RichardHerring.com - Warming Up

Friday 8th May 2026

Fri, 08 May 2026 11:37:00 +0100

8561/21480It's the eight year anniversary of the day I found a toilet especially for me.I seem to have got more attractive since I was 50. But that might just have been a bad day.
After dropping the kids off at school, I took Wolfie for her morning walk (honestly, I do everything in this family: the dishwasher, the bins... everything). She did a nice solid poop on a patch of ground outside someone's flat, but I was easily able to dispose of it. It was right next to where the cum bin used to be.

Thursday 7th May 2026

Thu, 07 May 2026 15:24:00 +0100

8560/21479A mildly complex school pick up today. Ernie was in clubs til 4.30pm but Phoebe was playing cricket. My understanding from the email I'd seen was that they were playing away at a school about 5 minutes away, but the match would end at 4.30pm. As it usually takes ten minutes or so to get Ernie to the car, this looked like a tricky mission. I could have opted to wait at the school for Phoebe to come back in the bus, but thought that might be trickier.But I rushed him away from his friends, got him in the car and put the postcode in my sat nav.

Wednesday 6th May 2026

Wed, 06 May 2026 11:54:00 +0100

8559/21478Due to Easter and being in a play and being pretty knackered, I basically did no exercise in April. Also in the play I wore my own suit jacket for one scene and did a gag where I couldn't do up the button (by quite some distance), so I am keen to get back into getting mildly fit again. I went for a run before lunch and wasn't expecting to get far, but it felt pretty good to begin with. Maybe I could do 5k. Then I got to 1k and had to stop running and walk home. But it's a start.

Tuesday 5th May 2026

Tue, 05 May 2026 11:25:00 +0100

8558/21477Tonight we watched last week's SNL UK with Phoebe. She's 11 and I don't know whether that makes us bad parents, but I was listening to Derek and Clive tapes from about the age of 12 (certainly by the time I was 14).And it was stuff like this that set me on the way to be the man I am today.....Oh God. We've made a terrible mistake.I don't know if my parents knew what I was listening to - I am pretty sure I bought the Derek and Clive cassettes myself from WH Smith (probably why they've had to shut the place down).

Monday 4th May 2026

Mon, 04 May 2026 11:25:00 +0100

8557/21476The electronic signs on the motorway occasionally read "Don't Drive Tired". Thanks for the advice pixelated sign and it's very easy for you to make that kind of judgement. But are you prepared to look after my kids for a week so I can get some sleep? Didn't think so. You're there when it comes to criticising me for sleepily weaving all over the road, but not so keen to help out when needed. Or if I am gigging for �£150 in Yorkshire, will you pay the �£160 bill for the hotel room? Why have you gone so quiet sign?

Sunday 3rd May 2026

Sun, 03 May 2026 10:23:00 +0100

8556/21475I took Ernie up the Gorge first thing as he wanted to go to the shop that sold fossils. Catie had asked him to count how many different species of flower he saw on the walk and he diligently took on this task. Getting to 200 by the time we got to Gough's cave. It's fun taking time out to look at stuff you wouldn't usually look at. he was delighted to see this snail happily sitting in the middle of a flower.In turn I pointed out all the places that had changed since I lived here between 40 and 50 years ago.

Saturday 2nd May 2026

Sat, 02 May 2026 21:44:00 +0100

8555/21474Off to Cheddar today to see the folks. I was anticipating a difficult Bank Holiday Weekend drive but it was pimpsy. I looked up at the sky as I drove and wondered how anyone could think the Earth was flat. You can see that the the sky forms a dome above us. Now flat earthers might say that yes, that's right, but the dome of the sky hangs over the plate that is the Earth. If that was the case though, the edge of the dome would have to be at the edge of the flat planet.