Helen McCookerybook

It has become all too exciting of late to be an employee of the University of the East, what with the pronouncements of our grizzled colleag...

The night I'd been looking forward to for weeks didn't disappoint! I met Caroline at the caff in the Tate Modern and she yanked me i...

While racing through a three-hour knitting marathon last night, I tuned in to Jazz 625 and watched the Dave Brubeck Quartet, all suits and s...

Jamie from the Irrepressibles came in to talk to the songwriting students at the University of the West yesterday. I found it fascinating; I...

That's another thing. There is a very interesting academic article about Cher that links her cosmetic surgery to her vocoder-treated vo...

I knew a student at Art College, who gave themselves suspected food poisoning after a meal of organic mince made into bolognaise sauce. The ...

Well, I looked up those antibiotics on the web the other day and it said amongst the side-effects 'depression and thoughts of suicide...

8.35 Casualty 9.25 Liver at the Apollo

So I'm not allowed to be out in the sun with these tablets either... So here's a little review of the gig at the perfect little Eyre...

Here to Hear: The Chefs, Helen and the Horns, & Jacques Brel

I am taking tablets that have the side effect of plunging me into a deep depression between one and three p.m. (seriously!) So yesterday, wh...

The house is still for sale and people have started coming out of hibernation like sleepy squirrels to look around it, leaving their manners...

For some unfathomable reason I woke this morning thinking about Jack Vettriano's paintings. Is a great artist one who develops and progr...

Daleks look like kitchen bins designed by Sir Terence Conran; would they cut the mustard as baddies with today's young people if their p...

I have put a new track on Myspace, the Apple Tre e song which is one of the tracks from Hamilton Square . Mark Broad, who runs Second Sunday...