Zoomy's thing

I know for a fact that I own a hacksaw and a ball of string, and they would both have come in handy today (for reasons that I'm going to...

That's a play on the word 'memory', but I realise now that it wasn't very obvious. Anyway, I did an hour cards practice this...

The wind is really getting stronger around here just lately. It's blow-you-off-your-bike kind of weather, especially if you're as th...

I'm the best othello player in the world! Well, to put it another way, of the four people who came to the Cambridge regional today, I wa...

I should do that more often. I've been to Frankfurt lots of times, but only the airport and train station on my way somewhere else. It t...

I found some extremely cheap flights and hotels, and I'm going to Frankfurt for the weekend. Just because I can. It'll be nice to se...

I have recurring dreams about my teeth falling out. Not regularly, maybe once every six months or so, but often enough to be puzzling. Clear...

I've not really missed all the unhealthy snacks I customarily eat for this past week of dieting, but today in Nottingham I had a fierce ...

I've been memorising all day! I did the full works - binary, words, numbers, spoken, images, names, cards, dates. And cycled into Long E...

Whether it's the diet or the just not-workingness, I've been doing a whole lot of cycling and walking this last week or so. I'm ...

The weather was too nice today, I'll start my intensive training regime tomorrow instead. Or, if I go for a day out in Sheffield/Birming...

Okay, so the corpore sano thing is all sorted (I've lost three pounds since I weighed myself on Wednesday, although that weighing was im...

I'm on a diet. It's the kind of concept that I'm normally quite scathing about, but on the other hand I can't avoid the fact...

I'm sorry I've been a non-blogger for so long. You deserve both an apology and a full explanation of what I've been up to for th...

These are things I only experience when I go to America, but that there should be more of over here. Actually, I'm sure you can find jer...

God, I love this city. It's six o'clock in the morning here, and I've already lost $15 at video poker but won $100 at blackjack ...

I'm out of here! No more work, lots more play, I'll see you when I'm back in the country!

The 2011 census is a 32-page booklet, full of questions about everybody in the household. A hundred years ago, it was just one sheet of pape...

Working where I do, you see a lot of dirty lorries and vans. Why do people always write "Clean me" and the like on them? One time ...

Once I'm satisfactorily unemployed, I'll resume posting something trivial, long and fascinating in this blog every single day. Well,...