Zoomy's thing

Rafael Nadal and David Ferrer are playing in the French Open final tomorrow. They're currently number 4 and 5 in the world ranking list,...

According to my stats page, Dai's number-themed comment on yesterday's blog post was the 3000th comment published on this blog! I ...

You know that thing people say, that they only ever look at a clock when it's 11:11? All very psychological. Well, the headlines on the ...

I like overhearing snatches of conversation from people on the street and then speculating on what they might be talking about. I just cycle...

If you want to keep up with what's happening in the big wild world of memory competitions, you really need to be reading Johann Randall ...

The following statements were collected by the police: GUSTAF BOGGINS, HORSE POLISHER: "So there I were, out on the street, washing m...

Okay, here's the thing. For people who haven't been following my life in full detail (which I suppose I can forgive, since I haven...

They don't really do anything, even if they're freakishly long like mine, and they really hurt if you somehow open the bathroom door...

Watching the tennis on Eurosport (which is better than watching it on ITV, even though they show exactly the same footage at exactly the sam...

Really, it's any kind of modern technology. I mean, I hear there's some kind of new X-Box or Playstation or something that's jus...

Well, it's Dai's, he left it here by mistake, and the battery's flat. I think the main thing preventing me from getting a mobile...

What's with the weather? We had a beautiful, hot, sunny bank holiday weekend, and then it went back to cold and rainy and horrible when ...

The Friendly Memory Championship 2013 was a great and friendly success! For one thing, the weather was lovely and sunny after a pretty miser...

All I need to do is clear a few piles of rubbish out of my living room, and I'm ready for people to come round for the weekend's mem...

I have an increasing number of white hairs in the moustache and goatee bit of my beard that have resisted the all-over whitening of the rest...

I don't recall mentioning it for a while, but I really love Stephen King's books from around the mid-90s to the mid-00s. I don't...

Hello to the person, people or robot in Antigua and/or Barbuda who's given this blog 41 pageviews in the last 24 hours. I do love the st...

Sunday's competition will be the eighth Friendly/Cambridge Memory Championship! Interestingly, nobody has ever won the competition twice...

I don't watch the Eurovision Song Contest. And I mean that in the way that some people say they don't smoke, because they only have ...

See, I'm so unused to regular blogging, I forgot to mention a whole lot of things I was meaning to. So here's a bonus second post to...