Zoomy's thing

You know, I really must write more on this blog. I'll try to keep up a daily ramble from now on - there's absolute tons of things ha...

I haven't played othello for longer than I can remember (my memory isn't very good), but I'm going to Cambridge to play it this ...

I'm just the perfect example of a healthy man, obviously - the American version of Men's Health magazine are writing an article abou...

The excellent website findmypast.co.uk has made 1939 register details available, and even though you have to pay them a staggeringly huge a...

Actually, I haven't got any cold turkey. I've got some cold pork if you want, it's really nice. I've got in the habit of coo...

Competitions continue to happen around the globe - since I last mentioned them, we've had the North German championship beziehungsweise*...

You can now register for the MSO - the timetable is here ! I really recommend going along to this, it's always a lot of fun. Take your...

I need to post a whole lot of important information on this blog. I'll do it over the Easter weekend. But I said I'd say this tonigh...

I just spent absolutely ages, maybe as much as 20 minutes, searching around the internet trying to remember which student hall of residence ...

That was a fun competition! The scores are online here and more-or-less accurate - it was an exciting battle all the way through between Si...

The lift up to the competition room (on the first floor of the Espace Moncassin) doesn't go 'ding' like normal lifts, it plays a...

The most important thing I learned today - on the French dubbed version of the Simpsons, the Duff beer logo is blurred out, because it's...

News websites the world over are running memory-related stories today! It's fair to say that 99% of them have latched onto a soundbite t...

When I booked my flights and hotel tonight, I booked them all for next weekend instead of the weekend after, had to cancel everything and st...

I haven't really mentioned it before, but 2017 for me is dedicated to living economically and paying off the vast debt I accumulated ove...

Yes, this year's memory competition season is in full Korea (career), with the weekend's competition in Seoul now completed, and Joh...

An update from the upcoming Korean Memory Championship made me giggle... " Announcement about Awards and prize. 2017 KOMC have anno...

I woke up this morning from an excessively-detailed dream about reading a book with such an extremely cool final plot twist that I might jus...

LinkedIn have jumped on the bandwagon of sending me stupid emails - today's has the subject line "Ben: National Crime Agency (NCA),...

Just to continue the sporty theme that this blog has developed lately, Federer beats Nadal in the final of the Australian Open? Just as if ...