Zoomy's thing

It occurs to me that I'm going to have no time to get into any kind of practice routine for memory competitions for the next couple of w...

I can just about understand them releasing Thundercats DVDs with the episodes all in the wrong order - there are lots of episodes, there...

I do like watching Champions League football. I've turned into a bit of a Man Utd fan these last few years, especially in Europe, in an ...

One thing people often say to me when I'm explaining my system for turning three-digit numbers into images is "Surely it makes more...

I hadn't been to Kingston for a relatively young donkey's years, and it's funny how much the place has changed. First glance on ...

Oooh, it's been like summer! I did get a nice short summery haircut, and went down to London (and also Kingston on Thames) to see the si...

I need a haircut. My remaining hairs don't grow all that fast, but they've already got to the length where it's starting to look...

I've trimmed the fingernails on my left hand and not the right, out of an understanding that that's what ukulele players do. Well, ...

I have to confess, it's a very, very long time since I did any serious memory-training. Tonight I did something that is part of my regul...

I was going to write a blog tonight about feeling proud of myself for getting up-to-date with my emails, but then I remembered one from a fe...

I've got a really quite big apple in my fridge right now, which just serves to remind me how much I'm looking forward to my trip to ...

Sorry, it's late at night and I can't think of anything to blog about

Grandma, reminiscing about her days working in the payroll department of British Jeffrey Diamond 65 years ago: "Old Sammy Wainwright, 7...

The Mensa people want me to do my memory thing at their Annual Gathering in October, as a warmup act for the Brain of Mensa finals. I'm ...

It's their joint 200th birthday today, you know. And while some might say Darwin is better than Lincoln because he appears on the £10 no...

... But nonetheless, I've just been interviewed for Men's Health magazine. It'll be on the shelves in April or May if you want t...

I did wonder how they'd adapt my repeated assertions that IQ tests are basically all entirely worthless, that no sensible person cares a...

Ooh-woh, nothing at all. Let me explain. Back in, ooh, June 1996 it must have been, I took out a loan of a few hundred pounds, I forget exac...

Sorry, haven't had the time or the non-laziness to sort out pictures of Ham and Ex to illustrate my planned ramblings about them, so the...

A sequel to this post and this one . I realise that census records of my ancestors aren't terribly interesting to anybody outside my im...