RichardHerring.com - Warming Up

Monday 6th September 2010

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0100

I was at the BBC at 9.30 this morning to do some pre records for Richard Herring's Objective. The LE department was in the process of moving into new offices in Western House, three floors below the studios from which our 6Music show is broadcast. It was quite a day to be doing the first show in my series, with the entire Light Entertainment staff trying to get to grips with their new surroundings and finding out which box the pens were in.

Sunday 5th September 2010

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0100

How can the last six days have flown by so fast when the previous six dragged for an eternity? Explain that Einstein. Oh you can't, because for all your claims to have mastered time, time defeated you didn't it? Yeah that shut you up, brainiac. Cheg on Einstein, you am a twart!
It's now eight weeks since I had a drink as well, which is equally as crazy. Even watching Madmen tonight didn't make me want to go back. In fact, I think maybe watching Madmen was one of the things that made me stop.

Saturday 4th September 2010

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0100

It seemed like a long time since the last Collins and Herring 6Music show, but we slipped back into it quite nicely - my favourite bit being the slight implication that Andrew Collins made knob cheese in Northampton. I am 43 years old.
Afterwards I met up with my girlfriend to have an afternoon mooching around London. We had no particular plans, but ended up being tourists in our home town and headed to Bloomsbury to visit museums. We took a punt on the Cartoon Museum without knowing too much about it.

Friday 3rd September 2010

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0100

Tonight, my BT Broadband (hopefully) fixed thanks to the advice from @btcare and others to change my wireless channel (yeah, we'll see) I had the night off and so I decided to set up the new Xbox 360 I had foolishly bought (as if I had time for such a thing) before Edinburgh, but not yet played.
I was pretty blown away just by the set up menu, which included a video advertising their online options, which was terrifically exciting.

Thursday 2nd September 2010

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0100

It took me a little while for my brain to shift from Edinburgh mode to London writing mode, but finally starting to get somewhere with the first Radio 4 script, though spent most of the day trying to think of a new title as I think the one I had "Richard Herring Objects" will get annoying pretty quickly. It's also a pun that maybe works written down but not said out loud and which might be more trouble than it's worth.

Wednesday 1st September 2010

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0100

I woke up in my own bed for the first time since late July and aside from a slight feeling of confusion and displacement it was like I had never been away. Scientists should investigate this. How can something seem to last forever and then within hours appear not to have existed at all. The explanation of infinity might be hidden within this phenomenon. Government funding required.
I was planning on taking the day off, but had so many little jobs to do that there was no time to relax.

Tuesday 31st August 2010

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0100

I woke up at 9 and had some more Cheerios and packed up the last of my stuff before running the couple of miles down the hill to my car, which thankfully was still there and still working fine. And I could still remember how to drive. I managed to park only about 30 yards away from my front door and then after a shower, packed up my car. I was keen to get going and looking forward to being home, even though it seemed like an alien and unfamiliar place that I had visited once in a dream many years ago.