Little Lyle

Thank you for the wonderful response to my 200th blip yesterday. It was really special to get such positive feedback from so many people and I have responded to you all individually.

So, now that we have shared 200 blips , I think that I can share a little bit more of me with you.

I have decided to change the name of my journal because, well frankly, Kevin's Journal was a bit dull but the truth of it is that when I signed up to this wonderful site, I didn't know how and where the title would be used. Once I got into it and saw much more creative titles, I decided it would need to change at some time but wanted a landmark or at least a specific reason to justify confusing people, especially as I have subscribed to a couple of people in the past and then thought it odd that I don't recognise them in my list.

Therefore, I decided yesterday that the 200th blip was a sufficiently good landmark to mark the name change and hope it doesn't cause too much confusion, I have also changed my account name to make it clear who I am when I comment.

Mrs W (The List Lady) was born and brought up in the same Bedfordshire town as we live and I was born and brought up in Greenock on the River Clyde. When we got together, I had been working in London for many years and it is realistic enough to assume that, as I have now spent more than half of my life working in London and living in the south east of England, I am unlikely to return to my home territory other than to visit. Therefore, I made a conscious decision that when I proposed to Cath, I would do so somewhere that would make Greenock special to both of us, and I did so at the top of Lyle Hill overlooking the Clyde, Greenock and Gourock (not to mention down the Spango Valley towards Inverkip where I lived for five years).

While we were waiting to move into our current house, we had memories of it being up a slight hill and decided that to link our home (in Cath's hometown) to my hometown, we would name the house after the location of our engagement. We realised that it wasn't a significant hill, hence the name Little Lyle, but only realised when we were literally about to move in that our initial impression had created a rather odd memory as it is barely a slope. Anyway it matters not, Little Lyle is the name on the front of the house and for now, this journal will be known as Little Lyle Files.