Zoomy's thing

Okay, here's everything I can remember about the competition! Firstly, it took place in the Lilian Baylis Technology School, in Vauxha...

The prize ceremony was long, but a lot less so than usual! Instead of calling everyone onto the stage to give them a certificate confirming...

Before I go back to the prizegiving ceremony - those things tend to go on all night, and then I'll want to go straight to bed and not ge...

The results from yesterday's events came out like I expected - 56 in names, 3090 in binary and 1529 in hour numbers. I'm not exactly...

It's not quite so much fun being at the WMC when you know you're not going to win. Next year, proper training! Definitely! Anyway,...

We've had the competitor briefing, at least. It's in a school sports hall, complete with basketball nets, cricket nets, vaulting hor...

There are a whole lot of scans of old newspapers on there now - on 4 July 1891, my great-grandfather was mentioned in the Sheffield Independ...

If I'm going to be serious about the world championship this year, I realised today, I'm going to need to practice abstract images. ...

Andi said that the highlight of his weekend was finding that he and I both use our stopwatches to tell the time - it was a classic memory-ge...

Dai said he can't get past the word verification, so I've turned it off again and will just put up with the occasional spam - it doe...

I thought I should mention it, since the organisers of most memory competitions are used to me by now and just ignore me, but the Memoriad i...

I came away with a generous wad of money from the Memoriad - quite literally, the prize money was paid to us in US dollars at the prizegivin...

I knew the organisers were tempting fate when Melik said we absolutely had to stick to the schedule today, because we had to be out of the m...

In fact, probably a bit better! In the way of such things, the opening ceremony was half an hour late starting, and an hour late finishing...

Hello from Antalya, where I'm in a hotel room that, to put it mildy, is palatial. There's enough wardrobe space to easily contain al...

So, on Thursday, while the Americans are preparing to eat their turkey, I'll be jetting off to the country of Turkey, and sunning myself...

Ray Keene's email address has been hacked. I just got the classic "Dear unnamed friend, I'm on holiday somewhere exotic and had...

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 ...