Zoomy's thing

I was really annoyed, because even Tumby Woodside is apparently off-limits as a holiday destination now. But then I put my hand in my coat p...

Well, with the othello EGP in Barcelona being postponed, I've changed my plane tickets (Vueling, cheap Spanish airline, don't give r...

So, a couple of days ago, Laura at the office had a hole in her shoe and got wet feet. She asked if anyone could lend her a pair of socks. S...

I've got my brother here with me at the moment, back from China seven years after his last holiday over here. Which is great, although t...

Under the watchful gaze of the Marquis of Granby's horse's bum, the 2020 European Grand Prix othello championship commenced this we...

They're now showing the missing episodes of Bluey, and claiming that they're "new". So that's all right then. Anyway, ...

Remember me saying last year that Bluey is a really brilliant cartoon that you should watch? Well, I did - if memory serves it was on father...

Yes, I'm all sorted for passport until 2030, an impossibly distant year that's clearly never going to happen. They've changed si...

Or should that be "the mental DC"? Last year, at the exact time when I took a week off work to use up my remaining holidays, someo...

Long-time bloglings may recall that ten years ago I had to renew my passport, and expressed the firm belief that I was never going to...

25 years of the national lottery? Wow. I bought seven tickets for the first draw, I'm embarrassed to admit. I was an 18-year-old student...

I bought Sonic the Hedgehog 2 for the Sega Mega Drive at 1:27pm on Saturday February 6th, 1993, at Dixons in Boston, Lincolnshire. The ass...

Quite literally eight times out of ten, the last match days of the European championship qualifying tournament are a waste of everyone's...

Do you know what happened eight years ago this coming Saturday? That was the day I recorded the single coolest and best illustration of the ...

I've got this week off work, more to use up my remaining annual-leave days before the end of the year than because I particularly need t...

Perhaps we're not quite icy yet, but it's definitely getting cold. I really don't like winter. One of these days, I'll win t...

Just to complete the series of memory championship posts, the length of time I've been competing in the things is another subject we wer...

As I wait for a plane in Paris Charles de Gaulle airport (beautiful sunny weather again, too, like we've had all weekend), let me wrap u...

My new comment-giving blogling, the infamous executioner Jack Ketch, observes that I must be one of the most venerable, or at least elderly,...

It turns out I'm in the middle of an epic battle for second place, after the first day's excitement. Andrea is, not unexpectedly, fa...