Zoomy's thing

The commentator on the rugby tonight described Sébastien Chabal as 'the 21st century Asterix', because he's really large. Honest...

Woo! I memorised a pack of cards in 23.05 seconds today! I should have switched to that shuffling-the-cards-between-my-fingers method years ...

I was quite surprised to read on Sam's blog that Wispas are being re-launched. I'd genuinely never noticed that they'd stopped ...

So, I promised you a funny story about jobs, didn't I? Well, I had an email from D E Shaw & Co, an American investment company that ...

Bumped into I'm-almost-certain-her-name's-Sarah-now again today. It's like buses - you don't see a bus for two years after y...

Wow, but Sonic 2 is a great game! I haven't played it for years, and it was wonderful to remember all the little bits and pieces of it. ...

The big shopping centre in Derby has been a building site for just about as long as I can remember (so at least a week, then), but the new-l...

Apart from the Channel 5 photo shoot, I've got nothing lined up or likely to be lined up in terms of memory publicity. Does this mean I...

What with going to London yesterday, I spent the whole day thinking it was Saturday. On the train ride home I repeatedly caught myself wonde...

Yes, I succeeded in performing a memory test similar but not identical to the one that the Japanese chimps do. Which is good, because they...

So, down to London tomorrow for two different TV thingies, one of which involves monkeys. It was nearly three things - Channel 5 emailed tod...

I'm watching a particularly dull football game tonight, and it seems to have drained my brain of anything fun or exciting to talk about....

In Dublin's fair city, and so on. The TV people flew me out there with Ryanair, which is the first time I've done that. It's act...

Have you ever spontaneously said something really funny and clever, but in a context that takes so long to explain that you can never repeat...

In honour of Blogger's continuing corruption by the German language, and the fact that I found an old Fix & Foxi comic in my flat to...

No, not achieved anything noteworthy like writing my book, but I did manage to say no to someone on the phone today. Regular readers will kn...

Of all the creatures in the world, except for gazelles, the one most loathed by Winston Churchill was the pelican. He had developed a deep-s...

No, actually, I mean the Tuesday before last. The one where I talked about Batman and Doris Day. You know, the 1960s Batman series is rubbis...

This morning I had a tune in my head. It was a catchy tune, but I had no idea where it came from or what the words to it were, if any. Since...

Well, I didn't do any memory training today. In fact, I've done nothing at all all day, unless you count doing a couple of extra-dif...