Zoomy's thing

Are you ready? I am, anyway, but I hope you're all keeping an eye on the website and getting prepared for the qualifying. Meanwhile,...

The World Memory Championship in Haikou is almost upon us! I'm much much less prepared for it than I ever have been for a world champion...

And to think I spent most of last year being awestruck by how wonderful it was, too. It's like they've genuinely run out of ideas - ...

I should address this now, before anyone gets some funny ideas. Obviously there is a lot of money at stake here, and having a qualifying ro...

Woohoo, great news from the Extreme Memory Tournament ! Hello Extremers, finally some updates concerning next year's competition. Her...

There are people out there who think I sound very northern, but they should hear the people I work with now. It's true, Yorkshire is a v...

There's a sort of wild discussion going on at the Facebook world memory championship group at the moment about the sheer volume of peopl...

I'm pretty sure I never expected in my wildest dreams to be thirty-eight. I'm really not sure what to do about it now...

The announcer on the train has just said, about half a dozen times, that the next stop is Duffield. It's actually Dronfield, but it'...

Well, I've booked my flights to China in December, so it's official, I'm going to the World Memory Championship. I would really ...

I've resolved to write something in my blog every morning on the train to work - it's all about getting into a regular schedule, whi...

Back home from the national othello championship in Witney, near Oxford. Which is a surprisingly big town for somewhere without a train stat...

Apparently all the children in this country know, word for word, a Horrible Histories song listing all the kings and queens of England in or...

I've got a new job, up Sheffield way, and it's not only going to pay me actual money for working there (always a plus when it comes ...

The nights are drawing in. Dark at 8:30pm? That's no fun.

In hopes of getting some people to come to the competition next year, let's talk about the MSO memory competition (or the Memory World C...

And the weather's been miserable all day, too. It's been really nice all week-and-a-bit, more or less, lots of sun and warmth with j...

It's the usual dilemma - do I write about the UK Championship before I've got the results to hand, and forget something or get somet...

I've changed the format of the blog - I got annoyed by not having any "older/newer posts" buttons. It's still the most bor...

Day one of the UK Memory Championship and I'm too tired to write it up at length - 18 competitors with a really wide range of nationalit...