Zoomy's thing

I've spent most of the day being filmed, and then tomorrow there's more to come. It's tiring! TV stars possibly don't entire...

It occurred to me this morning that I'm not going to have a chance to go somewhere and aimlessly wander around the shops for at least fo...

A major turning point in my brain - until today, I couldn't hum "Worried About Ray" by the Hoosiers without it turning into ...

'Ropes' entered the room through the front door, and found Gordon and Borstal arguing loudly. "It's a plum!" screamed ...

Roger Federer reminds me of Clemens Mayer - they look quite similar, if you half-close your eyes (well, three-quarters close them, maybe), a...

I bought a lottery ticket today, which I don't normally do (I was feeling a bit depressed, and thought that since money is the secret to...

It's just occurred to me that I really should book flights and accommodation for the German Memory Championship in three weeks' time...

I turned down a job offer today on purely financial grounds. I feel like such a money-obsessed miser. Well, mostly financial grounds, anyway...

The TV series, Heroes, is really much better than it has any right to be. I love it to bits! They really have taken comic book superheroes a...

I bought a book about Jack the Ripper at the weekend, which makes entertaining reading. It's not really my kind of thing, normally, but ...

Ah, the Mind Sports Olympiad returns! I got the schedule and entry form in the post today. I'm pretty sure I'm not going to bother w...

I did 1224 in 30-minute numbers today, and possibly 18 packs in 30-minute cards (I couldn't be bothered to check them, but I'm prett...

I've got a sore throat from talking too much. This is what happens when I get chatting about memory to someone who knows nothing about i...

Nobody has ever said that to me on the street. I wish they would. Well, I did use to get "Hey, it's Adrian Mole!" shouted at m...

Until ten minutes ago, I had a definite plan for this blog entry. In fact, I had the whole thing just about written in my head, and I was ju...

Ah, now I'm really in the memory-championship-season mood! Radio 4 want to interview me! I assume it's because they know the UK cham...

I really can't think of anything to write about. Or rather, I can, but the one observation I want to make is an extremely rude and offen...

By which I mean that I've got several things I want to grumble about, and also something to enthuse about that I think is just great. I...

... has it started raining all the time just when I've started having to cycle to and from work on a daily basis? Actually, that's o...

I haven't really hyped the UK Memory Championship here before, as far as I can remember, and today seems like a good time, since Phil...