Zoomy's thing

I still haven't watched the whole of Britain's Brightest, but it got me thinking about a change of appearance. I always do these thi...

I just got a call to say I was on "Britain's Brightest", and turned it on just in time to see the last couple of seconds of th...

I've made a slightly-late resolution to do some kind of memory training every day, even if it's only a quick pack of cards or two. W...

Woo, I've just done an hour cards practice session! First time for, oooh, longer than I can remember! Tomorrow, hour numbers, which I...

I'm in a talking-about-memory mood lately. I'm even in a practicing-some-memory mood! I did a 30-minute binary practice today, which...

You can tell I'm not working today, can't you? There has been talk about the title of "Grand Master" on the Facebook page ...

E4 is full of trailers for a new series called "My Mad Fat Diary", which is apparently set in Lincolnshire. Although it's grea...

Okay, here's everything I can remember about the competition! Firstly, it took place in the Lilian Baylis Technology School, in Vauxha...

The prize ceremony was long, but a lot less so than usual! Instead of calling everyone onto the stage to give them a certificate confirming...

Before I go back to the prizegiving ceremony - those things tend to go on all night, and then I'll want to go straight to bed and not ge...

The results from yesterday's events came out like I expected - 56 in names, 3090 in binary and 1529 in hour numbers. I'm not exactly...

It's not quite so much fun being at the WMC when you know you're not going to win. Next year, proper training! Definitely! Anyway,...

We've had the competitor briefing, at least. It's in a school sports hall, complete with basketball nets, cricket nets, vaulting hor...

There are a whole lot of scans of old newspapers on there now - on 4 July 1891, my great-grandfather was mentioned in the Sheffield Independ...

If I'm going to be serious about the world championship this year, I realised today, I'm going to need to practice abstract images. ...

Andi said that the highlight of his weekend was finding that he and I both use our stopwatches to tell the time - it was a classic memory-ge...

Dai said he can't get past the word verification, so I've turned it off again and will just put up with the occasional spam - it doe...

I thought I should mention it, since the organisers of most memory competitions are used to me by now and just ignore me, but the Memoriad i...

I came away with a generous wad of money from the Memoriad - quite literally, the prize money was paid to us in US dollars at the prizegivin...

I knew the organisers were tempting fate when Melik said we absolutely had to stick to the schedule today, because we had to be out of the m...