Zoomy's thing

 Or 'pairings' as we call them in the kind of competitions I usually enter. But people are throwing brackets at me today! Two differ...

 Did you know there's such a thing as the Microsoft Excel World Championship ? I only found out that it exists just recently, but it...

 I did eventually get that DNA analysis thing that I mentioned a while ago. It's good to see links to distant relatives who, next time I...

 People quite often find this blog by searching for details of when Thundercats was broadcast on British TV, and stumbling across an old and...

 Walking past the barber's shop in the town centre, I saw the proprietor having a smoke outside, and a teenage boy came up and asked him...

 I'm in a bit of a Stephen King mood lately, although to be fair I'm almost always in a bit of a Stephen King mood - you can always ...

 I did think about going to watch Redditch Utd tonight in their game that was happening at the same time as England v Germany. I mean, the i...

I'm not going to come up with six items of news to justify the title, I just want to remind all my readers that Shadowstone Park continu...

 As you might recall from the couple of times I've mentioned it before, I've developed a sort of elderly-man glee at the way men bor...

 My own performance in the Asian-Oceanian Open was embarrassingly bad, even for a match at one o'clock in the morning, but it's been...

 It's the Asian-Oceanian Open this weekend! You may remember [first and only memory joke in this blog post, I promise] that we have thre...

Marvel Comics actually have a history of almost boasting about this period of their history. There have been editorials along the lines of ...

 Back at the dawn of time (April this year) I thought it might be fun to do one of those online DNA analysis things that some people believe...

 I've done a full day's practice for the Marathon Memory Championship! 30-minute binary, numbers and cards, and three tries at spoke...

 You know, the last entry was meant to be called "Miss Bindergarten is an old lady", or something along those lines. I changed it ...

 If you're not familiar with the wonderful Miss Bindergarten series of American children's picture books, then you jolly well should...

Okay, I'm not an actor. I don't really claim to be one, but I do have an account on backstage.com. Nobody has ever used it to contac...

 It's now possible to register for the Mind Sports Olympiad 2022! It'll take place 25 years after the first one, you know - this mak...