N is for .................................

 Not much begins with N - or not much that I could think of to blog about - hardly anything in the labels and I certainly didn't want to write about Non Hodgkins Lymphoma. 

So I asked for suggestions and these were what were given to me..................

November, New, Neighbours, Neighbourhood, Nanny, Norfolk, Notebooks, Not for me, Nature, Nuts, NIMBY, Novels, Nattering,

Thought I would do all of them!

NOVEMBER ........I could repeat the gloomy November poem by Thomas Hood but even that isn't correct for this year as the weather has been unseasonably warm and there are plenty of birds on the feeders and we don't have smog anymore.

NEW............the newest thing in the house is the en-suite shower room and I have actually bought something new for it. It's rare for me to buy something without much thinking, looking and pondering and finding second-hand but car-boot sales have finished and I needed some small storage to fit under the basin and found a little drawer stack. I decided to have an old fashioned basin rather than one of those all-in-one fitted unit cupboard things and I like proper taps and a plug on a chain to fit the plughole.

NEIGHBOURS..........I have a couple in their late 30s on one side they have 2 children, the eldest has just started secondary school and the youngest is 8. A and A  both work - the husband was a wedding photographer who had to think of something else to do in Covid so now also runs his own specialist baking business. He works very odd hours and is often out at farmers markets and foodie events at weekends. They are friendly - thankfully - as we share a driveway entrance. 

On the other side are a retired couple, my age . Also friendly. I've just cut my horrible Yew hedge between our front gardens and did both sides as T has been a bit poorly. There's one area I couldn't reach, so hope they don't mind the sticky-up bits I had to leave!

Over the back are a young family with 3 daughters - they both work, and are hardly ever there except in summer when the eldest daughter spends a lot of time practising tennis against the back wall of their house, which would drive me nuts if I lived there!

NEIGHBOURHOOD..........Neighbourhood isn't a term we use so much here. I looked up the actual meaning and it says "part of a town or city". But I'm edge of a friendly village, which is a good place to be, everyone says hello around the village and I don't feel too enclosed with the graveyard over the road.

NANNY...........I'm a Nanna. My Mum was a Grandma and neither me or my sister wanted to be called Grandma so we are both Nannas. 

NORFOLK................is that County over the border! divided from Suffolk by the River Waveney. They have a football team that Suffolk people never mention! I cross the border every time I go to Morrisons in Diss.

NOTEBOOKS..........the only one I have is where I write ideas for books to borrow from the library although I do have an accounts book and a diary for reminders. My blog is my biggest notebook.

NOT FOR ME..............?

NATURE.......... gets mentioned on here under The Natural World label

NUTS...........Just stocked up on 2 large bags of mixed nuts to make Spiced Nuts for Christmas - me and the hampers and then me again!.

NIMBY...........Never had to worry about anything happening in My Back Yard

NOVELS...........due to working in a library these are called Fiction. I read a lot of Fiction!

NATTERING.............supposed to be something women do - but I think men do it much more, especially when working. I know this due to the 3+ weeks of having the men working here doing the shower room! Yesterday the builders came back to make the door from the garden into what was the old en-suite. There were two of them and they spent 20 minutes nattering out the front of the bungalow until eventually taking some tools round the back. They didn't stay long as it started pouring with rain.

Hope they are back again today.

NICE............One of those words that has different meanings depending on the tone of voice! I don't think I say it very often - it's a 'nothing much' sort of word in my mind. I think I'm more likely to say Lovely or Good. I shall listen to myself to see when I next say Nice!

Don't think I've missed any ideas - thank you to everyone who helped fill this post.

(Thank you for comments yesterday - apologies for not replying. Also hello to some new followers, hope you enjoy reading)

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Sue