Zoomy's thing

"The Door" is a 1968 cartoon which is probably on YouTube, but is impossible to find because it's just called "The Door...

Temporarily back with Boots again for the short-term future - exactly how short-term depends on whether a regular work schedule helps me wit...

The Cambridge Memory Championship this year was a resounding success, I thought. Held at Attenborough Nature Reserve, which is nowhere near ...

Talking with my brother while looking through our collection of old toys (or, in most cases, small pieces of old toys that fell apart long a...

I don't remember ever being as busy as I have been for the last month or so. I'm running around from place to place doing one thing ...

I'm in Newark Airport right now, waiting for my connecting flight back home - I should be still in the air en route from St Louis, but m...

Without giving away any details, here's a summary of an email exchange with the good people at The Gadget Show: I: So, you don't act...

I think the pilot was cooler, actually - maybe it was just because we'd all done it before, but the 'real' filming didn't se...

It's all part of a clever plan. You see, I've found myself spending the last several days doing absolutely nothing - lying around wa...

Nonetheless, I watched the big fight tonight, and it really wasn't much of a contest. Just like Andy Murray in the tennis yesterday. I r...

Making a TV show is really fun, I should do it more often. It's a shame that I'm not supposed to talk about this pilot until the ser...

I'm seriously tempted to go to the Stratego World Championships in Newcastle on August 3-7. This will only be possible if I've got a...

Sorry I haven't been blogging lately, I know how many devoted fans there are who hang on my every word. For an unemployed layabout, I...

They're showing old episodes of Blockbusters on that quiz-themed TV channel, Challenge! That really was one of the greatest quiz shows e...

I'm back from Japan, and I'll blog about it tomorrow, probably. Anyway, I went to Nottingham today, and as I was cycling back, I not...

I thought this might be a good time to summarise all the Krypton Force releases of "Force Five" anime - see my previous blogs here...

What do Wayne Rooney, Jimmy White, Elton John and John Cleese have in common? They've all never been the undisputed world's best in ...

On the way to the Sheffield Regional othello tournament today, I saw five magpies all sitting around together in a field from the train wind...

I've got a terrible cold and I've got to spend tomorrow memorising a page of share prices and a bus timetable that I recklessly prom...

It being the third of June today, someone on an internet forum I frequent posted a link to "Ode to Billie Joe", so now the song...