https://www.richardherring.com/warmingup/ en robs@notbbc.co.uk Sat, 17 Oct 2026 14:33:54 +0100 https://www.richardherring.com/warmingup/15/10/2026/index.html Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:57:00 +0100 8714/21633More thoughts on Twitter�&amp;euro;s part in my downfall, after my initial decision to stop using it.Good on the British Comedy Guide for picking up on the sea change in podcasting. Sad to see Pappys and All Killa go, though understand the reasoning I&#039;ve also noticed a few great stand ups posting about low ticket sales on their tours, which might be part of the same basic trend. The bigger name comics have always commanded the audiences, but perhaps it&#039;s skewing even further that way now. https://www.richardherring.com/warmingup/14/10/2026/index.html Wed, 14 Oct 2026 14:41:00 +0100 8713/21632Ernie had the day off school today. The lurgy hanging over the house had hit him (and me). It&#039;s not too bad, just making us all a bit snotty and tired. I had to go into town for a meeting and it seemed that everyone on the train was struggling too. Lurgy and fruit flies are the two plagues hitting our house and the UK right now. Oh, and soon, the actual plague. https://www.richardherring.com/warmingup/13/10/2026/index.html Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:13:00 +0100 8712/21631Threads continues to be a gobsmacking pool of stupidity. Not only does everyone on there seem convinced the world is flat and that we&#039;ve discovered Noah&#039;s Ark, but there&#039;s a lot of predictions about the imminent Rapture too.Someone even had a very convincing video about the good being sucked off to Heaven (been there) and the rest of us staying on a planet with no religious people on it. Wait, is this meant to scare us or have us crossing our fingers that it&#039;s real?Imagine a world without anyone who believes in God... it&#039;s easy if you try. https://www.richardherring.com/warmingup/12/10/2026/index.html Mon, 12 Oct 2026 10:16:00 +0100 8711/21630I hadn&#039;t touched clay since last November until this weekend. Ernie had been using air-dry clay at school and wanted to do more at home, so I bought a bag online and we had a play I showed them how to make a pinch pot and my efforts were as rough as fuck. Phoebe then made a really lovely beaker to keep pencils in, which was far better than mine.As with everything I do, I am not the best at it even in my own house. https://www.richardherring.com/warmingup/11/10/2026/index.html Sun, 11 Oct 2026 14:36:00 +0100 8710/21629The final of Celebrity Pottery Throwdown today. If you haven&#039;t yet seen it then watch it before you read this blog.&nbsp;<br/>It was rather lovely watching this again - not for the pottery or the competition but to be reminded of how intensely emotional things got amongst the potters and how Fatiha and me really connected.I had not met Fatiha before this, though had seen her on TV and thought she was very funny but might be a bit intimidating or that her faith and my atheism might put us at odds. Of course I couldn&#039;t have been more wrong. https://www.richardherring.com/warmingup/10/10/2026/index.html Sat, 10 Oct 2026 11:55:00 +0100 8709/21628The oddest thing about being 59 (apart from it being impossible that you&#039;re 59) is the awareness that you might die any second OR you might live another 30 or 40 years. It makes it very difficult to plan anything.Should I be winding stuff down now and getting my affairs in order? Or do I have to keep this thing running until 2067? Be nice to get some indication at least.I guess two cancers is a little bit of a clue as to which way it&#039;s going. https://www.richardherring.com/warmingup/9/10/2026/index.html Fri, 09 Oct 2026 18:33:00 +0100 8708/21627I don&#039;t feel so bad for stealing a bag from Sainsburys now. Yesterday I popped in and bought a few things. Yes I stole another bag, what of it? One of the things was a four pack of tinned tomatoes. I checked out on the self-service machines, but when I put the tomatoes down on the weighing bit it wouldn&#039;t let me carry on as it wanted the correct item in the bagging area. But I had put the correct item in. You stupid idiot machine.