Helen McCookerybook

I was in Edinburgh and I needed a new battery for my watch for the songwriting workshop I was to be doing. You can't hoick your iPhone o...

It's been a relaxing afternoon after working today; Whitley Bay has some fab charity shops and the sun is shining. Yesterday I said a s...

I've been on an awful lot of trains over the past couple of days, and been doing an awful lot of reading. Interesting academic reading ...

I have been reading about Stelios wanting to open an easySupermarket opposite East Croydon Station. A few years ago one of the Universities...

The snails are out, dancing, singing. It's cold and damp; rain alternately drifts and thrashes and the rats, birds and squirrels are hu...

Two hours of External Examining done this morning; time for a spot of housework to clear the channels and then a bit more reading and listen...

Free download of my own fave track. The album features Martin Stephenson on guitar and ukulele, Jim Hornsby on Dobro (featured here) and gu...

I can't believe it, but I actually finished the marking yesterday evening. I think this may be connected to the huge thunderstorm that h...

Fifty 3000-worders. Yessiree!

The Anarchy Skiffle album is now on Bandcamp to listen to and/or download. Features Helen McCookerybook, Martin G Stephenson Jim Hornsby ...

We were walking through Hoxton, through a tide of young bearded men, many with bikes. We fantasised about an app they have on their laptops...

I tried to photograph the black swan in Reading but it didn't want to know: it turned its back on me and even asking its white pals to s...

John drums for El Cid, the band Phoebe Stephenson plays in.

Well we haven't finished the tour yet; is this tempting fate? But Birmingham has to take the biscuit for a weird experience. We were b...

Home top wash clothes; kitchen floor is sticky with RuPaul cake icing after Offsprog One's latest exercise. Reality hits with a bang as ...