http://www.richarddows.co.uk Richard Dows' personal blog. Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:58:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Why is 'yesterday' such a widely used word, but we don't have 'yesterweek', 'yestermonth', 'yesteryear', 'yesterdecade' etc? Makes sense right? http://www.richarddows.co.uk/2008/06/27/yester/ The latest news in from yesterday is that the very progressive and ambitious project to build 5000 new "eco homes" in Manby has been scrapped. Can't say I'm very surprised actually. Manby isn't exactly the centre of things, and the transportation network is poor in that area. Not only that, but ... http://www.richarddows.co.uk/2008/06/26/manby-eco-town-scrapped/ Hay fever really sucks. I mean, it really gets you down when you get it bad. Sadly, I get it bad. Eyes get all itchy, snot dribbles from the nose at a rate that might dehydrate me, throat is all sore. What can I say, I hate 'hay'. What's odd though is ... http://www.richarddows.co.uk/2008/06/25/hay-fever-2/ ... and I can't open the website (one of them at least: mozilla.org) to get it, I get this: Http/1.1 Service Unavailable I'm sure they are being simply overwhelmed - FireFox is of course one of the best coded browsers available, and is rapidly eating into the IE share of the ... http://www.richarddows.co.uk/2008/06/17/firefox-3-released/ I am not a gardener. Far from it. I have this tree inside, it's an indoor plant I'm sure of it. But like I said I'm no expert. The parents came by a weekend or two back and over tea and conversation my mum suggested I put the tree outside for ... http://www.richarddows.co.uk/2008/06/16/i-do-not-have-green-fingers/ This is a rude joke, so you have been warned. A farmer walks into the bedroom with a sheep under his arm. He says, 'This is the pig that I have to f*** when you're not in the mood' His wife looks at him and says, 'To correct you, that's not a ... http://www.richarddows.co.uk/2008/06/12/rude-joke/ At work my working week was cut down by one day, by agreement with the boss. This was ostensibly because we're tightening belts at work, but really because I want to have an extra day off to work on my own work. So now, Thursdays are now my Fridays. That Thursday ... http://www.richarddows.co.uk/2008/06/11/thursdays-are-now-fridays/ The British public have spoken, or at least responded to a poll. We like polls. We seem to think that polls mean everything and when they go down and stay down that that's it. Sadly for us, British politicians tend to ignore polls. Well, Gordon does. Oh, I mean, Prime Minister, ... http://www.richarddows.co.uk/2008/06/09/gordon-who/ Just for those of you who haven't seen this travesty of justice. I say that, but it's beyond a travesty since the man in question is -IN- prison and this is what he receives, from the Daily Mail: Three meals a day, chosen by <prisoner&rt; from an extensive menu, are delivered ... http://www.richarddows.co.uk/2008/06/02/this-is-how-britain-treats-murderers/ Do you occasionally think that you are the only one that thinks a certain way? Are you the odd one out every so often? Do you talk to yourself (then again, maybe that's the only intelligent conversation you get)? Then you might want to consider this: You loony! http://www.richarddows.co.uk/2008/06/02/are-you-mentally-unbalanced/