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Despite the pouring rain outside, the hour of sleep I lost on Saturday night(thank you for that UK Daylight Saving Time) has reminded me that Spring has  just about sprung! The pollen season has started, there are Easter Eggs & Hot Cross Buns in the shops and crème eggs are everywhere! I sort of like spring, not just because it's a wee bit less Baltic than winter & it means my birthday cake day is approaching, but it symbolises the start of something new - that wasn't a reference to High School Musical but I now have the song stuck in my head - d'oh! A lot of things start over again in spring time, plants and flowers reappear, the British Soap Awards & Eurovision reappear, for a fair few years Doctor Who would reappear - I've totally lost track of what time of year it comes on now, I think its post summer but goodness knows, feel free to put my mind at ease and advise me :-) - I digress but basically a lot of things either r...

Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway. As a kid, I was fairly confident, possibly even too confident at times, I was scared of insects, dogs and lifts/elevators but not much else.  As I got a bit older, that confidence sort of dissolved like Alex Mack into a puddle of goop, and I found myself a much shyer Rachie. A few months ago, I met with a lovely lady called Hilary who was helping me by offering me advice & tips for interviews and she quickly picked up on the fact that one of my biggest problems was confidence. Along with lots of interview specific advice, she also advised that I do one scary thing everyday and read a book called 'Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway' by Susan Jeffers. I quickly acquired a copy and began reading it in the hopes that I would gain something from it - and I certainly did. Without reiterating the whole book and spoiling it for anyone who hasn't read it yet and might want to - I learned that I'm most afraid of What Ifs! What if I can't do t...

  There is a line in the film 'In Her Shoes' delivered by Rose describing her ever growing collection of shoes and what she gets out of owning them. "Clothes never look any good, food just makes me fatter, shoes always fit." In some ways I can relate to that, I share Rose's attitude to clothes and food and I share her obsession with shoes.  I don't have the luxury of shoes always fitting my feet, but that's down to my wide feed and the occasional manufacturers narrow measurement. As a girl who owns more than 50 pairs of shoes, it's fair to say that I'm a bit of a shoe fanatic. It didn't start as a conscious effort and I maintain that it still isn't!  My collection just sort of happened. Every pair of shoes represents something different for me, there are trusty every day pairs that I can rely on to carry my feet through the day and handle whatever weather they find themselves in....other pairs were specific purchases to fulfil a gap like se...

Hello, Hello, Hello. This is an obligatory first post test.  Hello World.  I'm just setting up this blogger malarkey, testing it out and playing around with themes..............don't mind me. At some point I'll endeavour to do something interesting. Ciao x