Zoomy's thing

Here I am in Lund, after the first day of the Swedish Open Memory League Championship 2019. Today was really more about playing and having f...

Did you know that if you're looking for hotels in Lund, Sweden, the internet thinks you're stupid and trying to say 'London'...

I really don't think I should be seeing TV adverts for Santa's Lapland, urging people to book a visit to Santa and make next Christm...

It's the Scandinavian Open Memory League Championship on February 2 and 3, and I'm going to go to Lund and join the fun! Lund is in ...

I've just bought a lovely bundle of Thundercats comics on eBay - the ones with the pull-out map of Third Earth in the centrespreads...

Two thousand and nineteen already? Who would have thought it? And I can't help thinking I should be doing something new and exciting thi...

I had various projects I was thinking of doing in this extended Christmas holiday, but instead I've bought a DVD of M.A.S.K., since I no...

Hey, look what I found! Those vanishingly-rare pre-cert Video Brokers tapes of Force Five still keep showing up in the most unlikely plac...

I wish I had some kind of football trivia blog that everybody read and was fascinated by the posts I make about football trivia. Because it...

Vindaloo vindaloo na na, and isn't it great when the national football team do something good? I like the Nations League. I bet we win i...

If you like podcasts, there's apparently one called No Such Thing As A Fish , where QI researchers talk about the interesting things the...

Well, I suppose I have to go back to England now. All this international travel gets tiring, you know. Still, it was a fantastic memory cham...

I couldn't help feeling during the recall for 30-minute cards "it really doesn't get any better than this..." I do like ...

I'm in the competition room at the IAM European Memory Championship, in a very nice room in the Skovlunde library in Copenhagen. Competi...

This is, apparently, my 2700th post on this blog! Which, considering I don't post more than once a day, is pretty good going, isn't ...

In the office today, someone observed that everyone knows the Jurassic Park music. I said that I don't think I do, upon which everybody ...

I had to do an unusual amount of talking at work today, and it's given me a sore throat. Do I really talk so little that it does me harm...

Living practically next door to the office is nice, but I can't help thinking that, especially with winter coming up, I'm not really...

This new house of mine is rather strange in some ways. Downstairs there's a big living room, little kitchen and little back room that se...

I do need to get into a routine of memory training at home again. Once you get out of that kind of habit, it's hard to get back into it,...