Zoomy's thing

 There, see, I told you I could do a blog post every day for a whole month!

  The ghosts in Pac-Man aren't actually ghosts, they're just hiding under sheets. I've always called them ghosts, though, and do...

 Or at least I could in a dream I had last night. Now, I fairly often dream that I can fly, but it's usually more a sort of long jump, r...

 That's the header of an email I got today, urging people to sign up for the Microsoft Excel Collegiate Challenge if they fall into the ...

 Mrs Henry Wood seems to have named a lot of her novels after the first story hook she thought of, and then written a story to fill it out t...

The good old-fashioned International Standard memory competition that is the German Memory Championship is happening in October - details ar...

Obviously, it's sometimes nice to watch an exciting, evenly-matched game of football on telly on a Sunday afternoon, but it's also e...

 I'm really bad at explaining my clever thought processes. I'm trying to describe the optimum way to solve the puzzles from that mat...

 Redditch is the premier venue for Star Wars figure collectors, you know. There's a big festival here a couple of times a year, and the ...

 I've had this book of poems since time immemorial. The title is a little creepy... And it comes from this poem, translated from the Jap...

 This whole 'daily blog' thing is going very well, although I do seem to be running short of things to write about...

 I would never dream of listening to Radio 1 normally. It's for dreadful young people who listen to awful modern music. But having got a...

 I think that a blog post looks better if there's a picture to illustrate it. So here's a yellow Cliffjumper, showing Transformers c...

 Far too many people in the world have no idea what to do if you ask them what's fifty-three times forty-seven. Anyone who can't say...

I have a friend over on the sofa right now suggesting things I could write in my blog today. But now he's talking about how he always ch...

 I'm currently re-reading "Rose Madder", one of the many Stephen King books on my shelves. I do love his writings. This one, t...

 The 19th season of Memory League is getting underway soon - registration is open now and ends on September 20th, so get yourself signed up...

 Facing a long train journey recently, with nothing to read and a terminally low battery on my phone, I went into a nearby charity shop to p...

 Looking at the Blogger stats, I notice someone has been specifically reading the various posts I've made over the years about looking f...

 I was a fan of Mrs Henry Wood before I moved to Worcestershire, but her hugely entertaining 19th-century fiction is all the more fun to rea...