Friko's World

One winds on the distaff what the other spins. (Both spread gossip).  Pieter Bruegel the Elder - Dutch proverb Gossip is idle t...

The Great Storm of 1987 About five o’clock one morning last week I was woken by strange noises outside. Rattling and thumping, high-p...

You know that Kelly, who comes and cleans the spaces in my house which can be seen without moving furniture, also works as a peripatetic car...

What is the first thing you do when you take a tumble in public? Feel a fool, of course. Beloved tripped over a kerb yesterday as he load...

The old couple were second in the supermarket queue. It wasn’t a long queue and the young man at the till moved items across his scanner wi...

The party was huge, with people crowding everywhere; a Brazilian friend of the hosts was singing Latin American popular songs and guests sto...

Both of them were guests at the same party; she’d seen the lady with the I-don’t-want-to-speak-to-you face on several occasions before, here...