Zoomy's thing

People occasionally invite me to connect on LinkedIn, which if you're sensible enough not to have heard of it is a sort of social networ...

The Enemy Of The World really is a wonderful example of Doctor Who in the late sixties, and I heartily recommend it to everyone! Go and watc...

Doctor Whooooo! Two whole stories (nearly) from the Patrick Troughton era found in Nigeria! That's my evenings occupied for the next wee...

I quite like a bit of American wrestling now and then, and lately I've been enjoying following the latest WWE goings-on. So I thought we...

I've spent the last 24 hours not being able to remember the quaint olde-worlde name for that skittles game. I'm recording it on my b...

Did you know that D H Lawrence was born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire? I find myself in Eastwood today and tomorrow for a training course in ...

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 ...