Zoomy's thing

As I've probably mentioned before, I'm a sucker for anything muppet-related, and surprisingly passionate about TV shows intended for...

I've got a terrible cold. I was going to go into work today, but instead I've only ventured as far as the Co-op to buy some lemsip, ...

When I was at primary school, there was a TV show called Record Breakers, which showcased people breaking world records, and had a very catc...

Well, Weird Internet Friend #2 is safely on his way back to America, hopefully (I left him in the capable hands of Another Weird Internet Fr...

I should have mentioned last night that the Kölner Dom is a really beautiful building. I went along to see it this morning, seeing as it...

This hotel I'm staying in in Köln really isn't very Handy if you haven't got a mobile phone. To check in, you have to call a pho...

Okay, Weird Internet Friend #2 is safely installed here, although he got detained at immigration presumably because they thought he was some...

See, there are two "championships" at the UK Memory Championships - one just for British people, and one for foreigners. Or rather...

Upstairs in the Science Museum in London, there's a really cool-looking little library room, with double-decker bookcases (there's a...

Another thing I'm on is my way to London, and another is cloud nine, because I'm off work for the next week and a half, and I've...

Last week, looking through my bookcases for something to read on the train to work, I grabbed Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King. And then ...

It's always great to have the football back after a long summer without, isn't it? And this season, in addition to enjoying the game...

Even though the whole town of Beeston is in the process of being demolished to make way for the trams, it's actually really cool around ...

Yes, I haven't posted anything here for a month, and I'm terribly sorry about that. But I just checked back in the old posts to see ...

Occasionally I see those competitions on ITV football where the prize is excessively huge - a month-long globe-trotting holiday to see the C...

If you're interested in memory talk but hadn't heard the latest news, get over to Mnemotechnics.org , where I'm answering any qu...

You've got to feel a bit sorry for David Ferrer. He's really awesome at tennis, but he doesn't get to be Spain's national he...

Writer's block. Of a very psychological kind. See, I agreed to write memory-related things in return for money, and the idea seems to ha...

The Quad in Derby is launching a season on the theme of memory, and an exhibition of the works of William Kentridge. And seeing as I've...

Someone I know was convinced that it was his 38th birthday the other day, until I pointed out that if he was born in 1976, same as me, that ...