Zoomy's thing

I'm currently in room 53 of the Red Lion hotel, in Salisbury. It's one of those strange hotels where the corridors are like a windin...

It's really very hard to refrain from drinking cherry coke, you know. It's just so tempting. Maybe I should change tack and just try...

The Friendly Memory Championship happened in the scenic surroundings of the William Penn room in the Priory Rooms, Birmingham city centre. A...

I didn't get round to describing what happened at the Cambridge regional othello tournament the other week, and I really should say some...

This coming Saturday sees the twelfth (!!!) annual Friendly Memory Championship. I've been saying for years that I might stop doing them...

Here's the other memory thing I've been meaning to blog about for a while - Belts! Or, to give it its official name, the New IAM L...

The German Memory League Championship is happening right now - you can watch the fun on the Memory League website ! They've just had the...

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...