Zoomy's thing

I've been rereading Runaways today. If you haven't heard of it (and you should have done, because I only mentioned it here the other...

I've finally caved in to public demands and the difficulty of walking in my old boots, and bought some new shoes from the cheap shoe sho...

I'm a great pianist. Admittedly my repertoire is limited to 'On Top Of Old Smokey', but I can play it almost perfectly, doing ar...

That post of mine the other week asking whether having a hot water bottle made me an old man has proved to be very popular. It's got eve...

Yes, a bonus extra post tonight because I've been self-googling again and found this on a white-supremacist forum: "The people wit...

No human being can play the piano with both hands at once. It just isn't physically possible. Anyway, on Saturday night there was a post...

Just four of us at the get-together in the end - me, Ace, Jenny and Kitty - but we go for quality rather than quantity at these things. And ...

Going to the big city tomorrow for the Big VPS Christmas Meet - well, I'm not sure how Big it'll be, but there'll be half a doze...

My favourite webcomic, Newshounds , ended yesterday. Which is very sad. What's more, my favourite superhero comic, Runaways, is coming t...

My stopwatch has dropped dead. And I have no idea why, because it's practically brand new. It might just be the battery, but I've tr...

So, I quit my job. Well, as you know, I quit it a long, long time ago, but then they asked me to keep working as a 'consultant' part...

During the last round of the othello, an accordionist set up shop outside the window and serenaded us with the Tetris theme tune. Sort of co...

Here's another VPSer who has a blog that I was completely unaware of until today - my dear adopted son Mythril Knight ! Which is doubly ...

I've got a hot water bottle. It's rather a cool one, it's semi-transparent plastic so you can see the water in it, which I think...

I was thinking of going into the office tomorrow. The agreement is for me to go back on Friday and get on with the November accounts, and po...

It really is true that however weird or obscure your interests, you'll always find someone on the internet who's into the same thing...

Part two of the when-I-were-a-lad reminiscences from yesterday - Tumby Woodside railway station , of all things, has a page on Wikipedia. No...

I've been feeling a bit nostalgic this weekend. It started out as a more looking-at-wikipedia mood, because I've been increasingly s...

It became necessary to assassinate Christopher Biggins, and so the celebrated murderer Richard Higginbottom was employed for the task. He we...

I've just seen a trailer for Happy Feet, which I might possibly go and see if I can summon the energy, that warns that it contains '...