(Read up on what #Richards2016 is all about here.)

I think this puts me over a quarter of the way through the year. Right? That’s a pretty great achievement, I must say. YOU CAN’T ARGUE WITH RESULTS LIKE THIS. So please stop arguing with me about my results.

Here’s what I’ve been up to.

March 26th: Make Up Your Own Holiday Day

My kind of day! I decided to just have my whole day and then at the end decide what day it was. So I had a normal day.

But at the end of it, I went round a friend’s for a poker night and beat everyone. Hell yeah baby! £100 in ma pocket. So I’m officially decreeing that March 26th is Beat All Your Friends At Poker Day. Hiyoooo!

March 27th: Neighbour Day

It was Easter, and I don’t really like talking to my irl neighbours. So I did a virtual version of this instead.

Yep, the concept of telephone neighbours what I stole from Russell Brand and Matt Morgan. Listen to them talking about it here:

(Around 27m in. It’s pretty funny).

But yeah my telephone neighbour didn’t get back to me. I hope they had a good easter anyway.

March 28th: Black Forest Cake Day

Got myself a whole massive black forest gateau as part of my easter haul.

Wait. Is it ‘gateau’ or ‘gateaux?’. Like what’s the difference?

I guess the ‘x’ one is probably the plural. Yeah that makes sense. So I got myself ONE GATEAU. I have not eaten it though. It’s currently sitting in my fridge.

March 29th: Lemon Chiffon Cake Day

Ugh, TWO cake days in a row. Not good. Also, I have no idea what a lemon chiffon cake is. Googling it just returns loads of cakes that look like this:

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So basically cakes with bloody great wholes in them. I couldn’t find one in Asda, so I just got a Lemon Sponge Cake instead because I think it’s literally the same thing.

March 30th: Manatee Appreciation Day

Speaks for itself really.

Like, who actively unappreciates  manatees? Nobody, that’s who. They’re the beautiful cows of sea. So the idea of having a day specifically to reaffirm our appreciation of them seems a bit redundant to me. But there we go, my love for manatees is now a matter of public record.

March 31st: Eiffel Tower Day

Got creative.

For those of you who don’t parlez français, that translates as “the eiffel tower, that’s wonderful!” or whatever.

I realise that the Eiffel Tower doesn’t actually look much like how I’ve drawn it there. And to the people of Paris I can only apologise. But I did it quite late and without any reference to hand. At the very least I think I captured the spirit of the tower, and didn’t the French like – invent – impressionism? So who are they to judge?

April 1st: International Tuba Day

Lemme just embed that real quick.

I think it’s pretty good! The original plan was to listen to all tuba and only tuba all day. But that gets pretty annoying very quickly. So I just dropped that idea. But I think I got my fair share of tuba.

And that’s it!

Coming up next week:

  • April 2nd: Tangible Karma Day
  • April 3rd: Chocolate Mousse Day
  • April 4th: World Rat Day
  • April 5th: Caramel Day
  • April 6th: Plan Your Epitaph Day
  • April 7th: World Health Day
  • April 8th: Draw A Picture Of A Bird Day

Nice! Well, this all look very doable, for once. CAN’T WAIT TO PLAN THAT EPITAPH LOL.

See ya next week.