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Roland here, we've already been formally introduced....but for those of you who don't know who I am, I'm Rachie's right foot - Roland.  My buddy Hector (her left foot) and I are Rachie's feet, we're the guys who take her places and we usually let her do the talking, but we recently came back from London and thought about letting Rachie blog about it, but to be honest...this was our trip...we did all the walking!  Here is just a snippet of our London Adventure with Rachie.  Day One                                                 Hector and I got up early to make sure Rachie got the 7.30am train from Glasgow to London , we broke our no peeing on a train rule because Rachie just had to have an Irn Bru and a water and finally around lunch time, we arrived in London, had lunch and made our way to the hotel.  Later on we took Rachie to Leicester Square an...

I get inside my head sometimes, which is a silly saying because I'm always going to be inside my head, but I can overthink things, talk myself out of things, fixate on things that make me anxious and exhaust myself.  I've managed to get inside my own head creatively.    I've mentioned before that being creative in itself is a thing that people can get inside their own heads about (See my review of Change Your Mind - 57 Ways to Unlock Your Creative Self )and that I feel the concept of creativity is all about how you condition yourself to think.  That being said, I feel like I've allowed myself to become somewhat creatively constipated lately, is that a phrase? I'm not sure. I'm going to use it anyway.  I'll come up with what I think is a good idea, I'll begin to start the motor and take the idea from being a nugget inside my brain to being a reality and its like my brain gets stage fright and doesn't want to perform.  I think it's a creative const...

I'll admit it, despite my youthful complexion, I'm getting old! In about seven or eight weeks time, I'll age and switch from being a 27 year old to being a 28 year old. Having stumbled across Xandra Robinson Burn's blog Heroine Training via my mother, I came across her How to Write a Birthday list guide. The idea being that it is a bit like a bucket list, but with the deadline being your next birthday.  Me being me, decided to give this ago at the end of February when my birthday is in April, giving myself about seven or eight weeks to achieve the items on my list.   Below is my 28 Things To Do Before I'm 28, I may fail spectacularly at all of them but it'll be the sense of adventure, organisation and trying that'll be the fun part! 28 Things to Do Before I'm 28 Read a Harry Potter book in another language . This one is unashamedly borrowed from Xandra, however I think it will be a great brain exercise for me and inspire me to improve. I also like Harr...

As January draws to a close, I've been thinking a lot about the mental rut I usually get myself in at this time of year. Each time a New Year rolls around I start thinking about all the things I don't like about myself and channel those things into making a list of resolutions to take forward into the New Year and kick start the process of becoming the new me.  Quite predictably, I never quite manage to tackle my list and achieve my goal of becoming the newer, shinier me.  Resolutions work for some people and don't for others, I'm certainly in the latter camp.  Five Reasons Why I Don't Keep Resolutions I aim too high Quite often when I'm making my list of things I'd like to change, I don't think about what is going to be achievable in the near future, I go straight for things that are quite hard to achieve and wonder why I struggle. I don't plan properly When compiling my list, I'll identify what I'd like to achieve but won't actually bre...

I haven't had a bad day, far from it, I had a very nice day....but it was a very nice day that felt a little bittersweet.  So I made a happy list to remind me of some of the things that make me smile and encourage me to focus on positives.  If, like me, you are into stationery and thought that looks like a fun notepad, my notepad is from Paperchase - http://www.paperchase.co.uk/all-change-a5-notebook.html

Today my festive spirit has really kicked in....well, you'd hope so on Christmas Eve!! Technically it kicked in yesterday when I opened my Secret Santa Present at work - it was a book!! Kudos to whoever my Secret Santa was - perfect choice!! Today I did some last last last last last minute shopping, accompanied by James who very kindly wandered around shops with me and carried things! Instead of getting annoyed at people who bumped into me in shops or forgot their manners I sang festive wishes to them! I got ridiculously excited when a self checkout in the supermarket wished me a Merry Christmas...so excited that I wished it one right back! Once I got home I set about finishing my wrapping and I'm not sat watching The Grinch, quoting every single line...because The Grinch.  I had so many great ideas for Blogmas and then December sort of disappeared before I had a chance to really do anything with them...........maybe next year I'll be better.

Rudolph the Post It Reindeer, sat upon a shiny phone...and if you ever rang it, he would maybe say hello........ Three days until Christmas - Three Festive Facts From Today Christmas Song I sang along to at the top of my lungs Merry Christmas Everyone.  Number of Cheesy Christmas poems I wrote about Monkeys Just the one!! Festive Friend Meet Up Total Technically one, but two if you count saying a quick hi and bye to the friends my mum was with when she was meeting me later in the day.