A-Z Challenge 2025 - U is for (H)um and (H)aw

Well I'm scraping the barrel here with the take on Hum and Haw - which I found down a synonym black hole somewhere.  

"To procrastinate; to take a long time before doing something or taking a decision. We hummed and hawed before finally deciding to buy this house."

I would actually say "umming and arring" so it does fit with today's letter and we all know how good I am at procrastination.

Although not when it comes to house buying.  When we were looking for our first house to buy we did look at quite a few houses but then we saw one that had a more unusual layout to most of the ones we had seen and that was that.  It was the house I wanted.

The move to our second house wasn't even planned.  We were quite happy where we were, although we had 3 children by then so we knew a move would be sooner rather than later.  However an acquaintance lost the buyer for their house and we got chatting about that.  I went to look at the house and decided that I wanted to move there.  Hubby took a bit of convincing - and again we viewed quite a few other houses but he finally agreed and it was a done deal.

Our most recent move back in 2020 was hampered by the pandemic.  Having decided to move we had secured a buyer but then we were locked down.  When things started to open up again we knew we would have to move quickly to ensure the chain stayed intact but again when we viewed this house it ticked most of our boxes so it wasn't a hard choice to make.

I do think that you can just get a feel for the right house, but sometimes the circumstances aren't right for everything to fall in to place.  We were lucky.

Right on to the U countries:

• Uganda
• Ukraine
• United Arab Emirates (UAE)
• United Kingdom (UK)
• United States of America (USA)
• Uruguay
• Uzbekistan

Although I don't officially have a theme I wanted something to link my posts so I thought I'd see how many countries in the World I've visited or might visit. 

Well obviously I've been to the United Kingdom - I live here (in London).  And I've visited Scotland and Wales.  We should try and get to Northern Island at some point.

I've also been to the USA, 3 times now.  We first went in 2014 when our son got married.  And we have visited for Thanksgiving in both 2018 and 2024.  Our son's in-laws make very good hosts and we've been able to host them on their trips here.

I don't think I'll be visiting any of the other U countries.

That's 20 out of 197 countries then.

And  21 out of 26 letters done.