Friko's World

I've been well enough to restart/continue this blog for at least two months. The last chemo was in November 24, it took me six weeks or ...

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...

in spite of feeling that I have nothing to say. I am feeling a little sheepish about having been away for so long. It’s been up and down, ...

15th November to 15th January - a long break from blogging. Only five followers have decided that this blog isn’t worth following now, so t...

How utterly exhausting it is to get tangled up in politics for weeks on end; it’s draining, physically and mentally. True, we need to get an...

In the era of Donald Trump and Brexit, Oxford Dictionaries has declared “post-truth” to be its international word of the year 2016. US ...

on this grey and dismal day. That’s about all we can do. “Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't...

what is wrong with you? Have you gone stark staring mad? After last year’s horrors, I was counting on the silly season being exactly tha...

Since Friday morning six a.m. I have done little but follow the unfolding Brexit horror story; on the TV news, in political debates, newspap...

and come out from behind that black cloud, they decided to have a divorce. (image  it’s nice that ) .... alle Menschen werden Brüd...

Following news sources online is a mug’s game. There are too many sites which concentrate disproportionately on hyped and blown up bad news...

 First it looked like everything would change, we’d tax the rich and allow the poor to eat without feeling guilty. Children climb...

. . . . . Don’t speak ill of the (recently) dead. Two men, both larger than life, both on the very left of the political spectrum, hav...

"Any ideas for a blog post? I need something light and easy, nothing that will require research, nothing too serious, nothing too perso...

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...

The receptionists at the private hospital barely looked up from their computers.  The one I chose stretched out her arm and grabbed the form...

For eight years you’ve been suffering the same health problem. Once a year, maybe twice a year. Not always to the same degree of seriousness...