• You leave a comment on her blog, she assigns you a letter
• You then write a post about 10 things you like, beginning with that letter, for your own blog
• When people comment on your list, you continue the game by assigning them a letter

I took the plunge, and Gill gave me the letter ‘N’. Here’s my list, achieved with only a little cheating!

Nat, also known as Dweezeljazz

Nat My first ‘N’ is easy, my wife Nat, also known as Dweezeljazz. Life just keeps on getting better with her and because of her.

Night-skies I have had an interest in astronomy ever since I can remember. As a kid I used to make telescopes out of whatever spare lenses I could find. You couldn’t see much through them, but I had fun anyway.

Hermit Crab at night

Night-dives Looking down instead of up, I’ve been on a few diving holidays to the Maldives in the past. Night-dives are something special, seeing how the reef changes. I’ve dived the same reef in the afternoon and the evening of the same day, and it’s like it’s a different place altogether.

Nature, in general, has also been a lifelong interest for me. At school, the teachers had to persuade me to read fiction-books in the reading lessons, instead of books about things that live at the bottom of a pond. I suppose they had their reasons!

Notocactus Tabularis

Notocactus, a type of cactus with very pretty flowers. Even though they are apparently now called Parodia instead of Notocactus, they were still called Notocactus when I started growing them as a kid, so I’m sticking to the name. I had over 400 species of cactus in my collection as a teenager, nearly all of them died when I went to university and they could not be looked after in winter. Now I have space for only a few plants, and Notocactus Tabularis is among them.

Nemo and Dory

Nemo. “Finding Nemo” has to be one of the best films of all time. I just love those characters, I even have a little plastic Nemo on my desk. Sad, I know…

New Technology. My first computer had 1kB of memory. I’m glad things have progressed, and I do my best to keep up with what’s new.

Nudibranch

Nudibranchs, or sea-slugs, are some of the most colourful and beautiful creatures in the sea. They’re small, so can be hard to spot, but I enjoy looking for them. After all, anyone can spot a whale.

Neige. I know, that’s “snow” in english, which begins with an ‘S’, not an ‘N’. But this is supposed to be a bilingual blog, so I can use a French ‘N’ too, can’t I? We’ve had a lot of snow here this winter, and I just love the way it changes the landscape.

Nat, again, because every fun thing that I do begins and ends with her.

I have to say, that was harder than I thought it would be, even though Gill was kind to me with the letter (thanks, Gill). Still, I did it, so does anyone else want to play?