Zoomy's thing

Do I get a prize for my blog of two days ago when I implied that I believed Michele Borassi would win the World Othello Championship? It...

Late-night, extra blog post tonight, because I've just heard that Creighton Carvello has died, aged 64, after his stroke earlier this ye...

It looked like we might have as many as two British players in the semi-finals of the WOC, but sadly David and Michael tailed off at the end...

Wow, the World Othello Championship has been going for 32 years now, and this is the first time they've held it in a city that also star...

I had a response from one of the loyal army of blog-reading anonymice to last night's blog that I thought needed a blog entry of its own...

I've been told off for telling TV/newspaper/internet people that the memory techniques we use in competitions are completely useless for...

I keep being told that the local newspaper here in Beeston are looking for me. Apparently, they've put an article in the paper to that e...

And, you know, I haven't seen much advertising and decorations yet. What's the world coming to? If you ask me, any time after Bonfir...

Hey, check out Someone Sons , the Clydebank-based rock group! They, weirdly enough, referenced me in their biography page as if it's com...

There are pictures of the world championships up on the official website now, but I'm not going to link to them because they make me loo...

Any ten-year-old who knows what dauphinoise potatoes are, let alone how to cook them, is too posh for her own good. Breaded sole indeed. If ...

I nobly and selflessly volunteered to phone a guy called Alex at a radio station, and not even to talk about how great I am either, only to ...

My passing mention of the Cambridge Memory Championship last night provoked a surprising flurry of emails and comments from people wanting t...

Well, now that I'm officially free to write about something other than memory, let's talk about memory. Am I going to win next year?...

Let me finish my account of the world championship now, before the next one comes around. As you may recall, I had a very comfortable lead g...

It's terrible, knowing that I still need to get round to finishing my account of the world memory championships. Because I just can'...

Sorry, can't really write anything in depth tonight, either - my brother's coming round for the weekend, so I set aside this evening...

I will finish my account of the WMC, it's just not going to be until I find the time to sit down in an evening and type. Sorry to leave ...

It's footy on the telly tonight, and I haven't got the time or the inclination to continue my thrilling account of the world memory ...

How can my rear bike light not be in the same box as the front one? I need it to get to and from work tomorrow without being killed! Maybe I...