Zoomy's thing

I was planning to stay over in Cambridge tonight, seeing as I'm going to London tomorrow, but we finished the othello earlier than expec...

Ahh, nearly the weekend again. If I was gainfully employed, that might mean something, but still, this weekend will be fun. On Saturday we h...

Well, England made a complete mess of the football, didn't they? Ah well, that means I won't spend so much time watching matches on ...

"Father's fallen into the lion pit again," Henry said, strolling unhurriedly into the drawing room. "How typical of the m...

It turns out that Woolworth's haven't completely got rid of the weighing machine, they just stuck it in a dark corner where nobody e...

Ooh, Blue Peter are phoning me tomorrow! I'm going to absolutely insist on a badge as payment for whatever they want me to do. I drive a...

The rather uninspired title is a cunning plan to attract the attention of googlers wanting to look me up after this morning's radio show...

Remember back in March when, in a misleadingly-titled blog post, I mentioned that I really love Blue Peter and have always wanted a Blue Pe...

Remember back in early July when Radio 4 wanted me to be on Saturday Live? Well, they just got back in touch today, as if it was only yester...

I'll start with a confession - the song "Mr Rock & Roll" by Amy Macdonald makes me cry. It's also a good song, so when...

I've just seen an advert that uses that song. I've never heard it before anywhere except from the singing Christmas tree that used t...

Hmm, I'm feeling horribly unproductive. I think I'm going to set myself some hugely excessive targets to achieve tomorrow, so that I...

Ace bought me a star for my birthday. A star that comes with a cuddly dragon! My brother bought me a Baby-Face Finlayson comic library, and ...

Heat magazine called me today - they're doing a feature about memory in between the celebrity gossip ('about remembering the night b...

I always giggle at the sound of the German footballer Bastian Schweinsteiger's name when I see him on telly. I expect I'm mistransla...

Remember that interview at Proquest for Thursday? It seems that they wanted it to be Tuesday, but the guy at the agency responsible for pass...

Well, not that Gunther, and in all probability not actually my hat either, but there's a programme on channel 4 tonight featuring a Dr ...

Not only is its claim to 'eliminate odours without just masking' obviously a lie, I've just noticed that my can of outdoor scent...

Sorry, I didn't mention that my brother was coming round this weekend so I fell victim to my usual strange phobia of writing my blog whe...

I'm not feeling too much like a lazy slob right now. After all, I've been doing well with the swimming - last Friday and then yester...