Helen McCookerybook

 

Sometimes it's worth making a journey somewhere to see an exhibition that is unique. It feels like all the more of a gamble when the gal...

Up in the loft, I have a box of postcards that were part of a constant postcard-exchange before the internet elbowed other forms of communic...

It takes a big incentive to go out anywhere these days- not my own things, of course, but other bands.... However, this was an irresistible ...

These photographs were taken by Antoine, the brother of Nico's companion Philippe. Antoine had a secret photographic technique that mad...

It's only fairly recently that I have stopped making home made wall calendars. I started this in my bedsit in Willesden when I was 23 an...

This afternoon, I bit the bullet and went to see the film The Velvet Underground at the ICA ,  because it's going to disappear, just lik...

Surrealism is following me around today like a lost puppy. The gas engineer phoned while I was out shopping and said I'd left a message ...

Grounded by my malaise (pretentious, moi?) I'm cooking and thinking. I had a hankering for leek and potato soup to soothe my throat, and...

Now, I am building my expertise as a watcher of daytime cookery shows. 'Amazing recipes!' they exclaim, before whizzing through a ch...

 

I've picked up a virus (I hope not Corona) probably from being back at work. I'm hallucinating detectives from the wall-to-wall read...

I have always been a long-sleeved checked shirt sortuva person. In the 1980s I bought lots of my shirts from Flip, but I also bought lots of...

Yesterday, I was walking behind a tall schoolboy and he suddenly sneezed. I walked through a schoolboy's sneeze. Bring back lockdown!

We have our first two ever gigs coming up at the end of November, and it seems sensible to start learning the twelve songs in our repertoire...