The Beggining

Greetings and salutations!
This is my first blog post for my Jour1111 blog. Before the real blogging begins I feel as though I need to get one thing off my chest. To a certain degree blogs are a very personal thing. I will be broadcasting my opinions, thoughts, feelings and inner-most secrets... okay maybe not the last one but never-the-less, I believe that this blog will be an insight to me and so there's something you need to know. A person's name is their main form of identification and, in most cases, is something that is personal, reliable, unchanging and comforting. For me however, the name Kathleen means very little. Ever since I can remember I have been called Bridgie. 'What on earth?!' I hear you cry in confusion, as every single other person I have ever explained this to has done. Well, it stems from my middle name and I have my brothers to thank(or blame) for taking my naming into their own hands while I was still shiny, new and wailing. It funny to think that even my own mother has never, in my living memory, called me by my true first name. So, if my audience of one (Hi to my tutor Ali!) doesn't mind, I will be blogging under the name of Bridgie. This was perhaps a little to in-depth and very unnecessary, but it's my blog and this was the first thing I wanted to write :)