Norfolk

Don’t you mean a Norfolk Dumpling ?

Interesting you asking this tonight, I've just booked my friend a night in a fantastic hotel in Reepham for a treat for her birthday.

Yes, I'm Norfolk born and bred, now living in Glasgow. Beautiful county with a wonderful city - Norwich.

Norwich ‘a very fine city’
I m in Silly Suffolk Gaga

Yes I am in beautiful Norfolk,been here almost 14years.

I'm a Norfolk broad although left for London as a late teenager. Not sure if I'd want to go back or not, although I'm out house-priced now anyway.

Very pretty county.

Not from Norfolk- but spent a lot of time on the North Norfolk coast- absolutely love it. But like Devon, for holidays not to live.

My husband is Norfolk born and bred now living in France. A lovely county with so much to recommend it. I lived in Suffolk for many years and really miss the sea now.

Went for a sea swim last night sodapop cold but still and a bit magical with the moon coming up

I'm from Norfolk but left in my late teens. Some people love it but I wouldn't go back.

I've also lived in Suffolk sodapop. I think to non East Anglian natives, it all seems like one homogenised area. But to us Natives, they're distinct areas!

I think the Norfolk beaches are very similar to Northumberland Kali. Just a lot colder in Northumberland!

I live near the North Norfolk coast. Retired here after many happy holidays in the area and love it. There are parts of Norfolk I’m not so keen on and a great deal of poverty in both rural and urban areas.

We moved here 37 years ago .
I’ve lived all over the place but feel at home under the big blue sky, well maybe it’s not so blue today.
The best beach ever is not far away, Norwich is lovely. What’s not to like?
Well maybe the traffic this year because of Covid the whole world was here. Everyone is welcome, it helped the local economy but goodness me sometimes we had to use our local knowledge to get anywhere. Still, good for the brain cells!

Yes, I remember the traffic and the crowded beaches. It's because the weather is milder there. I use Northumberland beaches now. Just as pretty, far less people. But that's because it's bl**dy cold up here!

Well done BlueBelle I can imagine how lovely it was despite the cold.

Gagajo you can always find a beach up here with lots of space left.
The traffic has been worse this year but compared to the wider world it’s still not too bad. Just time your departure from the county via Kings Lynn to avoid the busy times, the end of half term for example!

Guess where I'm from. Still here. A born and inbred Norfolk Dumpling. I've been doing my and DH's family tree over the last year and its scary! Norwich-over-the-water and the Broads up to the coast is 'my' bit, back as far as I can go. There was a distant 4xgreat grandmother who came from Saxmundham!

The advantage of living here is that when we go away on holiday everyone is just arriving into the county and when we get back the queues of traffic are going the other way!

BlueBelle

Went for a sea swim last night sodapop cold but still and a bit magical with the moon coming up

That sounds absolutely fabulous, BlueBelle. Are you in England?

Nfk see my previous post. We left home on a Friday afternoon. It took us over an hour to get to the A17, normally it takes 30mins!

I've said on GN before, that I was born & bred in Norfolk.
I still have family there.

We live over the border, in Cambs., now, (for the past 53 years!).

Love Norfolk so much that we bought a plot by the sea in the N.W. of the county. We have our little home-from-home there.

Just been to close down for the winter, we will visit to check on the place over the winter, (& get our "Norfolk-Fix!).

Roll-on next Easter, when we will be "regulars" again.!

Gosh NorfolkDumpling, that poor lady all the from Saxmundham! Was she ever accepted or always a furriner?!

all the way from …

I lived on the Suffolk/Norfolk border near Diss for two years then moved near Swaffham for two years before moving to Cambridgeshire.

I went to a silver wedding celebration in Swaffham two months ago and couldn’t believe how busy it is now compared to the sleepy town I knew and loved in the mid seventies.

I think the same goes for everywhere now though.

I was visiting family in America and went into a large store. The lady serving me said " oh you are from England, I lived there for a while, a little place called Saxmundham" what a small world as I was living a few miles away in Lowestoft.