{"id":529,"date":"2016-03-19T11:14:16","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T11:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookywook.co.uk\/blog\/?p=529"},"modified":"2016-03-19T11:14:16","modified_gmt":"2016-03-19T11:14:16","slug":"richards-2016-week-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cookywook.co.uk\/blog\/richards-2016-week-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard&#8217;s 2016: Week 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(Read up on what #Richards2016 is all\u00a0about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DKzHkQvAOT\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Week 11! Who&#8217;d have thought we&#8217;d make it this far?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It&#8217;s certainly starting to take a toll though. I noticed the other day that my Twitter numbers were falling. Not good. And it wasn&#8217;t just the follow-for-a-day-then-unfollow Twitter scumbags\u00a0you get. It&#8217;s like actual followers I know and like. I guess some people find me constantly spamming what I&#8217;m up to all day every day kinda annoying? Maybe I should stick to obvious jokes and tired memes, since that&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thepoke\">what people like<\/a>. Or <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheLadBible\">sexism<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sigh. But I&#8217;m not giving up. In the words of my Mean Girls hero, Kevin G, &#8220;<em>you should never allow those who fail to appreciate what you&#8217;re trying to\u00a0achieve\u00a0to prevent you from continuing to do\u00a0so&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/media.giphy.com\/media\/nl0Kfz91vVmIU\/giphy.gif?resize=500%2C281&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Onto the week then.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">March 12: Plant a Flower Day<\/h3>\n<p>Not a problem. I have naturally green fingers. And also, I&#8217;m good at gardening haw haw haw!<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Happy Plant a Flower Day! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/richards2016?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#richards2016<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8pSnQzjLQ5\">pic.twitter.com\/8pSnQzjLQ5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Richard Cook (@cookywook) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cookywook\/status\/708772445637976064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 12, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It me. In .gif form. Planting a hyacinth bulb. (FUN FACT: hyacinths were named by some dude randomly picking letters out of a Scrabble bag).<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t ask why I&#8217;m doing it at like 10pm at night. I just am ok.<\/p>\n<h3>March 13th: Ken Day<\/h3>\n<p>I&#8217;m all about reusable content. So I recycled an old sketch about Ken I&#8217;d written for a thing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cookywook.co.uk\/blog\/hipster-ken\">READ IT HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>March 14th: International Ask a Question Day<\/h3>\n<p>Wow, what a day this was.<\/p>\n<p>I started small, simply sending a question out to all my Twitter followers:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What\u2019s the biggest thing you\u2019ve ever eaten? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/askaquestionday?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#askaquestionday<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/richards2016?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#richards2016<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Richard Cook (@cookywook) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cookywook\/status\/709317034526547968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 14, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>No responses. Dang. To be fair, the day is just &#8216;ask a question&#8217; so I didn&#8217;t really need a response. But Twitter is all about conversations innit. I wanted more.<\/p>\n<p>So I flipped it on its head and asked people to ask\u00a0<em>me<\/em> questions:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ask me anything, i guess?<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/l68ztE95pk\">https:\/\/t.co\/l68ztE95pk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Richard Cook (@cookywook) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cookywook\/status\/709344375940235264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 14, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I answered some questions there, which was kinda fun I suppose.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cookywook.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-19-at-10.58.23.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-530\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-530\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cookywook.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-19-at-10.58.23.png?resize=616%2C654\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-03-19 at 10.58.23\" width=\"616\" height=\"654\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cookywook.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-19-at-10.58.23.png?w=1166&amp;ssl=1 1166w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cookywook.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-19-at-10.58.23.png?resize=283%2C300&amp;ssl=1 283w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cookywook.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-19-at-10.58.23.png?resize=768%2C815&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cookywook.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-19-at-10.58.23.png?resize=964%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 964w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But THEN I noticed that good ol&#8217; Boris Johnson was doing an #AskBoris Q&amp;A session on Twitter. Now, I have a thing where every time this happens I ask him a very simple question.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cookywook.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-19-at-10.59.38.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-531\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-531\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cookywook.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-19-at-10.59.38.png?resize=616%2C309\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-03-19 at 10.59.38\" width=\"616\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cookywook.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-19-at-10.59.38.png?w=1174&amp;ssl=1 1174w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cookywook.