RichardHerring.com - Warming Up

Tuesday 27th July 2010

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0100

This isn't a very good sign, but I was totally wiped out today. My throat was sore, I was tired and achy and I couldn't get a thing done (in the day time at least). Perhaps I overdid it yesterday by going to the gym and carting a big bucket of programmes up to Kings Cross for my gig and maybe I am not looking after my voice in a show that requires lots of shouty bits. Maybe gigging every night is taking its toll. Or maybe I am not quite over my illness of a fortnight ago. Or am weakened by my new diet.

Monday 26th July 2010

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0100

I am more than aware of all the stuff I need to get done in the next eight weeks. And for once I got up early and got on my bike and headed down to Hammersmith so I could do some work in a cafe and visit the gym. Hopefully I am getting myself back on track.
Another van pulled out in front of me as I was approaching a junction. He clearly hadn't seen me and there was time to avoid him, but I can't help wondering what is going on.

Sunday 25th July 2010

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0100

I slept in until 1.30pm and to be honest I could have easily gone back to sleep then, but thought I'd better get up and get something done with my day. I certainly needed the rest. It is, as it has been for a while now, all go.
But I took it relatively easy for the afternoon, writing my blog and my August newsletter (you can subscribe by putting your email address in the box on the left there). And then I had to drive to Croydon.

Saturday 24th July 2010

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0100

It's a bit like being back on tour again at the moment. I got back from Bristol at 1.30am and was in bed at 2.30, but was up five hours later to go to my last Collins and Herring 6Music show until September. I would then have a couple of hours at home before driving to Didcot for another preview. There is little to no rest for the wicked.
Except that I was looking forward to my two hour break as I was planning on putting up the hammock that my girlfriend had bought me for my birthday.

Friday 23rd July 2010

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0100

After a couple of slightly reticent audiences and me worrying that maybe the show wasn't as funny as I thought I had a real rip-roarer in Bristol tonight. It helped that there were nearly 300 people in the packed Tobacco Factory and they certainly were a lovely crowd and everything worked about as well as I could hope and it felt like a real show now. And this was despite the fact that we could only get a smallish image with the projector and the audience could only see what was on the slides if we turned almost all the lights out.

Thursday 22nd July 2010

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0100

I did the first bit of work on my new Radio 4 series "Richard Herring Objects" which will be running for four weeks in the autumn. Basically I am attempting to reclaim four items which, for whatever reasons, come with negative associations. Unsurprisingly one of these is the toothbrush moustache. So today I went to the BBC to talk over the phone to some moustache experts in Berlin, which was pleasantly surreal.

Wednesday 21st July 2010

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0100

Andrew College dared to enter my house of death this week to record our 120th (127th) podcast together. I don't think you will find many people who disagree that this works better when we are in the same room and actually interacting, but apologies to anyone who hoped that we might do the whole thing in two separate sections from now on.