Zoomy's thing

I need to do some memory training. Haven't done any since the world championships, demonstrations for journalists and TV people aside, a...

Ever have one of those days when it feels like you've done nothing but talk to TV people? Well, I might be exaggerating things here, but...

I've heard on the grapevine that Irish TV show "The Panel" want me on. I don't know the show, but I can only assume they h...

This Morning was great fun. They cut my bit shorter than planned to make way for some 'breaking news' about Madeleine McCann (I tell...

I've just packed my trusty rucksack to go down to London tonight. I'm worried that it might be reaching the end of its lifespan, tho...

Now this is the kind of thing that makes me really, really glad I'm a memory champion! Forwarded from the WMSC, an email from another TV...

Why when I posted that blog entry did I get a screen saying "Your blog post published successfully! Blog anzeigen (in einem neuen Fenst...

Not the annoying flying insects, the not at all annoying national othello championship. Sorry I didn't post anything yesterday, but Geof...

Okay, next Wednesday you all have to skive off work and/or come to Britain to see me on This Morning. They're even putting me up in a ho...

Okay, this is cool - This Morning want me on the show! I get to hang out on national TV with whoever hosts This Morning these days, possibly...

It seems I'm probably going to have a big birthday party again this year. I always thought of myself as the type not to have a big bash,...

Ahh, bliss! BBC4 are repeating the sixties Batman series. Which, although I wasn't around in the sixties to watch, I have fond memories ...

Okay, I've decided I need to get on with writing this book of mine. I don't even care about getting it published, I'm just sick ...

I seem to have got addicted to hanjie puzzles - those Japanese ones with the grid where you colour in squares according to the numbers at th...

The great thing about writing a trivial and pointless blog entry every night is that you can check back on the dates when I noticed the 2008...

Somewhere between the hour cards in Bahrain and getting back home, I've lost two of my good packs of cards. Numbers 8 and 15, to be prec...

Hmm. Since coming second in the world memory championship, the only publications to ask me for an interview are the foreign correspondent of...

I had a quick interview on Radio Derby again this morning, and in the waiting room there was a copy of the latest newsletter of AORTA - the ...

"Names" would have worked better in the subject line, but I did okay in that one this time round. I did miss not doing daily b...

Wow, it's a while since I've been away from the internet for practically a whole week, there's a lot to catch up on when you com...