Zoomy's thing

Yesterday it was the Welsh Memory Championship in the scenic surroundings of Llanover. I got a lift there and back courtesy of Darren and Cl...

I have been practicing for the Extreme Memory Tournament for the last week, morning and evening. Except yesterday, when I had a hangover. Bu...

It seems like ages since I went to an othello tournament. And incidentally, Blogger, stop auto-capitalising "othello", please - I...

Perhaps there are better things you can do with your time than watching six men pretending (very convincingly) to beat each other up, but th...

This evening at the Co-op I was at the till behind a teenager insisting she was 35 years old in an optimistic attempt to buy a bottle of boo...

Someone found this blog by googling "mask cartoon vehicles". Which is interesting, because I don't remember ever blogging abou...

It occurred to me that I should find out what parliamentary constituency I'm in now, and it turns out it's Mid-Derbyshire. Which is ...

Sorry I haven't blogged anything for the last couple of days. Busy at work and, you know, sleeping and things. But I've now got a ph...

... Demis Hassabis? The point being, I still get confronted by people who think I'm some kind of super-genius who's not only aston...

Isn't that a great turn of phrase? Funnily enough, I was reading an old book last night that uses it, and then today I got a Facebook me...

All this rain. I mean, it's better than if it had been freezing cold and snowing all winter, but I really can't wait until it's ...

But it's not my fault - I had to go out unexpectedly with work people. I'll return to uninformative daily blogging starting today, a...

I know I mentioned it a few days ago, but it's only just struck me that it's thirty years this year since Transformers first came al...

I got really quite enthusiastic about practicing 5-minute numbers tonight. This is a good sign, because I never enjoy numbers as much as car...

I have got to get round to finding a good place to hold mind sports competitions. I've promised to do an Othello regional and a friendly...

The best thing about the Justice Society of America, which I mentioned in passing several weeks ago and now expect you all to be fully clued...

I'm trying to work out how I used to fit in upwards of seven hours memorising over the course of any weekend I didn't have anything ...

It occurred to me tonight that I should be ready, just in case I get the chance to go to Tokyo again and do karaoke, and have a printout of ...

Well, it was twenty years ago in a week and a half, but it's close enough to get me nostalgic. Twenty years since what, you ask? Sonic t...

I need a clock to hang on my living room wall, and I was wondering whether I should get one of those scary cat ones with the swinging eyes. ...