Zoomy's thing

I've been really insanely busy with work just lately, but that's probably my own fault for spending so much time travelling around t...

Not a single flake in Boston, nor in Beeston. And yet they cancelled all the football matches around the country. Wimps.

Ahh, the White Hart hotel, the only nice hotel in Boston. I think that's their slogan. Haven't been here for years, but it's nic...

Hi, can I speak to Darren, please? He's just on the phone. What's it regarding? He wanted to talk to me about a Japanese TV document...

Here's something different to talk about: Muppets! Not something that I've mentioned nearly enough in my blog over the years. But I...

I've been in Chesterfield today, working in the store there as part of the usual annual make-the-head-office-people-do-some-real-work-fo...

Here's an interesting fact about me: I'm actually not all that good at memorising things. I can memorise cards and binary digits bet...

So, I arrived in Guangzhou airport very late on Wednesday night, local time. There was someone with a big board saying "World Memory Ch...

No time to write a full report of the world championship tonight, I'm afraid - it's the office Christmas do, in (funnily enough) a C...

I haven't, but I'm pretty sure the Englishman has the worst of it. But I'm home now at last, after two long flights (Guangzhou-D...

They're still playing the Beautiful South in Burger King, but now they've moved on to the obscure early albums rather than the great...

I found the Topper Book 1973 in a charity shop today and was intrigued to see among the adventures of Nick Kelly and Cedric, Desert Island D...

There's some kind of horrific virus rampaging through our office this week, and everyone's either off with the flu or manfully carry...

Pen-and-ink, Sunday morning Well, that was irritating. Having got passable-ish scores in dates, words, speed numbers and names on Saturday, ...

Reminiscences of Germany will continue tomorrow, if I've got the time. For now, here's a conversation I've had with China (in th...

[Pen-and-paper blog, Friday night.] So, what have we learnt today? 1) I'm not nearly good enough to win the world championship; ...

Getting back from Germany to Birmingham was no trouble, but getting a train back to Beeston was a long story. Big signal failures in the Rug...

They're playing the best of the Beautiful South in the Burger King here. Best pop group ever. Anyway, time to catch my plane, but I just...

I've been meaning to blog more regularly, anyway - I've got out of the habit of it lately. Anyway, going through security, they sear...

My flight was cancelled, so I'm sitting around here until two o'clock. Or I suppose I could go out to Birmingham and see the sights ...