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 ...

Valley’s End is flooded for the third time in just a few weeks; storm Dennis was worse than last weekend’s Ciara. In my twenty years here I ...

* It doesn’t do to neglect your bird feeders. Maybe. We have a lot of bird visitors to the garden, most of them lbjs (little bro...

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...

It is almost too late in the season to sing the praises of one of my favourite wild flowers, the humble cow parsley. For nearly all of May ...

The time has come for swallows, martins and swifts to leave the UK and embark on their epic migration to South Africa, so make the most...

cushion, snuffled out by Millie, late at night. I didn’t believe her when she said she’d found a ball and would I please throw it for ...

I find it impossible to kill any creature, I even open the window for a fly or wasp. I shoo mice out of the compost heap and garage; I pi...

A thud A crash A scream. Rushing to the back door, The evidence left behind a look confirms what we feared has happened...

Kingfisher Photograph by  Charlie Fleming Currently mired in a period of blogger’s paralysis, and struggling to find anything in...

Do My World pictures have to be beautiful? Can they be about something I found fascinating? While having my muesli breakfast in the co...

courtesy  the Guardian website Today was short on joy, perhaps I could call it satisfactory. There was lots of rain on and off...

 Ash Tree Buds Bursting Open Sometimes life gets in the way of blogging. I've had a few days away from the computer, and it fe...

On a walk in the woods, and on field edges, I looked for signs of Spring and, lo and behold, they are plentiful; although the tre...