Zoomy's thing

Well, that's a bit of an exaggeration, but it's how I feel. The office in Burton is finally more or less ready, so I don't have ...

Of course, the problem with spending a weekend doing absolutely nothing is that you don't have much of interest to put in your blog on t...

Ahh, a day sitting at home doing nothing. You can't beat it. Well, nothing with a side order of memory-training, but I've talked abo...

The poohsticks gang are meeting up tomorrow in a pub called the Seven Stars, in London, but I'm not sure whether I want to go or not. I ...

Having finally got home from Cambridge after an adventure that involves missing one train, having the next one cancelled and trying to get b...

Sorry I didn't post anything last night like I promised - the planned moving of the servers down to Burton has been postponed, so we...

So as I was saying last night, football. I do like watching football, and while you might say to that 'so what', I think that's ...

When Harvey published the proof of his newly-discovered process for turning raisins back into grapes, he was awarded three Nobel prizes (lit...

Christmas is coming. I can tell, because not only did I hear 'Fairytale of New York' playing in a shop this morning, the fabulous si...

Well, I'm back home again after a longer-than-usual car journey - to avoid a big traffic jam on the M6, the drivers among us opted to si...

Sigh, another week in a nice hotel, all expenses paid. I shouldn't moan, really, but I think I'd still rather not have to work for a...

I've just found half a tube of cherry drops down the back of my settee. They're a bit sticky and difficult to separate from the plas...

Hooray for the weekend! I didn't have a chance to keep the blog updated while I was in the wilds of Cheadle this week. I did write an en...

Staying up till 6am drinking and having a deep discussion about my identity/identities ("Is Zoomy the same as Ben, or is Ben the same a...

I'm going to Crispy and Sleepy's for fireworks tonight, so I'll get the blogging in a bit early while I've got a moment. I...

Apparently my Weakest Link appearance was repeated tonight, but I didn't hear about it until after it had finished. Still, it's alwa...

I've now been commuting to Burton-on-Trent for three days, and I've yet to go there or back on a train that was running on time. Tod...

I agree with Mr Hardfur Huttle on this point - I always avoid buying medium varieties of things if I can avoid it. This is one of those hard...

Although they want me to stay in a hotel down in Cheadle next week, and the week after that, and the week after that, while I'm learning...

There was a really good cartoon called 'Pumpkin Moon' on Sky yesterday, chronicling the great Halloween conflict between pumpkin lan...