Friko's World

It looks like I am not going to take sensible advice anytime soon. “I think this could be a lot of work to keep it all going. Are you sure...

...... I can stay abreast of developments in technology, politics, current affairs, fashions and whatever else the modern world throws at me...

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 ...

There is just about still time to wish you all a happy and peaceful new year. Had I waited until tomorrow, being February, it might have bee...

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...

A friend of mine felt so upset at a thoughtless remark by an acquaintance recently that she found herself moved to publish a short letter in...

There is nothing easier than becoming a recluse, by accident or deliberately, they say. It doesn’t require action, no effort at all, in fact...

I counted my years and discovered that I have less time to live going forward than I have lived until now. I have more past than future. ...

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...

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 ...

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...

I am settling into my new life, strange though that is. I rarely cry. I am often very sad, lonely and still lost, but the raw emotion is les...

After Beloved. Everything is afterwards now. There was an old lady's funeral in Valley’s End today; I had planned to go, was determi...

Yes, it’s old gardener! Making sense of what has turned into an overgrown jungle. Paul, new gardener, has been busy doing his o...

Do the Chinese go in for New Year’s Resolutions? Mid-February already, so what’s happened to your New Year’s Resolutions?  Kicked into th...

For several days now I’ve been feeling guilty for ignoring my blog; yes, I’ve been busy, but not that busy. I’ve gardened, walked the dog, r...

I was quite pleased with myself last week. There are few weeks when I can sidestep the black hole altogether, and keeping a black cock h...

At a 93rd birthday party recently I was sitting on the sofa next to Wendy, a sweet old widow lady, a fellow guest. Nearly all the gue...

Saturday morning between eleven and one. Neighbours, friends, acquaintances, people like us, people one knows. There is wine. 'Frenc...

. . . . . . . . . . but more along the lines of ‘All Passion Spent’; Men grow too old to woo, my love, Men grow too old to wed; ...