Zoomy's thing

Just to complain a little bit more about the new Broons/Oor Wullie collection, because I can't read an extremely entertaining and enjoya...

That in pole vaulting, there's no rule specifying how long your pole has to be? I would have thought there would be.

I've got a 'teach yourself Swedish' course, but I haven't got round to trying it out yet. I'm pessimistic about my chanc...

People persistently find this blog searching for cartoon-related topics on Google. I need to write more blogs about old cartoons, and especi...

I went into Nottingham today for no particular reason, and was walking through the Victoria Centre when I heard the sounds of ukulele music....

The latest collection of classic Broons and Oor Wullie comics is in the shops now! Well, according to Lew Stringer , who knows about these t...

Someone found my blog by googling "The follies of men's youth" today. I'm going to have to stop reading that stats page, i...

I feel that I should record for posterity that my favourite poem is Rudyard Kipling's "If". The subject of favourite poems cam...

Hey, this is something new! Or maybe it was always there and I just didn't notice, but it's new to me! Blogger comes with stats tell...

The only real problem I had at the UK Championship was that my brain was running too slowly. It was taking me more time than it should have ...

While in London, I came across the most completely awesome book - "Find Chaffy", by the completely awesome Jamie Smart . It's ...

As I was walking to the MSO the night before last, in the still-pouring rain, a lightbulb fell from a theatre poster and missed me by a frac...

Blogging from London! I love this internet cafe next to Charing Cross. Anyway, I got the train down here yesterday afternoon in the pouring ...

Hooray, no more work until next Tuesday! Down to London tomorrow for some good old-fashioned MSOing and memorising and not watching telly (t...

I didn't bother to check the exact dates until tonight, thinking it was later in the week, but in fact the Saturday and Sunday just gone...

I'd assumed it was going to be rainy and miserable again today, but in fact it was sunny and hot and just plain gorgeous all day long. I...

I think I'm getting wrinkles around my eyes. What with that and the white hair that pretty much dominates my beard nowadays, it's in...

I'm back, or at least I'm back in a non-cohabiting kind of situation where I don't need to worry about being a bad host by sitti...

My brother was away in Leamington Spa last night, and he's away in Bingham or somewhere tonight, and just paid a flying visit here on hi...

The only thing I genuinely wanted to be when I was young was The Milkybar Kid. So this latest campaign of encouraging adults to audition for...