Friko's World

my favourite Japanese Acer hidden under the shroud. space - you need more? Now that my desktop is back  I can finally get back to boring the...

It’s hard to find something to post about when you do nothing but spend time at home. We’ve had glorious weather and I’ve been working like ...

It is time for all the heroes to go home if they have any; time for all of us common ones to locate ourselves by the real things we l...

"You are looking really well. Have you got over . . . ?” That’s where she stopped, a little unsure of whether she had paid me a complim...

`’Do you live here all by yourself?” Micky was new to the German Conversation group. She hadn’t been to my house before and during her vis...

My darling Millie has died. In her last days she could barely make it to the lawn and often poo'd on the flags of the terrace. She dete...

Here’s a question: Do we only truly love those by whom we feel loved or can we love without expecting a return? (Forget about unrequite...

Have you ever felt that you’ve lost your way, that life isn’t what it was, that you’d dearly like to become positive, active and energetic? ...

maybe? I’d like to make it so, but who knows? I have tried so many times since Beloved died but have, so far, not kept my word, either to ...

From hopeful to hopeless, from dark to light, from cheerful to miserable. Sometimes all of these emotions overcome me in one day. Whatever i...

that  ‘The functions of the Mistress of the House resemble those of the general of an army or the manager of a great business concern.’ I...

but not looking solely towards the future rather than being in the here and now. Continual learning is an essential part of life. (I looked...

yes, it has helped. It may have something to do with the weather or it may have something to do with a change in attitude, there is most c...

One minute I am sitting staring into the void, the next I get up and the perspective on life changes. The winds of change blow indiscrimina...

and how to make them? I don’t know how you would feel, but I find it very hard to make any at all since Beloved died. Being the only one ...

. . . . and last month I hit rock bottom. Just as that heart specialist (how apt, ‘ heart  'specialist) told me a year ago, that the en...

This As I’ve said before, I now accept more or less every invitation extended, in fact I appreciate it when people include me. We always w...

An old acquaintance's funeral was held today and although I promised the person who told me of the death that I would present myself pun...

Goodness gracious, how lovely to see so many of you return to this tardy blog; it made me feel all warm and wanted. Thank you so much. I sha...

. . . starting with a visit to the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Marlowe’s play 'Dido Queen of Carthage’ which is based on...