Zoomy's thing

Just to follow up on that post about tennis players of the 1980s and 1990s generations, the main draw at Wimbledon this year featured 52 pla...

The British Othello Championships are basically the same age as me, so compared to memory competitions (which only date back to 1991), it...

The 43rd British Othello Championship happened this weekend in the familiar surroundings of the Junior Parlour in Cambridge. The weather was...

I was just looking through my bookcases, and found that I own a book called "The Memory Book", by Tony Buzan. Which came as a bit ...

I don't seem to have played a single game of othello, or even given the game more than a passing thought, for a year or so. I really nee...

Did you ever hear of such a thing as a TV that tells you your remote control's batteries are running out and you should change them? Lo...

I've mentioned before that all video games created since roughly 1995 are rubbish, and I stand by that belief resolutely. There are exce...

In a sort of occasionally-watch-test-matches way, at least. But this last couple of days I've tuned in to the world cup and quite enjoye...

I like tennis at the moment. I recall blogging here, at some point in the distant past, that tennis was rubbish, but it's got better sin...

I haven't talked family trees on this blog for a long time - when the 1921 census comes out in January 2022, I'll have to get into t...

If you've got Netflix, check out Memory Games ! The documentary following Nelson, Yanjaa, Simon and Hannes around the world of memory co...

There's a website called Raffolux , which offers "exclusive raffles for everyone", that apparently very few people know about ...

I'm going to America for the 4th of July, and not for memory-related reasons either. It's absolutely ages since I went anywhere exot...

What's the best new pre-school cartoon out there, I hear you ask? That would be "Bluey" , an Australian work of genius that ha...

I realise I haven't posted anything here for a long time, and I do apologise to all the people out there who in my imagination are hangi...

This will be fun - the French Memory Championship in October, just before my birthday! Well worth a trip across the channel! The fourth i...

But I have to say, I feel very lucky to live in a universe where the Marvel Cinematic Universe exists.

I'm still really impressed by the four days of summery sunshine over the four-day weekend, immediately changing back to grey unexception...

Those following my cycling updates will be pleased to know I did indeed bike from Derby to Nottingham today, completing an impressive four-d...

I was only planning to go as far as Kings Norton on the bike today, but once I'd got there I thought I might as well carry on all the wa...