Zoomy's thing

I'm wearing an old pair of jogging bottoms with big holes in the knees and somewhat loose elastic (what, you expect me to be a model of ...

The saddle on my bike came loose on the way to work, and kept tilting back while I was riding along. So I had to sort of park my whole (cons...

My arch-nemesis, Akira Haraguchi, has been up to his old tricks again. It seems that he's recited pi to 100,000 places, over a sixteen-h...

I've got a pair of corduroy trousers that I don't wear very often, but I've had them for years - I bought them for a seventies n...

I've discovered that I have no trouble at all with reading through and memorising 270 binary digits in exactly one minute and six second...

I think I'm putting on weight. Not that I care about such things, of course, but perhaps it would be a good idea to join that gym I'...

It's probably a good thing I haven't written anything here for the last couple of days, because I had an email that I was tempted to...

That was one of my dad's favourite sayings - he would have been sixty today. 59 is a really stupid kind of age to die at. Anyway, intere...

It's back to school tomorrow, the first day in my weekly course of learning lots of useful accountancy-related things that nobody in the...

It's kind of old news now, I know, but I've just been watching the Doctor Who episode "The Satan Pit", and I feel I have t...

The zip's broken on my work trousers. Luckily, it didn't come open until I was taking them off tonight, or I really would have had a...

When I have nothing better to do, or at least don't have the inclination to do anything better, I can occasionally be seen browsing the ...

I've been practicing mental calculations. There are six events at the MCWC - adding ten ten-digit numbers, multiplying two eight-digit n...

I feel like I should offer a heartfelt apology for yesterday's post. It may not be immediately obvious, but I do have certain standards ...

As I mentioned a few days ago, my laptop has decided not to let me use MSN Messenger. This is inconvenient, as it forces me to use my deskto...

There are times when I really don't like my job. Today was most definitely one of those times. There should be a law against making peop...

I went into a shoe shop today, for the first time in living memory. Mainly to see whether the "buy one get one free" sign in the w...

Early start tomorrow - interviews on the early morning shows of lots of BBC local radio stations about the launch of the Alzheimer's cam...

I'm bored! And by that I mean that there are many, many things I could be doing, like memory training, or mental calculations training, ...

I know I've wittered on a lot about finding old cartoon videos in charity shops lately, but that's only because I've found such ...