Whilst at the Deal or No Deal studios today, I was required to sign an extra release form. This was for an incident which I may be saying more about on 4 January, but probably won't be because any sensible editor would have already cut that footage out of the final programme. So unless you were there you'll probably never hear about it. You wouldn' ( Read more... )

It's so late right now and I've got to be up so early in the morning that I'm not going to be writing much here today. Instead I shall just mention the fact that today I saw the phrase 'follow the mole' written in the dirt on the back of a van. And then I went and spent the day watching three live games of Deal or No Deal being recorded. There must ( Read more... )

I received a flyer through the post at the place where I work today. "Mathematics in Paris" it proudly displayed as its heading, and immediately I became interested. "Price: 3 days from £179" it said a bit further down the page, and immediately I became even more interested. Doing maths? In Paris? Sign me up, I thought ( Read more... )

We often complain about the weather here in the UK, but all things considered I think we have it pretty good here really. Sure, it's changeable and unpredictable and sometimes a bit annoying but it's never really that extreme. Not like that hurricane which is, as I write these words, causing havoc on the East coast of the USA ( Read more... )

I was watching the new Derren Brown thing on catch-up earlier today. It's called Apocalypse and it involves the trickster's elaborate attempts to hoodwink an ordinary bloke into thinking the world is about to end ( Read more... )

I was the proverbial horns of a very real dilemma this morning. I had a decision to make which potentially could have a significant impact on my future well-being and happiness. At least, that's how it seemed. Imagine something as important as deciding whether to move house, or change job, or even which Strictly Come Dancing contestant you were ( Read more... )

I was teaching a class of students about finding equations of tangents and normals to curves today when one of the students asked me a question ( Read more... )

Sometimes I annoy somebody without meaning to. I don't always realise this ( Read more... )

In my laughable attempt to eat more healthily, I've discovered something called Bear Yo Yos. They're not actual yo-yos, but strips of fruity stuff coiled up into a roll ( Read more... )

Every Tuesday, I post a thing on Twitter and a thing on Facebook promoting the board gaming evening I am involved with. It's mainly to remind the people that might have chosen to follow those accounts that it's happening and that they might want to attend.

But rather than simply saying something as prosaic as 'Our next meeting will take place ( Read more... )