Definitely spring is in the air. Tearing myself away from seed catalogues to let you know (or remind you) of more musical related activities.
This weekend Snake and I are holding a songwriting workshop in Pickering. Looking forward to that.
Next week Chris While, Julie Mathews and myself are putting together our vocal workshops. You can find details for all of them on the Rejoice the Voice page of Chris and Julie's site. We've got some great songs planned. Do please check it out.
Then next weekend I meet up with the boys for two favourite gigs, The Shed and The Ropery. See my Gigs page.
I shall now check in the bathroom for a file to scrape the good Essex soil from 'neath my nails. Water the collards, on with the ballgown and away we go!

Hello Everybody

It's Wednesday morning. We're in East Essex, we should be on the road heading south and west for a run of 3 gigs; Bristol tonight, Bournemouth tomorrow and Brighton on Friday. We're not going to make them. It's 3 degrees below, snowing now with more forecast on the M25 - our route.

If you should read this today and you were planning on coming to any of those gigs, I can't tell you how fed up I am right now. Very big apologies from me and I hope that I can re-schedule all for more clement times.

Especially galling as I have new recorded material to tout. Listen to it here, below, and I hope it in some way recompenses for no live performances this week.

Lots of love

Helen

A step forward in computing proficiency marked by the joy and senseless waste of time taken playing this silly little game.

Got home about 7 o'clock. Back in Essex. Back in the Star. The usual suspects - very lovely.
Four pints, and now, home. Tearing the meat off a tasty chicken. The cat doesn't recognise me. But I know xim.

Helen's got a gig tonight in Shaw. At the Playhouse2. Lovely venue - be there if you can. I wish I could, but I'm some 200 miles away.

Helen and Mark are in Hartlepool tomorrow, Saturday. A new venue for them but it sounds very interesting.

She'll be back at home and in front of a computer soon though.....

Here's Helen with The Lovenotes singing in London. It was at the Thames Festival and it really was a perfect day.

Thanks go to whoever took this vid!

Ok so this is not difficult.

There'll be a personal post from Helen when she gets back from this bit of the tour.  Tonight she and Mark are in Ruthin, tomorrow Colne and Friday in Shaw at the Playhouse2.  Hartlepool on Saturday and home on Sunday.
All the details are on the gigs page.

With many thanks to Rob!

This is the soon to be home of Helen's blog.

But she's out on the road now, so hasn't actually seen it.

Maybe we'll be able to insert some pictures - like this perhaps