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-19-at-10.59.38.png?resize=300%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cookywook.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-19-at-10.59.38.png?resize=768%2C385&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cookywook.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-19-at-10.59.38.png?resize=1024%2C513&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Usually he just ignores it (FOR SOME REASON), but this time I was in luck.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">i once ate a camel when I had the hump <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/askboris?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#askboris<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cookywook?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@cookywook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan (@MayorofLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MayorofLondon\/status\/709365457556545536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 14, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, I went nuts. I got lots of\u00a0RTs and all those\u00a0lovely nice warm social media feelings. Ahh. I also got questions from people replying to Boris, but leaving me in on the mentions. That was fun.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cookywook.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/CdguBF8WIAEFfhW.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-532\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-532\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cookywook.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/CdguBF8WIAEFfhW.jpg?resize=455%2C417\" alt=\"CdguBF8WIAEFfhW\" width=\"455\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cookywook.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/CdguBF8WIAEFfhW.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cookywook.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/CdguBF8WIAEFfhW.jpg?resize=300%2C275&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cookywook.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/CdguBF8WIAEFfhW.jpg?resize=768%2C703&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sorry I couldn&#8217;t help,\u00a0<strong>Muslim Patrol UK!<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>March 15th: Buzzards Day<\/h3>\n<p>Not many buzzards in Cambridge. So I just listened to my friend David&#8217;s band <a href=\"http:\/\/buzzardking.bandcamp.com\/album\/ride-the-nadir\">Buzzard King<\/a>. They do a good cover of Ain&#8217;t No Grave that I recommend!<\/p>\n<h3>March 16th: Freedom of Information<\/h3>\n<p>It turns out basically anyone can submit an FOI request. I thought they&#8217;d at least ask you why you want the information you&#8217;re requesting, but nope! So you can literally request whatever you want from anyone in the public sector.<\/p>\n<p>Except it can&#8217;t be <em>too<\/em> dumb or else they&#8217;ll just reject it. Also, it turns out that a lot of public sector stuff is contracted out to private companies. Like, you couldn&#8217;t ask the council about trains and stuff, because that&#8217;s all Train Operating Company info. Boo!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I went with a dumb question about libraries and books.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">celebrating Freedom of Information Day!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/richards2016?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#richards2016<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9RUl2APpDA\">pic.twitter.com\/9RUl2APpDA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Richard Cook (@cookywook) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cookywook\/status\/710044275870932992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 16, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve received my request now and I await their response. Could take like three weeks though \ud83d\ude41 STAY TUNED FOLKS<\/p>\n<h3>March 17th: Saint Patrick&#8217;s Day<\/h3>\n<p>Just did all the obvious quasi-racist St. Patrick&#8217;s stuff.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Happy Saint Patrick&#39;s Day <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/richards2016?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#richards2016<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IJjgEEdCoK\">https:\/\/t.co\/IJjgEEdCoK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Richard Cook (@cookywook) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cookywook\/status\/710435868885041152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 17, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I also learnt that I have a super low tolerance for people who call it &#8220;St Patty&#8217;s&#8221;. Like, I understand the logic, but it&#8217;s just wrong. Further reading <a href=\"http:\/\/paddynotpatty.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>March 18th: Awkward Moments Day<\/h3>\n<p>With me, every moment is an awkward moment!<\/p>\n<p>But seriously, I have to pick one I guess. So I&#8217;ll just go with trolling a Vice writer on Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joelgolby?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@joelgolby<\/a> not much what\u2019s up with you<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Richard Cook (@cookywook) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cookywook\/status\/710822412351311872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 18, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>BEST PART: I wasn&#8217;t even the first person to make that joke. OH INTERNET.<\/p>\n<p>ANYWAY THAT&#8217;S THAT.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Coming up:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>March 19th: Poultry Day<\/li>\n<li>March 20th: Snowman Burning Day<\/li>\n<li>March 21st: Single Parent\u2019s Day<\/li>\n<li>March 22nd: Goof Off Day<\/li>\n<li>March 23rd: Melba Toast Day<\/li>\n<li>March 24th: Tuberculosis Day<\/li>\n<li>March 25th: Tolkien Reading Day<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A mixed bag there. Let&#8217;s see how it goes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>p.s.<\/strong> Remember those shoes I ordered and were too small and I had to get replaced? Well, guess which replacements still haven&#8217;t shown up? HAHAHA YES THOSE ONES.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Read up on what #Richards2016 is all\u00a0about\u00a0here.) Week 11! Who&#8217;d have thought we&#8217;d make it this far? It&#8217;s certainly starting to take a toll though. I noticed the other day that my Twitter numbers were falling. Not good. 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