Zoomy's thing

I think my memory performance in all aspects of my life today mirrors England's performance on the football pitch - it got the job done,...

Thanks for the interested comments about me becoming King, but I'm pretty certain I haven't got a drop of blue blood in my veins. No...

There's an advert on telly in between all the cartoons I watch for a Fisher Price pink fantasy castle kind of thing, and the narrator en...

Co-op own brand mint humbugs are delicious! Possibly the best humbugs I've ever tasted! Go and buy some, and share them with me! Secondl...

That doesn't bode well for the memory championships, does it? Well, since I haven't left myself enough time to write about it tonigh...

At least that's what the website says. Personally, I suspect the name "Memoriad" is just derived from "memory" and ...

I am so completely in the memory competition mood right now, it's fantastic! I've just finished an hour cards practice, without even...

If the Canadian thing was ever on telly - they didn't tell me about it or send me a DVD if it was. I think they probably told me the nam...

I always seem to forget that episode of Child Of Our Time. I just remembered today that I was on it, and I never include that in the list wh...

I don't think I really plugged Ed's book as much as I should have done yesterday. Rather than sort of mentioning it in passing, I co...

It's weird, but having two days in Sheffield immediately followed by two days in Birmingham feels like being away from home for much lon...

If I don't perfectly remember something I've made an effort to memorise, like for example a store's credit claim values, I'm...

Well, here I am at the Hilton in Birmingham, being a professional memory man for the next two days. Ahh, only 48 hours until I can go back t...

Sheffield is just far enough away that there isn't a train early enough on Sunday mornings for me to come home half way through a two-da...

The council estate on Bumblebee Road has been controversial from the start. While the project was still in its planning stages, Porr-Lon, th...

Did a 30-minute binary tonight and it went quite well. Low score, but no concentration problems. If I can do a few hour cards and numbers in...

The World Memory Championship is a month away, and I'm nowhere NEAR match-fitness. It's infuriating - on one level I can't stand...

Well, the not-blogging-about-work-in-case-I-get-in-trouble rule lasted for two months, more or less, which is pretty good going. But I can...

It's othello in my dad's ancestral home of Sheffield this weekend. I've played a couple of games on playok in some kind of prepa...

Despite a slightly awkward moment going through security at Charles de Gaulle airport when the machine picked up an undeclared bottle of liq...