Friko's World

Still reading old diaries off and on; more off than on now because my trials and tribulations of long ago follow me into unquiet dreams as w...

Sitting in the comfortable chair in my study, feet up on the footstool, book open on my lap. I am calm and quiet, reflecting on life a...

Under the huge weight of the pink rambling rose stretched along the middle halfway up the picture are a brick wall, a wooden trellis and ...

One minute I am sitting staring into the void, the next I get up and the perspective on life changes. The winds of change blow indiscrimina...

“The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it.” – said Ansel Adams. That’s were Beloved took up position....

So here we are, almost back to normal. A bit thinner, a bit greyer, a bit chastened, a bit the worse for wear, but alive and thinking of ...

taken from the bailey looking up the valley K. has been a neighbour for several years. We meet walking our dogs, K. has a lovely collie...

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 ...

When delving into the philosophy of how best to live life in midlife and beyond, many bloggers stress the importance of remaining produ...

I expect Florence had something there. Fear can be quite debilitating. Shakespeare says in Romeo and Juliet: “ I have a faint cold fear...

Black tubs are sprouting all over the garden. Paul came yesterday, then today it was Gardener’s turn.  Gardener still hasn’t twigged abou...

What better occupation on a filthy day like today (Thanksgiving for my US friends, but a very ordinary, very wet, very blowy day here in the...

Ciclo dei Mesi - 1397 September Chaenomeles The fruits of the Japanese Quince are very hard and astringent, inedible in their raw st...

Loriot    Nov 12, 1923-Aug 22, 2011 At some dinner parties the most wonderful conversations, clever and witty, erudite and eloquent arise ...

Nobody wants to know you when you're down;  A dark cloud deadens the sparkle  and muddies the waters. I'm in hiding. " Lau...

Few people, even in the UK,  know about the beauties of the English Border County of Shropshire; I feel privileged to live here and  have d...

"Come, sweetheart, listen, for I have a thing Most wonderful to tell you, news of Spring". Chaenomeles flowering on a sun-kisse...

Of Rivers What a difference a week makes. These two photos were taken from the same spot of the same part of the river. I am not at al...

"Twelfth Night" by David Teniers the Younger (1634-40) The Twelve Days of Christmas begin on  December 25 and end on Epipha...