https://www.richardherring.com/warmingup/ en robs@notbbc.co.uk Wed, 13 May 2026 10:51:11 +0100 https://www.richardherring.com/warmingup/12/5/2026/index.html Tue, 12 May 2026 08:33:00 +0100 8564/21483I had woken up super early and my eye was really hurting. I don&#039;t know if I had punched myself in the night or some kind of evil fairy had got into the room and put fairy dirt in there, but I was tired and grumpy. I drove the kids to school and really had to concentrate through the pain and fatigue. As long as I could get them there in one piece, it was fine. If I crashed and died on the way home then so be it. I was treating this like a doomed mission up Everest or like I was Captain Oates. My kids survival was the trade off I made with fate. https://www.richardherring.com/warmingup/11/5/2026/index.html Mon, 11 May 2026 14:45:00 +0100 8563/21482Into hospital today to try and get to the bottom of my low white blood count. I had thought the fact that no one had been in touch with me after my bone marrow extraction was probably good news, but actually no one had had a look at the results. Once prompted they suddenly seemed keen to give me a ring. And then suddenly decided to see me in person. So I had to drive to fucking Hertford to see a haematologist. Who&#039;d want to specialise in blood? Better than specialising in balls, I guess.I was ready for bad news. It wasn&#039;t entirely good news. https://www.richardherring.com/warmingup/10/5/2026/index.html Sun, 10 May 2026 16:33:00 +0100 8563/21482I am a big fan of Windmill Hill Park in Hitchin. It&#039;s a steep incline that I sometimes see people running up, but which currently leaves me out of breath if I walk up too quickly. There&#039;s a rainbow bench at the top and you can look down at Hitchin&#039;s main thoroughfare Hermitage Road and then or up at the surrounding countryside. I can&#039;t say too much about it yet, but it may get a mention or two in the Pottery show I am doing and every time I am up there it makes me want to draw stuff. https://www.richardherring.com/warmingup/9/5/2026/index.html Sat, 09 May 2026 09:16:00 +0100 8562/21481First Park Run for five or six weeks and last time I did it, I quit at 3km and throughout March my times were around 34 minutes. I&#039;d run 1km on Wednesday and then had to walk home, so I wasn&#039;t particularly confident about finishing this morning, especially as it was already pretty hot and the sun was beating down on us. Stop beating sun. Be more gentle. We&#039;re already in awe of you. You don&#039;t have to be so needy.Probably upset that fewer people worship it these days. You&#039;ll have your revenge. https://www.richardherring.com/warmingup/8/5/2026/index.html Fri, 08 May 2026 11:37:00 +0100 8561/21480It&#039;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.&nbsp;<br/>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&#039;s flat, but I was easily able to dispose of it. It was right next to where the cum bin used to be. https://www.richardherring.com/warmingup/7/5/2026/index.html 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&#039;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. https://www.richardherring.com/warmingup/6/5/2026/index.html 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&#039;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&#039;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&#039;s a start.