Zoomy's thing

Number 910 in my comic collection, as randomly picked by my loyal blogling who goes by various aliases involving Dominic O'Brien's i...

Having watched the first two episodes (which is totally not a breach of my who-wants-to-watch-live-TV-nowadays-anyway rule because I watched...

My favourite writer of the moment is H. Beam Piper. Well, I say "of the moment", he died in 1964, but from my perspective he's...

After really quite a long time of hoping I'd manage to get obsessed with something memory-related again, I've finally managed it thi...

Biking up to Birmingham today, I found that part of the cycle route clashed with the Alzheimer's Society Walk for Memory; oodles of peop...

Welcome to the first in a series of reviews of comics randomly picked from my collection based on random numbers thrown at me by blog-reader...

First of all, if you haven't seen the Facebook event page for the Friendly Memory Championship , please go and check it out now! Faceboo...

Flicking through the Beano at lunch today, I noticed a new innovation - the names of the writer and artist of each strip, unobtrusively writ...

I'm down in London, having popped in to the Mind Sports Olympiad tonight to join in the nightly poker tournament, only to get eliminated...

Because, let's face it, I've rather neglected this blog just lately. I'll try to get into the habit of blogging every day again ...

2016 is the tenth anniversary of the first ever memory competition I organised, with the aim of doing something to fill out what was then a...

Lots of them! Coming soon! I will 100% definitely announce anywhere up to four memory competitions at the weekend! Stay tuned! Something for...

Everybody got the pre-season Premier League predictions so totally wrong last year, I can safely do my own soothsaying act without fear of l...

Remember when I lived in Beeston and National Cycle Route 6 went right past my front door? Well, now I'm in Redditch it's a whole di...

You see a lot of negative criticism on the internet nowadays. I think people need to learn the lesson taught us by Mrs Henry Wood in her 186...

Make sure to check out Alex Mullen's blog for his account of the XMT and the US Open (which didn't even get a mention from me, sinc...

If you long to see me rambling on YouTube about memory competitions and things, there are two recent chats with two former US Memory Champio...

The flora and fauna around here are just wonderful to behold - cactuses and spiky things, strange flowers and trees, all sorts of vegetation...