Zoomy's thing

Re-watching The Muppet Show has really brought back to me how big a crush I've always had on Scooter. And the continuing talk of bringin...

Quite some time ago, in a charity shop, I found a Ladybird book called "He-Man and the Memory Stone". What with the memory connect...

 Just out of curiosity, I went into the seldom-seen reaches of "new television programming" to see what the new series of Futurama...

Researching your family tree does involve finding details of a lot of deaths. And I do recommend Infantrymen  by Mick Drewry, about the four...

 This is, reportedly, the first book I ever read by myself. "The Little House in the Woods" - the only credit on the cover being ...

John Hoare, of Dirty Feed  fame, recently posted on Bluesky about the inappropriateness of linking from a trailer for The Diary of Anne Fran...

 The Excel Esports UK Championship this year was held in the head office of BPP in London - if you're an accountant (like a lot of Excel...

 Over the last week or so, the most-viewed posts on this blog, by far, have been Into the Chipmultiverse , followed by The Quality Comics Fu...

 Watching old Muppet Shows and trying to identify which ones I definitely watched when I was young is an interesting process, and since it r...

 You may remember that last year saw the inaugural UK Excel Championship, a local spin-off of the long-established (four or five years) Micr...

Lately, I've been enjoying The Muppet Show on Disney+ - an enjoyment only slightly impaired by how annoyingly not-quite-complete their c...

 I was stopped in the street today by a man who asked "Excuse me, but do you hold a world record in memory?" It's quite a long...

 Nowadays, the Beano is full of paid ads trying to sell things to kids. Or at least there were ads in it the last time I noticed them, which...

 "Hot yoga" is apparently a thing where you do yoga exercises in some kind of sauna-like conditions. It's enormously well-know...