Zoomy's thing

You know what it's the anniversary of? My beard! Ten years ago, give or take a week or so, I decided that shaving every morning was too ...

The TV filming was fun - something like five hours of filming for a 2½-minute segment on the show, but that's how these things always wo...

Being old, I don't like the kind of music that's in the pop charts nowadays, but the other day I heard "Try" by Pink in a ...

It's been a while since I was asked to do a memory-celebrity kind of thing, but the offers are coming thick and fast all of a sudden! Th...

The new series of Red Dwarf has been uniformly and embarrassingly awful... until this week's episode, which was really really good! Clev...

I hadn’t realised just how much time I’d spent making sure everything was ready for the memory championship these last few weeks, but I got ...

And what a great Friendly Memory Championship it was, too! I had the usual mix of nationalities staying at my place on Friday night - Dai an...

That's what Facebook tells me, anyway. But after a moment of confusion, I realised it was talking about that other Ben Pridmore I'm ...

It's not something that's really featured in my life recently, but I felt the need to vent my annoyance with books that tell you how...

It's my birthday on Sunday, yay. As I think I mentioned last year, I've always thought 36 is sort of a cool age to be, for some reas...

My horoscope says that now is the time to start following my instincts and stop worrying about pleasing others. This is probably a bad thing...

It is good to have Doctor Who back on our screens - it really needs to be on at least 26 weeks a year, preferably more, and when I'm the...

I've had dreams about memory competitions (or at least about memorising things in a competition-like format) for the last two nights. An...

I've been reading Frankenstein on the train journey to work in the morning - awesome book, and puts me in the mood to write a big long e...

I didn't mention that I came either fifth or sixth, depending on whether Pierluigi had a better BQ than me, which he probably had. Well ...

It was a great Nationals, all in all! Which is good, because I was organising it, and I'd hate everyone to blame me when things go wrong...

Tim, the awesome guy from the Attenborough Nature Reserve, created a brilliant black-and-white-patterned door sign for the conference room, ...

We're talking months, that's for sure. And quite a lot of them. I'm sure I'm going to put in a great performance at the nati...

First off, can I just tell Yahoo news that you can't call a man with huge biceps "the real-life Popeye"? Popeye has huge forea...

I see on the news that they've found the head of former EastEnders actress Gemma McCluskie. I know it's a fairly gruesome subject to...