Eadaoin - I always think this in my head as sounding much like Edwin is that anywhere near close or am I way off the mark?
KG - nope, England born and bred and lived here all my life. The closest I've ever been to NZ would be Yugoslavia when I was 2 years old (and yes, I know that's not very close at all... But it is closer to NZ than England
). To be honest back then I was unaware of the Maori greeting.
My very first username when I first dicovered the internet many years ago was Lakassa after a horse my mom had when I was a child. I later started using Breizzze but no-one could figure it out (Breeze) and most got confued by the triple "z". Within a year of being online I became Kia and use it in real life as well as online.
I always hated my birth name, but researching my FH has made me feel differently about names so after I got married I kept my birth surname as a middle name and have now looked at how to legally switch my birth first and middle names and add Kia to the front as that's the name I am known by (and have been for 1/3 of my life).
Ooops, sorry for writing a book.
