Zoomy's thing

Is a difficult word to pronounce if you have trouble with the letter R. So here are my plans for the next few days: Tomorrow, crack of dawn,...

I did a 30-minute cards practice tonight (it was going to be hour cards, but I felt my mind wandering about 15 minutes into it, so I changed...

Good grief, it's only May. Since when are world memory championships organised so far in advance that they're sending me emails insi...

Well, having done no memory training yesterday, I eventually managed to force myself to do a 30-minute-binary practice today, and wow, I don...

I think everybody probably has, but I was listening to the radio tonight when they played this completely awesome song that I've never ...

Okay, this upcoming three-day weekend is officially, scientifically, the make-or-break moment for the 2010 world memory championship, in so ...

During all the excitement of Pac-Man's birthday last week, I spent some time looking for interesting Pac-Man themed websites. One of the...

I mentioned last year that when it's hot, the living room and kitchen in my flat get all the sun and heat in the mornings, and the bedro...

My trusty chess clock (which has never in its life timed a game of chess, but is very useful for othello) started saying "bat" at ...

I hadn't considered it before, despite it being my ancestral homeland, but the 'hill' part of Hillsborough is probably because t...

Not one, not two, not two-and-a-half, but THREE different and unrelated parcels arrived for me today! From Japan! America! Norfolk! DVDs of ...

Very hot! The kind of weather for gambolling gaily in the fields, although I still have to go to work so I haven't had much gambolling t...

I'm wearing my World Memory Championship 2003 T-shirt at the moment. It's extremely groovy, but it sets me wondering "when was ...

After an extremely stressful and irritating day at work, I must admit it's nice to go into a final meeting and having the conversation g...

I don't comment on the news in my blog, as a general rule (a general rule that I break frequently, but a rule nonetheless), but sometime...

In a really awesome development all round, I found Bobby Bear's Annual 1933 in the Oxfam shop in town today, for only £3! More than a hu...

Here's what I'm going to do. I did like the idea of going on X-Factor as a singer in Brazilian Mystery Cloak, but I don't think ...

I'm having disturbing feelings of optimism about the new government of this country (I'm sure I'll get over it, don't you wo...

There's a van that's always parked around here, with "Survey Solutions" written on the side. While it might be perfectly i...

It seems to be becoming an annual tradition that the Welsh Championship is where I realise how very badly out of practice I am. Only last ye...