RichardHerring.com - Warming Up

Saturday 14th March 2026

Sat, 14 Mar 2026 17:05:00 +0000

8506/21425Apologies to Vaun Earl Norman, my biggest celebrity fan, who I inexplicably called Vaun Earl Thomas in my blog a couple of days ago. I don't know if that was some kind of autocorrect or if I just lost my mind as I very much know his name (I was very tired and rushing to catch up on blogs). It is an unforgivable mistake and I accept the cancellation that comes with this error and will stop doing all blogging immediately.After this one.
Ernie was at a birthday party this lunchtime which meant I got to look after Phoebe solo.

Friday 13th March 2026

Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:19:00 +0000

8505/21424Today I spent most of my time struggling to think of anything to write about for yesterday's blog. I think tomorrow I shall probably be doing the same about today. In fact I know I will, because it's tomorrow now and I can't think of anything to write about.Both days have been packed full of stuff - I am exhausted from parenting, exercising, trying to think of funny things and largely failing and rehearsing for the play.

Thursday 12th March 2026

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 09:36:00 +0000

8504/21423Newsround may look like it is just thrown together by an incompetent idiot who has no idea what he is going to say next and more worryingly has no idea what his ventriloquist dummy is going to say next. I have nothing to add to that sentence. Felt like there was a but coming when I started.Wait.... BUT, as with its precursor Twitch of Fun (will it ever return so we can produce that 100th episode?) I sometimes spend much too much time searching for the right news story. Time I could be using for actual work.

Wednesday 11th March 2026

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 11:52:00 +0000

8503/21422We went to a little music concert at the kids' school today, in which Ernie would be giving his Fur Elise on the piano. These kinds of things always fill you with a bit of dread, because usually as much as it's lovely to see your own kid perform (even if it sounds like they're torturing a cat), you have less skin in the game (literally) when it comes to other people's kids being bad on musical instruments.Phoebe had to come and watch too and she doesn't even have any feelings of affection for Ernie and she was probably more cynical than me.

Tuesday 10th March 2026

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 13:25:00 +0000

8502/21421I know a lot of you have been fretting about my broken back bumper and whether it would mean my car would fail it's MOT. What do you mean you don't remember and you've got problems of your own? Why am I even writing this blog?I took the car in for its MOT and didn't mention the bumper (hoping they wouldn't notice) and amazingly the car passed without any problems at all. The bumper was not broken enough to fail its MOT. I don't have to pay �£400 to fix it. I can drive around in my rubbish, but road-worthy, broken car.

Monday 9th March 2026

Mon, 09 Mar 2026 12:44:00 +0000

8501/21420Congratulations to Mojtaba Khamenei on getting to the end of today and still being the Supreme Leader of Iran. I thought it might be a title that he held for a few hours at best, but he's hung on for much longer than I would have guessed.

Sunday 8th March 2026

Sun, 08 Mar 2026 10:38:00 +0000

8500/21419Happy International Women's Day. If you have any questions about this, the answer is November 19th.Hard to believe that it's six years since I hung up my November 19th hat. We were careering towards lock-down and with great foresight I set up Twitch in order to be able to livestream the final one, which proved quite useful in the coming months.Ironically I would probably have been in quite a good position to do the March 8th marathon the next year as I'd likely still have been in bed recovering from surgery.