Friko's World

my ornamental Japanese cherry tree in full autumnal splendour   This morning I woke up a little subdued - I don't want to make my mood s...

Just now I finished a phone call with a very old lady friend. Old in years, not so much old in friend years. One of these sweet old dears wh...

 It’s only now, when midlife has long passed, that my midlife crisis is hitting me. ( Google says that  Midlife crisis” may be a nother name...

the end of culture as I know it, for the time being anyway. I hope. Creativity is in short supply in my household, all I can think of doin...

Surfeit: (noun) an excessive amount of something or , acc. to Duke Orsino in Twelfth Night Act 1, scene 1" If music be the food of ...

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...

So there I was, aiming for human interaction resulting in happiness, or at least a semblance of contentment. Fat chance. Not that it wa...

Fully autumn soon, the nights are drawing in, there’s a chill in the air and the leaves of the Japanese ornamental cherry show just t...

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

Did you know that? Do any of you live in or near one of the Stratfords mentioned here? Do these Stratfords have theatres similar to ...

It’s really hard to come up with a worthwhile blog post when your mind is preoccupied. I may also be suffering from writer’s block, all my ...

Laburnum in June Good foot is still needed to go to heaven, but bad foot going to hell is already miles better; it was ever thus, th...

The difference between these two pictures is 20 hours and an awful lot of rain. It’s the same stretch of river and the same willow ...

What comes first: a great intellect or a great memory? Can you have one without the other? We have just waved goodbye to a couple of visit...

as speechless. This is a picture of the clock tower in the little Welsh market town of Knighton, just over the border from Valley’s End...

or How to Spend a Profitable Afternoon. (It’s still raining) What started me off I no longer know.  I remember I was idly looking for poet...

                                                                                          .....and evermore shall be so. There are time...

is that you? I like your hair extensions." D.T. is not only famous for having been a splendid Doctor Who but also for his work o...

While inside ‘The Swan’ theatre at Stratford  The Bard is being worshipped, outside, in glorious sunshine, Shakespeare’s common man...