The B, B and the C word....

Sorry.
I suspect most people reading our blog don't give a hoot about what's happening in the world of the bbc.
But really...
Does anyone actually care that a kitten on Blue Peter, named 'socks' by er....popular vote, should actually have been named 'cookie'? Well, it would seem that's the most recent admission of public deception by the bbc trust...but then when we discover it was a multiple choice question, and the name that had been deemed 'inappropriate' for children, was a name that had been offered, by the bbc, as an option on the choice of three??!!
I for one, will surely need therapy after this one. Indeed, I am heartened, in a truly tongue in cheek sort of fashion, that a new kitten will be introduced to the land of Blue Peter and now named 'Cookie', oh yes, that just about puts everything right in the world...and I can forgive BBC for this blatant faux pas?????????
Hey, did anyone notice people were dying through hunger? Needless wars are being fought? Or the world is dealing with some pretty big stuff? Get a life BBC and can all these gung ho producers please stop holding their hands up to stuff that we DON'T REALLY NEED TO KNOW ABOUT.
Had a lovely evening with our friends Rachael, James & Jen tonight. None of us were drinking which is why I feel I can get up in what feels like the middle of the night and pen this blog.
James (did you know his nickname is Cookie? - see previous para) interviewed the high heid yin of BBC, Mark Thompson this evening for his radio show afore coming home to help cook us our delicious (or should that be delishishly James?) roasted veg & (optional) feta. He had to lead with the 'scandal kitty' issue, when in fact, the Director General was clearly there to promote the opening of Pacific Quay, the brand new box that is BBC Scotland. James was matter of fact. He had been running about trying to find a photocopier that worked, to copy MT's speech from earlier that he and production needed for the show that was about to go on air, only to be accosted by some management bod who thought his frantic running in the midst of all these dignitaries for the official 'opening' was not very BBC (Did we mention Gordon Brown was there too). Missing the point guys - BBC is there to produce news, not delay all such deadlines to meet and greet!
And then Rachael, who'd been up since 6.00am doing a photoshoot to pr a weel kent local shopping gallery, who was wearing a herbal patch to ease her backache caused by high heels and nae seets for seven hours!
And Jen, who was due to produce another weel kent radio show tomorrow morning at 7am (yikes!)
Goodness.
Despite all this, the point i guess I'm trying to make, because free of that world, I can now do so, is we had a lovely evening and we laughed about the day's events, and potentially the events of the morrow. There we had no egos, no-one trying to out-do the other with stories of importance, just a day in the life of, a job, and then hey, we all had lives.
You know what? We, as Lunicorn, hardly talked shop, and that has got to be a good thing. We were five friends breaking bread together, also talking about the real stuff, the very real things that affected our lives and it felt good.
Thank you James & Rachael for a lovely evening, and to Jen for running us home.
It's all good.
Night Night
The Lunicorns

C.V.

Good morning!
This blog should have really been written at 4.00am this morning when my somewhat direct unicorn shouted it in my ear....and then kept me awake until seven, till I got up and switched on the pc. (Thank you Jaz) So I guess it must be important.
Ok, yesterday afternoon, when other Ms Lunicorn and I were having a bit of a meeting re Lunicorn's ever evolving direction, and thinking it was probably time to cast off our diverse freelance activities and take another leap of faith, to focus solely on Lunicorn, Laura mentioned Shakti Gawain. Now Shakti is to Laura what Kate Bush is to me - a wondrous inspiration, and since I've known Laura, she's mentioned her a lot. Shakti Gawain has written a number of books about positive thought, but her most famous to date, is "Creative Visualization". Laura has always been suggesting to me that I read her books. As we were chatting, and Laura was reading me out yet another of Shakti's one liners, I suddenly thought, I know this writer already...off I went, to what we affectionately call 'the library' in our house, and there it was - The Creative Visualisation Workbook by Shakti Gawain. So what, you might think, what's the significance of that?
I bought this book over twenty years ago from a shop in Edinburgh, then owned by the lovely chaps who run the Body & Soul Fairs we attend with Lunicorn. And in it, I had created my very own visualisation page or 'treasure map'(pic of myself, some pix of sports cars, some positive words I had cut out of magazines) and on the opposite page I had written down my affirmations.
Now, here's the amazing bit. I'm now over forty, back then, I was in my early twenties, and being an Aries, I must have used this book for a while, then got bored and moved onto something else, as my input stops half way through.
Every thing that I wrote down or pasted in a picture of, has happened! I got my sports car, exactly like the one I'd cut out of a magazine (don't have it now, but that's another story), I got published, writing became my career, as I have been both a journalist and a publicist. From Joanna Lumley, who called me a gypsy (!), to K.T.Tunstall, I've either interviewed or set up interviews for some of the best known names out there. Yet, as I became enmeshed in that world, I lost sight of the map that had taken me there. It's only since we started Lunicorn, that I understand again. And whether we call it Creative Visualisation, The Law of Attraction, Positive Thought, The Secret, it's working with the same principles - simply that we can achieve anything and everything we truly want if we believe we can. Some of my goals have changed now from back then, but one remains steadfast - you see the unicorns have a plan.
Is it just co-incidence that CV stands for both Creative Visualisation and Curriculum Vitae. Think about what we do with our own CVs? We write down what we've achieved career wise and send it off to a prospective employer in the hope that they'll be dazzled by our skills and offer us that big job. Try writing your CV in the present tense, with everything you want in life. Where you want to be. We're doing it with Lunicorn. On Wednesday this week, before all this happened yesterday, we each bought cork boards to serve as visualisation boards for what we now want. I don't think there'll be any sports cars this time, but you never know! Maybe a pic of some nice clean lungs, as I realise the reason I haven't stopped smoking yet, is because I'm giving all this thought energy to stopping rather than focusing on health.
Ok, I think that's what I was supposed to write, so I'll bid you another Good Morning and go wake Laura Lunicorn.
Ta ta
x

