Friko's World

       and away from the way of the world as it is now. I have said it many times, I am not one like Monty Python to "always look on th...

and God disposes. Whether it’s God, Fate or more likely, Sod’s Law*, sometimes you just cannot get past the obstacles in your way. It take...

Aconites  Hellebores  closed crocuses  jonquils  open crocuses all pretending it’s spring. The last few days have bee...

Opening the five-bar gate from the field into the castle ground to take Millie for a much truncated walk on one of these very cold afternoon...

except me, that the grass in the lower field, where Millie and I walk daily, is finally being cut and I can actually see her again  r...

Sky over Valley’s End. It’s been a messy kind of day. First Beloved came back from giving Millie her short morning run covered ...

Anyone for Hopscotch? Make sure you don’t step on the cracks. The crops are in, the hay is in, the fields round about look smooth ...

If anybody checked my Google searches they’d either have a fairly detailed picture of me quite quickly or they’d get a headache. With one ha...

  . . . . . Parking at the White Horse Inn.

For two gloriously sunny days I spent every possible minute outside. Gardener’s ribs settled down and so did my heart, fingers crossed! M...

in a letter to the Saturday Guardian Money Pages on 12.01.13 " I’ve given up buying any but the most essential clothes . . . . . . . ....

It’s been one of those absolutely filthy afternoons outside, the heavens just couldn’t decide whether to snow or rain on us; Millie and I...

The Olympic Games are over for another four years,  participants and their retinues have long left the Olympic Park, the news programmes o...

Since Friday 27th July I have done my best to escape London 2012. It's not that I don't appreciate the youth, beauty, skill and ath...

Ciclo dei Mesi February In last February's Miscellany I already described the abhorrent character and fate of   those unfortuna...

While I was wrestling with the taxman this morning our friend  Stephen Tunnicliffe  came round to bring me a copy of a delightful littl...

Zyklus der Monate  -  Dezember Meister Albert - 1400 The Sun enters the House of Capricorn. 'The man born under Capricorn...

Ciclo dei Mesi - 1400 Meister Albert November oo oo  oo No sun - no moon!  No morn - no noon -  No dawn - no dusk - no proper time of d...

It was a cold morning today, garden and castle meadow were bedecked with rime, and the tops of the hills having disappeared into a grey mist...

October  Meister Albert Zyklus der Monate  From a group of frescoes in the   Torre dell'Aquila, Castello del Buonconsiglio di Trento. ...