Meant to be

What does a big, fat, Greek wedding, the Indian Premier League and someone's inability to comprehend internet jargon have in common? My blog.

I've been procrastinating about doing this for years now. I've seen quite a few things, been to quite a few places, met great numbers of great people and had a huge number of thoughts about it all. I've always thought about telling others about these. The thing was that life went on, I met new people, went to new places and did new things and there never seemed to be the moment.

As is usual with these things it took a number of random, completely unconnected series of events to make the moment happen. The second two don't take much explaining. Last year English coverage of the IPL (www.iplt20.com/) was sponsored by www.godaddy.com where you can buy web hosting kit (smash 'em bash 'em cricket and web hosting, I didn't understand either). I went on and soon realised that names like SQL and the such meant nothing to me, so I searched the Internet for help. There I found http://www.mahalo.com/how-to-set-up-a-blog-for-beginners/ and so I began to follow the step-by-step instructions designed to help even the web illiterate begin their journey into the blogosphere.

The thing was you needed a name for starters; something bright and catchy, but not naff or cliched; original, but not so 'out there' that no-one's going to understand it. Well, it just so happened that I had been at my cousin's wedding the other weekend and after the lovely ceremony, we adjourned to her dad's garden for the reception. There I met a lovely lady (NOT a bridesmaid, I'm trying not to be cliched here, OK) and we started up a conversation. Somehow, we got around from me wanting to write a blog to the dad in MBFGW insisting he could derive any word from the Greek and then back to how certain things just happened because they were supposed to

"Serendipity" I said.
"Pardon?" was the understandable reply.
"I bet that comes from Greek."
"O-K". So we set about trying to do it. I thought the first part sounded like the Greek for 4 or "TesSERA". The second half she admitted could conceivably - when conceived on several glasses of wine - could come from "diploma" meaning a fold (look on Google translate, it's there).
"So," I surmised, "Serendipity means 'to fold something over four times'," a hesitant look, "at just the right time." I added. A sly smile,
"You have to put that in your blog!"

So there, you have it, fourfoldsandover, the random blog that was meant to be! Enjoy!