Zoomy's thing

I got a lot of stick last week for saying squirrels were great and not vermin, so I think the people of the world need to be educated - did ...

That's it's the 22nd of December, it's officially winter, and I haven't got my heating on. It's lovely around here at th...

Hooray for Marc Albrighton, scoring the 20,000th goal in the Premier League like that. And for having the same name, nearly, as the Mark Alb...

Apart from a swift kick up the backside and general telling not to be so silly and go out and do something worthwhile, of course? A Wikia si...

I accidentally knocked my laptop off my coffee table this morning and it dropped dead on the spot - instantly shut down completely and would...

The video to "Scale It Back" has been up on Vimeo for a month now, and it looks like the last couple of days have seen an upsurge...

It gives me terrible heartburn, makes me fat and is almost certainly really really bad for me. It's back to a healthy diet of water and ...

I didn't mention that an added bonus of this trip to Munich was having my brain MRI-scanned by Boris and his team of German mad scientis...

Some might say that the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry is an appropriate place for a dozen or so people who like to memorise long numbe...

There's a Woolworth's in the shopping centre in Munich! I've missed that red and white colour scheme and wide range of cheap tat...

I don't think I've been to Munich before. I'm not one hundred percent sure about that, though, because all day I've had the ...

"He's 38 years old, but the intelligence is still there..." a football commentator observed about Ryan Giggs tonight. Miraculo...

As usual, I turned on to Sky 1 at half past six to watch the Simpsons only to find that that stupid show Oops TV was still on. However, toda...

I remember I wrote a blog entry a couple of years ago, asserting that tennis is rubbish. So just to counteract that, I feel I should say tha...

The Facebook page for the Munich Open has an extremely helpful map on it, with a little arrow apparently pointing to the mountains of north...

My postman's a woman - she always used to say "It's the postman" when she rang the doorbell to deliver something that woul...

Dear European memory athletes, due to various reasons nearly all of the Europeans have chosen not go to the World Memory Championships in Ch...

It turns out that it's Thanksgiving today in the USA, as opposed to Canada where it was Thanksgiving months ago, and here, where we'...

One thing I really do regret in life is never reciting pi to 50,000 decimal places. Particularly because I still come across people who cred...

There was a book I wanted and couldn't find in the shops, so I ordered it on Amazon on Monday. Today, I was in Nottingham, saw it on the...