Spooky dooky

Greetings Lunicorners,

One Lunicorn has just returned, somewhat frazzled, from an event, where she was wearing a completely different hat! And the strange mix of adrenalin and exhaustion has urged me to pen this blog right this very minute as a very extraordinary couple of things happened today.

Firstly, I was upanatem early this morning, and because other Ms Lunicorn had gone off to host our stall at the Viking Festival in Largs, I had the luxury of being able to switch on the television as I munched on my toast. There, on the Andrew Marr programme was a man, previously an actor, who had decided to chuck that particular career, and pursue 'peace', not as an ideal, but as an essential if the world, as we know it, is to survive. So much so, that he and the UN have created an International Day of Peace on 21st September (and practical things will happen that day, it's not just an airy fairy notion). Annie Lennox sat next to him, echoing the sentiment and putting her celebrity weight behind it. Oh no, not another hippy rant, you say...wait till you hear the next bit....

Ok, so my ringtone on my phone is usually Dusty's "The Look of Love", but when my phone rang this morning, suddenly it was Elvis' "If I can dream". I thought, how odd? But in my fresh intuitive state, thought, right, maybe I should just go with this, and instead of changing it back to Dusty, let it be this for just today, knowing that my phone was likely to be ringing off its little rocker, due to the nature of the work I was doing at the event, and maybe I needed a different energy to get me through it. When I left the event this evening and got into the taxi, I went to change it back, and of course, it was as if it had never been altered. My ringtone for 'incoming calls' was still Dusty.

Now, us Lunicorns have just listened to that song in full, and the lyrics speak volumes. If you get a chance, check it out. It was no co-incidence that this was what I needed to hear today.

On another note, the presenter of the event I was working at today, was Danny Wallace. Who he you may say? Well, apart from being on TV quite a bit, his book 'The Yes Man' is being made into a film, and Jim Carrey is playing him. I listened to him, as he explained what the book was about. He, Danny, spent six months, just simply saying 'yes' to everything, like when friends phoned him up wanting to go out, and when he would previously have made an excuse, he simply said 'yes'. Although, he also told a funny tale of when a double glazing salesman phoned him up and offered him a quote, to which he answered 'yes'. When can I come round said the salesman? What suits you said Danny? Tuesday, said the salesman. Yes said Danny. I should mention, he added, that I am already fully double glazed. The salesman said are you wasting my time? Danny said 'yes'. Anyhoo, the point of all that is that after Danny had started saying yes, he suddenly got lots of offers and things really shifted for him in his career. So, once again, the positive wins over the negative. We're not advocating 'yes' as a constant, as of course, there are some occasions when you should most definitely say no.

Meanwhile, the Viking Festival over the last four days has been terrific for Lunicorn. And Dundee Body & Soul, despite an AA route planner nightmare which took us over the Tay Bridge and back, was fantastic. Special guest speaker there, Alison De Marco, had, in the morning, jumped out of an aeroplane, in aid of charity, BoobyBirds, so was suitably shaken when she arrived to do her talk. Google it, and donate if you want, it's a really great cause.

So lots happening as ever, we may blog again just for fun over the next day or so.
Yes, yes, yes, we will.
Peace, joy, gratitude, ain't it sweet?
Till next time
L & L
The Lunicorns