Zoomy's thing

 It's snowing as I write this 1 and I'm not a fan of snow, as I've mentioned many times before. Increases the likelihood of me ...

The Memory League World Championship is kicking off once more! I'm not in it, on account of not being good enough, but it's still ve...

I've been blogging here for a long time now. In fact, it's been more than twenty years, if you count the couple of silly things I po...

 I should write more about old comics I like but that my readers might not have heard of. It's all part of my plan to get people who rea...

 I thought I'd quote Adrian Mole as the title of a blog post, to create a sort of theme of new year's resolutions. I remembered a fu...

"Dave, I've been asking for the hula hoop for years. I would like to ask for something new, like roller skates or a new stereo. But...

A great traditional thing to find under the tree on Christmas morning is this year's Bash Street Kids Book! Of course, the ones from the...

The cartoon talked about in yesterday's blog post was first shown in October 2022, making its British debut in December that year. The b...

 I have a habit of falling in love with fictional characters. And of using the phrase "falling in love" to excess, even though I a...

I don't really need an email from my bank to tell me that my latest bank statement is available to view. But if they have to send one ev...

 I've mentioned before that I love the Nations League. I mean, I'm not really bothered about whether England can avoid messing every...

 There's been a rash of people asking me for memory advice lately (someone dug up an old post on the Art of Memory forum, and so a lot o...

 There's a big elephant in the room of my occasional posts about the comics work of people who wrote my all-time favourite cartoon, Thun...

"There is probably no better proof of the accuracy of that definition of man which describes him as an imitative animal, than is to be ...

 Except today, of course. Today has the right number of hours, apparently. I don't know if it's the extra hour or just that I've...

 The first two rounds of the Microsoft Excel World Championship were a lot of fun! I certainly found the first one easier than the second, b...

I've now finished watching The Owl House, and still think it's awesome... what am I going to watch my way through now? I need to fin...

 Well, I avoid the top seeds in this year's Microsoft Excel World Championship . My bit of the round of 128 looks like this... Mmm, it...

 But it does wander around Europe a little, if you follow Ancestry's ethnicity estimates. And I'm glad to see the latest update has ...

 Woohoo! I admit I was worried about my chances of qualifying for the Microsoft Excel World Championship this year, with not having done all...