Zoomy's thing

I've moaned before about E4 cutting funny lines out of Friends, but tonight's episode really takes the biscuit. They cut out the exc...

I get to spend the second half of next week being filmed again, for this ITV Genius-related programme. This leaves me struggling to find som...

Well, it seems that four out of five commenters who expressed a preference agreed with me that contact lenses are a horrible, horrible idea....

The official reason I don't wear contact lenses is that my astigmatism means I'd have to wear fiddly and expensive toric lenses and ...

There is literally nothing in the world more satisfying than doing an hour cards practice, recalling carefully for two hours and filling in ...

I've done nothing all day, so I'm going to blog about nothing tonight. Tomorrow, I will do things and then write about them.

I was sort of hoping that Reading would avoid relegation, if only because I don't particularly like Fulham or Birmingham, but never mind...

Let's talk about Doctor Who again. Well, I haven't done anything else today, so we might as well. And what with last weekend's e...

Okay, so the situation for the Derby championship is like this. There will be certainly one, possibly two, TV crews filming the event, half ...

I'm embarking on a campaign of getting to grips with abstract images. The memory competition discipline, you know, I'm not turning i...

As you know (or as you would know if you'd memorised every detail of my life like I expect you to), I disapprove of basically every new ...

As I might have mentioned once or twice before, I'm not going to say anything at all about the job interview I went to today, in case I ...

Well, I managed to get home, laden with my big heavy rucksack and four bags of miscellaneous othello-related equipment, without losing anyth...

That's Cambridge Memory Championship 2008. I don't think anyone's ever called it the CMC before, but I think we should start. An...

I ended up with an extremely respectable 4½ out of 7 today, which while admittedly not at the dizzy heights of last year's performance, ...

This hotel would be slightly closer to the city centre if you didn't have to go a long way round to get over the river. Still, it does h...

Well, you would, but you'd be bored with it. So I'll spare you the tiresome details and just tell you I'm going to bed. And I...

I'd forgotten just how long it takes to create all the memorisation papers and associated paraphernalia for a memory competition. I thou...

But this did lead to an exciting voyage of discovery deep down to the bottom of my Big Box Of Miscellaneous Junk, looking for my spare pair....

Now I come to look at it, that quote is much too long to use as a blog title. Oh well, never mind. I just wanted to observe that an election...