

After tonight, I won't mention Blue Peter again, I promise. But I thought I really should say a public thanks to the boy who reassured m...

To be fair, I did tell them I'm not particularly good at memorising names. Actually that's not being fair at all - while the names-...

As part of this memory demonstration we're going to do in the unis, in the spirit of memorising something more, well, memorable than num...

... it's really hard to think of something to write about in the evening. Well, tomorrow I'm going to get off my lazy backside (meta...

I switched to energy-saving light bulbs a couple of years ago, but the bulb went in my living room last week and I dug up an old non-energy-...