Zoomy's thing

While my brother was here, he showed me something he'd found in a charity shop, and asked "Do you remember this book?" ...

My brother's just gone back to China, having been staying with me for some time, and one thing we always like to do when we get together...

Facebook is a funny thing. Yesterday I found myself with invitations to "like" two pages - Dave Farrow's, which asserts that h...

The sun's shining! It's warm enough to go out without a coat, just about! You have to chain yourself to the ground so as not to be b...

If you're a French speaker and want to know what "How To Be Clever" by that Ben Pridmore person was all about, can I suggest t...

Really, it's not like the ballboy was a tiny helpless infant - he was a hulking great teenager who could probably beat Eden Hazard in a ...

There are some nice photos of the WMC to be seen here: Photographer Captures The Strain At The ‘World Memory Championships’ . I'm not ...

My Blogger stats page tells me I've had a lot of pageviews from Poland lately, so I just want to say a big hello, Pole or Poles who'...

Just a quick primer for those not quite as obsessive about superheroes as I am: Superhero comics were huge in America in the 1940s, nearly d...

Having publicised the Friendly Memory Championship, I feel I should tell you all about the other memory competitions coming up in the next f...

The combination of snow here this morning and the squirrel calendar I got for Christmas got me in reminiscent mood about the Austrian Memory...

Springtime is the time when people like to get together in a scenic part of the world and have a short, one-day-long memory competition part...

All of the newspapers are proclaiming that it's going to be freezing cold and snowy and kill everyone (Yahoo news included the phrase ...

Deal Or No Deal was really really great today; he took out the whole power five in the first two rounds, but rallied right at the end to tak...

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 ...