Zoomy's thing

I've bought a new Blue Peter badge on eBay. Actually, I've ended up buying two, because I was outbid on the really nice new one and ...

I have two fundamental principles that I follow in every aspect of life, which flatly contradict each other but which I still nevertheless t...

Sorry I haven't blogged anything for the last few days, but I just seem to have got out of the habit of finding a bit of time in the eve...

Lord, grant that Marshal Wade/ may by Thy mighty aid,/ victory bring! We really need to re-insert that verse into the national anthem. It...

I said I'd make a cake for some kind of work-related charity cake stall, so that's been my excuse for not doing anything memory-rela...

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...