Zoomy's thing

Wow, I don't even remember what I DO when I've not got a memory or othello competition to think about at the weekend... do I go out ...

For many years now, I've been seeing these internet ads urging 'If you have a £250,000 portfolio, download the guide by Forbes colu...

Remember at the start of the year when I said I'd go to lots of othello tournaments in 2016? Well, I did at least get to the Cambridge C...

The Peak app has a fun new game on it where you control a turtle, eating jellyfish and avoiding nets and traps. It's all very Ecco the D...

Anyone at all interested in Memory League competition should know that Clay's organising a big online knockout competition (just for fu...

I'm REALLY on the point of a nervous breakdown at the moment - after a whole lot of stress about the preparations for next weekend's...

Any British business that talks about "Black Friday" needs to be burnt at the stake and told not to be so American in future, unle...

I've just noticed that my last post was my 2500th on this blog! Talk about quantity over quality! I should have done something special t...

It's almost time to forget about memory for the year (just a few world championships and things to go...) and concentrate on what's ...

It really was a great competition! All the results of the first-ever UK Memory League Championship can be seen on the website , courtesy of ...

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...