Zoomy's thing

Othello in the spiritual home of the game (in Britain, at least), Cambridge! Having bought extra-cheap advance tickets (the ones that are on...

Ace has kindly posted pictures of the great York get-together of 2001 on Facebook, and it provokes many thoughts within my brain. Firstly, t...

I had a really great dream last night, in which an acquaintance who happened to be the captain of a cruise ship gave me the job of first off...

I've been more than a little neglectful of this poor blog lately. I didn't even mention that I was doing a memory performance yester...

Okay, we're three episodes in to the new series of Doctor Who (or the second half of series 7, as they strangely insist on calling it), ...

The Waterfall pub in Derby is now called the Wa erf, according to the big letters on the wall. I suspect someone must have stolen the other ...

While I was too poorly or too busy remembering numbers and things to be sitting in front of the telly, the Easter weekend saw the return of ...

Okay, I'm finally back home in Beeston, a day later than planned! I had to stay an extra night in the hotel in Pontypool, because I was ...

Here I am at Pont-y-pwl, which is what the Welsh call Pontypool. The train station is "Pontypool & New Inn", or "Pont-y-p...

It's Easter, and it's also the Welsh Memory Championship on Saturday! I have a tendency to do really badly at these things, but I...

It's been a while since I researched my family tree, but I logged on to Genes Reunited the other day to find a message from someone in N...

At the UK Championship in 2008, I was at my peak of memory fitness, at least in terms of National Standard competitions, which are a differe...

Those adverts for mind-altering drugs to use on your cats and dogs. There's something deeply wrong about the whole idea. Though I'm ...

I see that next Thursday, there's a match between Gateshead and Newport County, at Boston Utd's York Street ground. Gateshead appare...

Remember that blog last year about how my monthly income from "How To Be Clever" had inexplicably increased to the dizzy heights o...

The results of the Slovenian championship that I was so ignorant about yesterday have popped up on the internet - Christian Schäfer, Boris ...

The USA Memory Championship is happening right now, over in New York. Wish I was there - a Canadian TV company were looking for something t...

Normality reasserted itself well and truly on the final day of the othello, with me losing all three games horribly - I'm meaning to wri...

Othello! I haven't played for so long, I seem to have forgotten how to play badly. Eleven players, so a round robin with eight games tod...

Here I am, back in Cambridge. Depending on whether I went to the Christmas tournament last year (I can't remember), I haven't been h...