Zoomy's thing

Tim, the awesome guy from the Attenborough Nature Reserve, created a brilliant black-and-white-patterned door sign for the conference room, ...

We're talking months, that's for sure. And quite a lot of them. I'm sure I'm going to put in a great performance at the nati...

First off, can I just tell Yahoo news that you can't call a man with huge biceps "the real-life Popeye"? Popeye has huge forea...

I see on the news that they've found the head of former EastEnders actress Gemma McCluskie. I know it's a fairly gruesome subject to...

Yesterday's big long blog post was sort of an experiment to see if anyone was still reading this thing. And since nobody complained abou...

Blogger tells me that someone came to this blog today by googling "brad pridemore world memory champ 2004". "Brad Pridemore...

So, what have I been doing these past several months? Well, not a lot, really. Working, which is never a good thing, but is really quite nec...

Going to work on the train in the morning, you start to recognise the other people who make that journey every day. I tend to name them afte...

This spectacular event happens on Saturday 15th (afternoon only) and Sunday 16th (all day) of September - that's the weekend after next ...

Having had my brother staying with me for the last two months, I've got the flat all to myself once more, and no longer have to worry ab...

One question comes to mind on watching the latest BBC Just William series (I haven't seen it before, although it's a couple of years...

So, apparently the Dandy comic is going to cease production soon, after 75 years of publication. And after I was sort-of mostly nice about i...

Wow, that camera on ITV's football coverage is tilted at a weird angle! And it zooms and swings about really stangely, too. Is this the ...

Cycling home, I go past a sign with a big painted-over brown rectangle on it. Looking closer, it turns out it used to point the way to The A...

I keep composing books in my head and not ever putting metaphorical pen to paper, or actual fingers to keyboard. I really need to. I still v...

My telly seems to be on its last metaphorical legs. It sits on the floor, so it hasn't even got legs on some kind of fancy table underne...

Hooray for that trainee accountant who won a gold medal in rowing or something. Almost as cool as when I was a trainee accountant who won a ...

Well, even though I couldn't go to the German Memory Championship (money thing), it remains the competition where everyone gives their b...

I've just looked out of the window and noticed that the nursery place across the road (well, sort of across two or three roads, but it...

I have trouble with remembering names. At work today, I was talking about someone called Jason, while someone else nearby was talking loudly...