Friko's World

Lately I haven been thinking about happiness. Not only asking what it is but is there anyone who is likely to have more than a few months of...

Millie is throwing me a dirty look from under lowered, speckled-white eyebrows: “Can we Please go out? It’s a lovely day.”  “Oh, very...

I knew I would regret starting a week-long series of posts on positivity. It’s just not like me to go searching for 'reasons to be ch...

Image Wikia - Miss Piggy No small pleasure this, more a great bit of luck: Helen, the beautician, rang to say she had a cancellation ...

Two moments of awareness in one day, who’d have thought it: - It’s not that I wouldn’t have seen this chink of light breaking throu...

birch in November maybe. Try as I might I can’t find anything good about November, except that it’s nearly over and hasn’t been t...

At Grammar School my trials and tribulations hadn’t quite come to an end, but I learned to keep my head down and follow the rules. I was now...

Yes, there had indeed been a meeting, possibly the sort of thing that might be called an emergency council. We didn’t know about it at the t...

“You can’t just barge in here without an appointment”, he blustered. “This is my home and my family and I are about to eat our supper. If yo...

I caught a cold, a snot-rattling, throat-rasping, eye-watering, croaking-voiced cold. Fräulein Optenberg was certain the cold would be gon...

"I can’t stand a naked light bulb, amy more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action”, Tennessee Williams’ Blanche Dubois ...

We are not far from home now; there’s just the castle field to come. I promised Millie a paddle in the river and I must keep my promise. H...

Perhaps they’re not ‘weeds’ but wildflowers. After all, a weed is simply a flower growing in the wrong place. "It is not the business o...

I am not a summer person; I also know we haven’t quite got there yet except meteorologically, but yesterday and Thursday we definitel...

Definition of Permutation: "Each of several possible ways in which a set or number of things can be arranged.” as in “Friko’s thought...

I wasn't planning to publish any of this but let me start with the definition of ‘dysfunctional families’ acc. to Wikipedia: A dysfu...

We had a whole day without rain yesterday; it blew and blustered, of course, but there were minutes when the sun pushed through a gap and...

Having stirred the hornet’s nest so late at night, naturally I couldn’t sleep. Busy minds are a sure way to keep the sleep angels away, you ...