Zoomy's thing

I've got rather more euros than I thought I had - about 100 of the things, if you count the 20-euro note with quite a big chunk ripped o...

Woo, just one more day of work before I jet off to Hamburg for a weekend of intensive memorisation! I'm feeling less and less like I...

Well, I take it nobody wants a fun-filled family day out at the Heights of Abraham, then. (Or possibly you just need to read my blog from la...

I've got Canadian and Japanese TV filming me in August, just before (but apparently not at) the UK championship. That's two separate...

"Zoomy's thing" has in fact been ghost-written for the past two and a half years by a team of ghost-writers employed by the go...

Hooray! I've won a prize in a raffle! A family day out at the Heights Of Abraham ! It does look like a fun kind of place, judging ...

I need to spend this coming weekend doing tedious things like shuffling and labelling the cards I'm going to memorise in Hamburg, printi...

It's always nice to know that some people are still reading this thing, and I do apologise to anybody I narked or saddened. But hey, now...

I deliberately didn't blog anything last night, to see if anyone would complain. Well, actually, it was more that I couldn't think o...

Tom Watson just needs an easyish putt to win the Open and he collapses at the last moment. And now it's after 7:30 and I'm wondering...

Watching 59-year-old Tom Watson embarrassing all the young golfers after three days of the Open makes me hope I can do something like that a...

I missed the latest series of Torchwood first time round, but I happened to be idly flicking through the Radio Times tonight about thirty se...

Yes, I've booked my flights and hotel in Hamburg, and now I'm all set for the competition. Except I was feeling too tired tonight to...

I do have a rule about not using this blog to comment on internet news stories, I know, but I couldn't resist pointing out that Yahoo Ne...

I've been asked to put a link to the Major memory system trainer , created to help you learn probably the best system for remembering nu...

Tomorrow is the first anniversary of me starting my new job (I probably shouldn't call it my 'new' job any more after today - fr...

I've got a new stopwatch, alarm clock and comb to replace all the things I've lost/broken in the last few weeks, so now I'm all ...

Another thing I did in America was acquiring lots of those 25-cent coins with pictures on them depicting one of the fifty states of the US. ...

A day at work with serious jetlag is really no fun. I'm going to bed now, I don't expect to wake up until Monday.

I'm home at last! And feeling hugely sleep-deprived, despite spending most of the afternoon napping. Hopefully I'll be recovered eno...