Zoomy's thing

 I'm not in training for anything, but ASICS are apparently keen to "make sure you continue with exercise in whatever style and app...

 A new thing for me, that is. And a new thing for Britain, but not a new thing for France, where it's been going since 1987, and the res...

 Being sent to Coventry by your friends is generally seen as a bad thing, but in this case it's definitely a plus. A friend has pointed ...

  There aren't many people in the world who would instantly recognise what the title of this blog post is quoting, so perhaps I should b...

 But it's definitely me. Here's the story so far - I bought a lottery ticket for £2 on Saturday, and it won £5 and a free lucky dip ...

If you follow my Facebook, you might have seen me boasting yesterday that I've qualified for the Microsoft Excel World Championship 2023...

 I was quietly but hugely irritated last weekend by not being able to find on the internet exactly when the two William stories I mentioned ...

 Facebook occasionally shows me interesting things in the hope I'll click on them - today I saw the top 40 at such-and-such a date and m...

 Continuing the occasional series of blog posts about the early comics work of the writers of the classic Thundercats cartoon (which really ...

 "William and the Nasties" , the short story by Richmal Crompton, first appeared in "Happy Mag" in June 1934, and was co...

 I don't think there's any better way to spend the four-day Easter weekend than in watching my way through the first season of Maggi...

There are very few people in this world who appreciate why it's clever and entirely appropriate to create a picture of Dust Brain wearin...

 I don't seem to have posted anything here for a month, which really wasn't intentional. I should make a point of saying something h...

 I'm on my way home from Cambridge as I write this, after a weekend's othelloing. The finals are still going on, although as usual I...

I've said it before, but Excel Esports is a great pastime for anyone who's even slightly smarter than the average bear. This month...

Having re-read my way through all three-and-a-bit books about the Bastable siblings, I couldn't resist moving on to some of E. Nesbit...

 I'm trying not to spend money recklessly at the moment, after a year of mostly being idly and deliberately unemployed and also surprisi...

That shot of my comic collection in Mind Games: The Experiment actually gives a glimpse of two more comics, apart from the ones I listed in ...