Just sent you a 25HP delegation from my alt. account to help you along. Welcome to Hive and allow me to make a couple of suggestions!
Best wishes :-)A proper intro post usually works well, use #introduceyourself as the first tag and many of the 'meet and greet' brigade will pick it up and say hello, and secondly, when you use stock photos, please always give a source under the photo please. Stops our very keen anti-abuse teams from apoplectic fits!
Thank you for the kind gesture. I only learned about the Introduction post a while after I joined and already made a few posts, so I figured it would look silly to do it by then. Regarding citing sources, I'm busy catching up with that, in most posts anyway. Will keep your advice in mind.
You're welcome and good luck, it is rather a steep learning curve and sometimes the old folks have too little patience with the noobs!