RichardHerring.com - Warming Up

8518/21437Hey look, there's some bad stuff going on in the world and humanity is hanging by a thread and the thread is swinging back and forth and humanity seems determined to hold a flame up to that thread just to see how strong the thread might be, even though it knows the thread isn't strong, but feels it would be weakness not to keep burning it anyway.BUT we live in an amazing time. We are so lucky to be here now as opposed to pretty much any other time or place in the history of the Univ...

8517/21436You'd think after 58 years of living almost exclusively in it that I would be used to the British weather, but I was astonished this afternoon to find myself caught up in a hail storm in late March. Where the Hell did that come from?Meteorologists claim the sky, but what do they know?Luckily I was in my car so was safe from this icy assault from unknown attackers. But I was on my way to pick up the kids from school. Would I be able to get from the car to the pick up point and back w...

8516/21435Epitaph for the human race - "At least we owned the libs."Absolutely insane that the only government in the world that is seemingly able to be honest about what's going on in America is Iran.My episode of The Great British Bake Off - Stand Up To Cancer is going out this coming Sunday at 7.40pm on Channel 4. We filmed it so long ago that I can't remember much about it now so I'll be watching to see who wins. I hope it is me. Don't bet against me. Also don't bet for me. Because bettin...

515/21434More studio RHLSTPs today, so into London quite early. I had time to eat a brunch at Pret a Manger. I then went to the loo. Why is it that toilets in places like this are positioned too close to the door. So that when you try to leave you have to step back and it's almost impossible to avoid wiping your leg against the horrible piss-coated porcelain. It's not even really any consolation that you're contacting with the piss of the kind of respectable people who can afford to eat at Pr...

8514/21433Ernie said to me today, "If you had a Willy coming out of your butt it would look like you had really big balls." I needed some clarification on that and he said it would be because your butt cheeks would look like your balls.I don't know where he gets this stuff from. He's 28 years old too.Catie says I mustn't laugh at things like this because that will encourage him. But no on laughed at me when I said similar stuff as a child and it didn't discourage me. Perhaps laughter is the o...

8513/21432Catie had been out with friends in London last night and I had gone to bed with a hurting shoulder and all my limbs seized up, so I didn't think there was much chance that either of us. would be doing Park Run this morning.But I woke up feeling almost pain free and with my legs moving enough for a light jog and Catie didn't seem too affected by the odd cocktail that she might have consumed. Also the girl from next door had been booked to babysit (though we could easily have used the...

8512/21431We got our daughter back!I picked Phoebe up from the railway station this afternoon and her and her classmates were glowing with the excitement of their week of adventure and being reunited with their families. Some kids were more demonstrative with their affection than others. Of course Phoebe was very cool about it all, but allowed me to give her a hug and kiss her on the head. She wasn't hugely forthcoming with what she'd been up to, but had clearly had a fun time and maybe even ...

8511/21430So the plan to all defect to Reform and pretend it's not the worst people from the same party? I made a vague attempt to tidy up my office space and garden this afternoon. I left the back door open as I went to put some broken crap in the bin at the front. The wind blew through the house and the front door slammed shut. I did not have my keys.Catie was in Luton for the next couple of hours and no one nearby had keys to my house. I did at least have my phone.

8510/21429I was dreaming that I'd just met Jason Mantzoukas at the Edinburgh Fringe and was just about to ask him to be on my podcast, when Ernie woke me up. So now Jason will probably never be on the podcast, thanks a lot. And he was really nice in the dream too.Ernie has made a huge leap forwards in the last few weeks in that he is now happy to go downstairs on his own and pour himself a bowl of cereal. It usually means another 20 to 30 minutes in bed. Today he couldn't open the new bottle ...