It's lucky we don't choose our own names, isn't it? Otherwise this blog may have selected something for itself involving books and politics and croquet, say.
Instead, I got to choose its name, and haven't I hit upon a pretty one? That fairly dances off the tongue?
Despite what you may, quite legitimately, be thinking, I did actually think for a long time and quite hard about the name. And all that thinking did me no good other than to help me realise that all the catchy, relevant names have been taken. My best choice (prior to 'Rita and Margriet (at the Bureau)') was 'kettle9_1604movies_blah@blogspot.com'. Now that's catchy.
So here we are at 'Rita and Margriet (at the Bureau)' and I couldn't be happier. What seemed at first like a bit of a random and slightly weird moniker has become, since midnight last night when I thought of it, the only blog name I can imagine living with for the next several years.
If you were kind enough to join me at my last blog (the similarly ridiculously named 'The Dangerous Kettle'), you will no doubt be noting the extensive changes I have made, including and limited to my radical adoption of the Courier font in the heading. This change has been a major design step forward for me, and I eagerly anticipate similarly futuristic advancements as this blog gets underway.
So here we are at a new URL at the end of 2010; you rock big time for coming here. Here's to a great first year at the Bureau with Rita and Margriet, and to you.
