Zoomy's thing

Live league football on the BBC (admittedly not the games involving the good teams, but it's a start) and England failing dismally in th...

While I was in Hamburg, people kept emailing me with news about other mental competition fun. For example, the schedule for the 13th Mind S...

You know, it just occurred to me at lunchtime TODAY that Hamburg is where the Beatles played in their younger days. That thought never cross...

Well, people have suggested things I could mention about my trip to Hamburg, and my brain has thrown out a few more bits and pieces I'd ...

Plenty of hamburger-buns, but not hamburger-puns. I'll just have to use non-Hamburg-themed blog titles in future. Anyway, when I left of...

I forgot to mention that after the press conference I did a quick interview with people who I think were from the local TV news, in which I ...

I'm home again from Hamburg - actually, I got in at about one o'clock in the morning after a late-night flight, but I'd sensibly...

I've got rather more euros than I thought I had - about 100 of the things, if you count the 20-euro note with quite a big chunk ripped o...

Woo, just one more day of work before I jet off to Hamburg for a weekend of intensive memorisation! I'm feeling less and less like I...

Well, I take it nobody wants a fun-filled family day out at the Heights of Abraham, then. (Or possibly you just need to read my blog from la...

I've got Canadian and Japanese TV filming me in August, just before (but apparently not at) the UK championship. That's two separate...

"Zoomy's thing" has in fact been ghost-written for the past two and a half years by a team of ghost-writers employed by the go...

Hooray! I've won a prize in a raffle! A family day out at the Heights Of Abraham ! It does look like a fun kind of place, judging ...

I need to spend this coming weekend doing tedious things like shuffling and labelling the cards I'm going to memorise in Hamburg, printi...

It's always nice to know that some people are still reading this thing, and I do apologise to anybody I narked or saddened. But hey, now...

I deliberately didn't blog anything last night, to see if anyone would complain. Well, actually, it was more that I couldn't think o...

Tom Watson just needs an easyish putt to win the Open and he collapses at the last moment. And now it's after 7:30 and I'm wondering...

Watching 59-year-old Tom Watson embarrassing all the young golfers after three days of the Open makes me hope I can do something like that a...

I missed the latest series of Torchwood first time round, but I happened to be idly flicking through the Radio Times tonight about thirty se...

Yes, I've booked my flights and hotel in Hamburg, and now I'm all set for the competition. Except I was feeling too tired tonight to...