https://richardherring.com/warmingup/ en robs@notbbc.co.uk Sun, 08 Nov 2026 19:05:17 +0000 https://richardherring.com/warmingup/7/11/2026/index.html Sat, 07 Nov 2026 08:24:00 +0000 9735/21654My son is 9 and thus our senses of humour are pretty much at exactly the same level now and I enjoy nothing more than laughing with my boy. I would enjoy laughing with my daughter as much, but she doesn't think I am funny and so I really have to catch her unawares to make her laugh. Do I push the boat out and try and go for the unattainable but more satisfying audience or accept that she's right and that my stuff isn't for anyone over the mental age of 10 and just stick to laughing with Ernie? https://richardherring.com/warmingup/6/11/2026/index.html Fri, 06 Nov 2026 07:12:00 +0000 9734/21653Catie was taking Ernie to school in the car. Unusually I got a call from her phone about five minutes after they'd left. I thought maybe Ernie had left his violin behind or I had some chore to fulfil."Hello" I offered.Then Ernie said "Ha ha! This is a prank call," laughed and hung up.I wish more prank calls would be up front about what they are. I had certainly been pranked good and proper. I felt like a fool.Ernie rang back a few minutes later and I thought it would be another prank call. Once bitten, twice shy. https://richardherring.com/warmingup/5/11/2026/index.html Thu, 05 Nov 2026 06:55:00 +0000 9733/21652My eldest seems to have made a realisation about Christmas. I won't say what that realisation in case anyone else has yet to make it. Last year she had her suspicions, but this year when she'd completed her list and I told her who I would send it to I was greeted by a sarcastic sneer. Fair enough. She is 28 years old.She didn't seem too dispirited. Or dispirited at all. Though I know she will go along with it all for the sake of her brother (until he gets annoying - so about five minutes) And I was mainly pleased that she knew. https://richardherring.com/warmingup/4/11/2026/index.html Wed, 04 Nov 2026 12:51:00 +0000 9732/21651Right and left wing politicians in UK and US should get together and agree which colour is left wing and which colour is right wing. This is like salt and vinegar crisps all over again.(And yes, Green Party members, I know you see yourselves as the left wing party now, but then the joke doesn't work, but thanks for your interest. And yes clever political commentators I know the Tories and Labour and Democrats and Republicans are all the same thing as each other, but I refer you to the comment I made a few seconds ago. https://richardherring.com/warmingup/3/11/2026/index.html Tue, 03 Nov 2026 11:33:00 +0000 9733/21652In an alternate Universe my TV show and book "Everything Happens For No Reason" about an average woman finding out how she is faring in a universe of infinite possibilities, would be a runaway success and I would be a rightful billionaire. [Paid Substack subscribers can read my first chapter here (and the various script versions are also available if you search for them and I think also the taster tape of the sitcom - you should really become a paid subscriber. You get so many cool things! Also how rude to read my diary and not even pay for it! https://richardherring.com/warmingup/2/11/2026/index.html Mon, 02 Nov 2026 09:29:00 +0000 9732/21651Who Shots on bluesky tweeted a picture from old, proper Doctor Who of Sarah Jane talking to a big, green, one-eyed, penis-headed alien and not for the first time I had a Proustian-style flashback to the 1970s in Loughborough and the Weetabix Dr Who diorama packets. Would Proust be as famous if his jolts to the past were caused by genderless alien who somehow looks like all human genitalia all at once? https://richardherring.com/warmingup/1/11/2026/index.html Sun, 01 Nov 2026 11:21:00 +0000 9731/21650Legotowergate continues to rumble on. Ernie wrote about his "world record" for his homework and we stuck my forged certificate into his course work. Will his duplicity and my lies be rumbled by the teacher. Where will this end? The fear of scandal did not stop us though, as Ernie was a bit upset that his certificate was now Pritt-sticked (or is it Pritt-stuck? Not sure. It's maybe called a stick because it's a stick of glue, not because you stick things with it, so I may have for it right first time.