Zoomy's thing

 I did indeed get knocked out in the first round of the Microsoft Excel World Championship at the weekend, but as I told you, I was  drawn a...

 I promised, a while ago , to tell my blog-readers all about the coolest dream I had as a child. And no amount of apathy from my loyal reade...

 It's my 47th birthday! Honestly, it's hardly worth celebrating when you get to such a big number. 47 is a good number for fans of S...

 Do you remember, many years ago, there was some kind of 'comedy night', maybe on Channel 4, which included a series of short sketch...

 Actually, as I said, I was already qualified for the world championship, and didn't need to compete in the final qualifying round yeste...

When I moved to Redditch, I had no idea it was the national hub of Star Wars figure collectors' events, but it is - a couple of times a ...

 You might remember that DNA test I did last year, and the "Ethnicity Estimate" that it provided . Well, Ancestry have updated the...

 There, see, I told you I could do a blog post every day for a whole month!

  The ghosts in Pac-Man aren't actually ghosts, they're just hiding under sheets. I've always called them ghosts, though, and do...

 Or at least I could in a dream I had last night. Now, I fairly often dream that I can fly, but it's usually more a sort of long jump, r...

 That's the header of an email I got today, urging people to sign up for the Microsoft Excel Collegiate Challenge if they fall into the ...

 Mrs Henry Wood seems to have named a lot of her novels after the first story hook she thought of, and then written a story to fill it out t...

The good old-fashioned International Standard memory competition that is the German Memory Championship is happening in October - details ar...

Obviously, it's sometimes nice to watch an exciting, evenly-matched game of football on telly on a Sunday afternoon, but it's also e...

 I'm really bad at explaining my clever thought processes. I'm trying to describe the optimum way to solve the puzzles from that mat...

 Redditch is the premier venue for Star Wars figure collectors, you know. There's a big festival here a couple of times a year, and the ...

 I've had this book of poems since time immemorial. The title is a little creepy... And it comes from this poem, translated from the Jap...

 This whole 'daily blog' thing is going very well, although I do seem to be running short of things to write about...

 I would never dream of listening to Radio 1 normally. It's for dreadful young people who listen to awful modern music. But having got a...

 I think that a blog post looks better if there's a picture to illustrate it. So here's a yellow Cliffjumper, showing Transformers c...