Helen McCookerybook

I have 52 three thousand word essays to mark. See you in a bit.

Following last week's Friday night out, I decided that Friday-night-outs are a Good Idea, and headed down to Scaledown. I was astonishe...

Tomorrow I will be taking delivery of 300 lyrics books. I can not imagine how bulky they will be; thank you Maggie for offering to store the...

Thank you to Jason Thompson for reminding me about the genius of Playaway. I was drawing in my poor sad flat for one in Brighton one afterno...

Shanne asked me if I'd like to go to the unveiling of The Roxy's Blue Plaque (does that sound like a mouthwash?) in Neal Street yest...

My eyes may glaze over at inappropriate moments and I might walk out into moving traffic. Is this some sort of mental health issue? I have ...

Many thanks to Dexter Bentley for playing this track on his Resonance show yesterday. After 25 years in the suburban wilderness, I started w...

Maybe it was being brought up in Wylam, birthplace of George Stephenson (inventor of The Rocket), a tiny village with two stations (North ...

I fell half asleep on the train back from York. It would have been better to fall whole asleep, or not at all. I realised that I needed mil...

I'm so glad I peeled my lazy butt off the sofa last night. I was going to stay in and be disappointed by the TV schedule again, but inst...