Zoomy's thing

I'm moving house - and it's a proper house I'm moving into this time, stairs and everything. I've bought furniture. I've...

Okay, so it's now four memory competitions in the next four months that people want me to go to! And they're three international-sta...

Though I've got into the habit of going to the cinema more than once a decade now, it's still really only on long plane journeys tha...

Now this is how to run a memory championship! It's been a great weekend in Seoul, and you can see all the results of the competition her...

Someone recognised me on the train earlier today, saying I was part of his study of savants and synaesthesia a few years ago. I hope it was ...

Actually, it's hardly worth this quick return, because tomorrow night I'm jetting off to Seoul for my first memory competition (as a...

I'm in a student hall of residence in London again - the same one as last year, in fact. And I'm sort of 90% sure I'm even in th...

I'd better get this last part written before the competition on Monday afternoon. This calls for.... speed!  This will be, despite t...

On the morning of Monday 20th, at the Mind Sports Olympiad, we have the Natural Memory Championship - the second part of the big MSO memory ...

We're just over a week away from the three-in-one memory competition extravaganza at the Mind Sports Olympiad, and it's not too late...

I just saw Ant-Man and the Wasp - two visits to the cinema in a year, I'm definitely a movie-fanatic now! And I'm still completely i...

Remember eleven years ago, when the UK Memory Championship was in Highley, and I thought it would be a cool and appropriate tribute to my th...

Still the best superhero comic on the shelves at the moment, Runaways is now up to #11 of the latest series, and (impressively, considering ...

The BBC make you create an account if you want to listen to the radio online now, which I think is quite shocking. They'll be making me ...

Or at least Novak Djokovic and the French football team are. And for that matter, so is John Graham, who's just won the US Memory Champi...

I'm officially going to Seoul in August, which is really extremely cool. I've even resolved to do some proper practice, although tha...

One thing I didn't mention yesterday about our room in the castle keep, was that it's full of swords and shields, various torture de...

It's the othello nationals, in the scenic location of the confusingly-named Newcastle Castle. Which is, of course, a very old castle. ...

What I really want from the World Cup is for England to beat Brazil in the final, because that would just be really cool. So it would make m...

Newcastle, this weekend! For the national othello championship! The nationals are always cleverly arranged so that they start after lunch on...