Helen McCookerybook

Come on- everybody knows it but nobody says- Rap music is all about Shouting at Mummy. All those diamonds, all that bling, the twitchy danc...

I took a huge pile of 12" singles in to the University of the West for Jim, who collects oddball vinyl. He wasn't there, and the ot...

Looks like I may be going away after all, on a tide of requests... The Araldite is drying on the broken chair leg and the broken lamp. I c...

The cat has a hyperactive thyroid, the car's being serviced two bus journeys away and will probably come back with a thumbs-down of garg...

Wow- I've just seen one of my best ever ex-students on the X-Factor, being slated by Simon Cowell. Graziella's from Tottenham and s...

I picked Martin up at Luton: he was full of cold and we went and did a lightning-speed sound check. Paul Davey came along to play clarinet ...

Wednesday: Three Kings, Clerkenwell Friday: The Stables, Wavendon 7th November: The Donkey, Leicester See wot I mean? Wednesday was lov...

My littleoldlady cat get so excited when I wake up (breakfast, not me) that she almost barks. Desperado Housewives tonight- and believe me...

Here is Lawrence's photo of me playing at Voices on Saturday. Thanks for sending it, Ingrid! Music is keeping me sane at the moment, t...

Well, a man came to change the gas meter today. 'You have a gas leak', he said. 'I may have to turn off the gas supply to the ho...

Travelling back from Docklands on the Docklands Light Railway, I noticed how McDonalds' red and yellow 'M' sprouts like a triump...

Martin and Andrew Bailey (who runs the guitar and songwriter weekends for Martin) have got together and they are going to start producing g...

Can I put all the plastic dinosaurs in the dishwasher? They are very dusty.

I'd meant to write up The Perseverance gig yesterday but instead spent almost the whole day moving stuff down from the loft (including b...