Friko's World

  Griddy is a hedgehog which was trapped in my cattle grid and rescued by the two little girls in the photo. He is not the first one to end ...

In spite of the month being October there are still areas of wonderful displays. The hedge is full of berries and hips; does that mean we ar...

  The ancient Greeks had a word for it, they called it HUBRIS, closely followed by NEMESIS. I can’t say that I was surprised when the long-e...

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 ...

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...

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

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, ...

but it's not easy in the depths of winter, at this late stage in the season. I had a post planned about the turf wars breaking out among...

So many posts unposted, so many blogs unread, so many comments ignored or not left, so many emails not replied to, so much writing left unwr...

Clematis Tangutica in October The phone rang: “Sorry, Mrs. Friko, I have rammed a chisel into my hand. It doesn’t look good, I’d bett...

October, and uneven patches of the ornamental Japanese cherry tree are turning red, while other parts of it hold on to green leaves. The ...

In his poem 'September 1815' Wordsworth has it that While not a leaf seems faded, while the fields, With ripening harvest pro...

Come sweetheart, listen, for I have a thing Most wonderful to tell you - news of Spring. Albeit Winter still is in the air, a...

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

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...

An early spring day, soft and mellow, a slight haze in the air; too good to spend all of it indoors.  We start off at the...