What time do you get up? Very early, sometimes the crack of dawn, because of this seagull in the garden. My wife is a doctor and when a baby seagull fell into our garden three weeks ago she decided to try to look after it. We’re only just married, but we’re being trained for kids by an invalid baby seagull. Before that, Sunday mornings were pretty relaxed.
Breakfast? I buck the trend: I eat avocados on a Sunday morning and I’m a homeowner. I eat healthily, but we’re having a lot of barbecues now. Sometimes I skip breakfast, pop to the butcher and get sunburned while cooking meat.
If it’s raining? I’ll just head to the cinema: the Curzon in Soho or the Everyman in Maida Vale.
Something nobody knows about Sundays is… Well, my wife’s mum says you should never cut your toenails on a Sunday. Apparently it’s really bad luck. Cut your toenails and you’ll get bad juju.
Sunday extravagance? We recently got season tickets to Liverpool, so if they’re playing on a Sunday we’ll go up. My love for Liverpool is crazy. I love my wife, but she has never done anything that has made me hug a stranger. I like the togetherness of it.
Sunday night activity? They’re for staring at the TV. I’ll sit down for Stranger Things or The Handmaid’s Tale – or a really good documentary. I watched a great one last weekend about a Japanese disabled fight club called Doglegs.
Last thing you do before bed? I’m trying to get better at switching off. It takes a lot to stop myself scrambling around and reading the news. I read the other day that attacks on firemen are going up, and that 40% of train stations in the UK aren’t set up for disabled access. I wonder if learning all this is a good use of a Sunday night…
Russell Howard starts his world tour, Respite, with a UK arena run from 18 September to 5 October
