Zoomy's thing

Wow, this was awesome! Twelve brave British memory athletes gathered together today at the office of Peak to compete in the first ever nati...

Remembrance Day was last week, but courtesy of the newspaper archive on genesreunited.com, let's take a moment to remember 1916, when t...

Tomorrow it's the super-exciting Peak UK Memory League Championship! So I should really write up the super-exciting competitions from la...

I've just got back from a totally wonderful Friendly Memory Championship - the 11th annual competition, amazingly enough! I had sort of ...

A quick results summary, here in the beautiful surroundings of Broneirion. A small select group of memorisers got together to act as guinea...

It's a tedious process, it really is. Especially when you're running two competitions on successive days. I look forward to the day ...

It's the Memoriad in Las Vegas this week, which I would have liked to go to, but since I'm so totally out of practice I can't re...

I get junk emails quite regularly from a thing called "Authorcraft - the professional network for authors." I don't remember w...

I've come across the diaries of Elizabeth Firth on the universal repository of everything that is the internet. She was a woman of no p...

I haven't written enough about memory stuff just lately. The upcoming competitions are all taking shape, whenever I get a moment to spar...

An anonymouse asked me to write a blog about episodes of Doctor Who written by Douglas Adams. This is a very impressively random request, an...

Today's randomly-chosen comic from my collection is number 1010 - Hellions #3, from 2005! Let's see what the next next next generati...

Mid-Life Krysis is a song by Travis, from their 2003 album "12 Memories", which was full of protest songs about the Iraq war that ...

Could someone do something about that, please? Because I'm sure there must be some mistake.

Do I count as 'northern' any more? I'm something like twenty miles south of Birmingham nowadays. Well, I'm not southern, any...

In the latest random-number selection from my comic collection, thanks to an unimaginative anonymouse who wanted to see what came first on m...

A great benefit of the Beano's new policy of crediting its writers and artists is the unexpected pleasure of seeing that this week's...

I was joint runner-up employee of the month in September, you know. That's quite impressive for someone who does so very little work, an...

This week's episode of Red Dwarf, "Give and Take", actually made me laugh out loud, which is something Red Dwarf hasn't do...