Philippa R. Francis

Photopoem shared 26th October 2026

I will never understand the number of people expressing concern about how AI will affect our jobs and our security while forwarding their friends AI memes of monkeys riding donkeys or asking Chat GPT what to cook for their dinner.

When I die I want a leaf blower named after me so that when people are woken up by it at 7am every morning they can remember me and think, "Rónán would have hated this."

VAMPIRES: TWO CENTURIES OF GREAT VAMPIRE STORIES Doubleday 1987 ed. Alan Ryan. Edward Gorey cover. In the pages of this treasured book in all their glory, are some of the great #vampires in literature, male & female, invisible & metaphoric, doomed & daring! #31DaysOfHalloween

Fresh from lobbying the chancellor ahead of the marmalade tariff reduction. Behold the smugness.

An #Inktober #linocut from the garden 🐡

Good morning. He’s a bright beauty for #MushroomMonday. Wishing you an equally bright start to your week. #mushrooms #toadstool #funghi #woodland

13th century heraldic floor tiles from the Church of St Mary at Abbey Dore in Herefordshire (the former abbey of Dore Abbey). #TilesOnTuesday #AbbeyDore #Herefordshire

constant obstacles often working in insecure positions and struggling for recognition. She eventually became a lecturer at Leeds, and remained dedicated to research. She died in 1937, possibly from radiation exposure, her contributions largely overlooked until recent rediscovery #WomenInScience

Paris and Ernest Rutherford in Manchester, researching radioactive elements. During WWI, Leslie became head of a government lab in Liverpool, optimising nitric acid production for explosives - an extraordinary role for a woman at that time. Despite her brilliance, she faced

🧵May Sybil Leslie, born in 1887 in Woodlesford, overcame significant barriers as a woman in science. From a working-class background, she won scholarships to study at the University of Leeds, graduating with first-class honours in chemistry. She later worked with Marie Curie in

Rowan MacGregor, UK based artist making delicate copper sculptures #WomensArt

Weather Report: wild, wet, windy. A sudden plunge into unlit dark & mud, bringing the horse in. My shadow a Nosferatu grotesque in head torch light. A skittishness of leaves. A horse colics: we help his owner keep him on his feet til the vet arrives. Emotional Weather: storm-facing

Listening to a report about Google chopping down a quarter of a million trees in Finland to build a data centre while washing out yoghurt pots for the recycling

🖼️ Leonid Emilevich Hamburger

#completethehaiga 174 @completethehaiga.bsky.social

These Shaggy Scalycaps have such a cosy spot inside a tree stump. Even when it’s tipping down and the wind is howling they look safe and snug. 🍄 #FungiFriends #MushroomMonday

A Girl of the Sixties, c. 1900 by Bessie MacNicol, Scottish painter #Womensart

Black swan at Wintersett by Steve Milner

Good morning and a happy #ThickTrunkTuesday to all the tree friends out there 🌱🌳 #TreeDay #nature #woods #TreesOnTuesday

scheduled post Henua Stabile Moorea, French Polynesia "This morning, during our sharing tour, we found around 15 whales along the reef alone🙏🏽 Grateful for what we got to experience today. 🤍 "

Common Puffball - Uffmore Wood near Clent Worcestershire UK - 16-10-26 #photography #fungi #mushrooms #autumn #canon #macro #naturephotography #nature #uknature

Painting by Doreen Fletcher, ‘Black and Yellow House’ 1979 Oil on canvas, Size not stated.

Don't jump to conclusions, because you might twist an ankle or hurt your knees. It's best to slowly sneak up on conclusions and smother them with a pillow.

apple carvings by tomoko sato

UK artist Helen Musselwhite combines hand cutting, folding and scoring paper and card to create her artworks, which are often inspired by nature #WomensArt #Autumn

The moon was so beautiful this morning it stopped to look at its own reflection

1st thing light raking through stormwreckage of cloud, blackbird berrybilled & speckled moves through

Hookland has a lot more Fully-grown Changelings than other places Nokes. You can’t be a decent detective in the county if you haven’t got a tolerance for the unconventional, for the weird. Mind you, I’d say you can’t be a decent human without acceptance for diversity. – #DICallaghan

Bonus Book Cover of the Day:

This morning the wind is unknotting the year from the tree, keeping what it needs and releasing the rest. Leaves are a gift. Branches are a gift. Time is a gift #poetry #morningwalk

Disappointed to miss World Pasta Day yesterday - now I need to heat up this poem in the microwave.

Some shaggy ink-caps popping up around the cyclamen 🌱🍄 #MushroomMonday #FungiFriends #Bloomscrolling #PinkMon #ColorADay #EastCoastKin

Romano-Celtic stone head found at West Denton close to Hadrian’s Wall in 1969. Now in the Great North Museum, Newcastle. This one is clearly trouble at night, hence the restraining bars. #StoneHeadSunday

#MushroomMonday togetherness 🚴🏽 Roztocze National Park, yesterday #biking #Roztocze #Poland #nature #forest #autumn #mushrooms #fungi #ShroomScrolling #FungiFriends

Cornwall hair.

An elegant little group of mycena. 🍄 #FungiFriends #MushroomMonday

Pretty pink mushrooms for your Monday. Hygrophorus Erubescens common name Blotched Woodwax.

Not certain on ID but I think this might be Ciboria batschiana. It was attached to some leaf litter & a lump pf mud. I now suspect inside that mud was an old acorn. #MushroomMonday #FungiFriends

The Hill of Slain (based on J.R.R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion) by Ted Nasmith

Recorded in 1279 as aqua de Heppedene, or "bramble or wild rose valley" in Old English, Hebden Water flows for just under five miles before joining the River Calder. Along its route it passes the historic Gibson Mill at Hardcastle Crags. It is also home to the woodland Lumbhole Falls,

1827 lithograph by Cornillon/Prieur.

#Poetry #Painting #EverdayMagic Nature is not stingy with her miracles We simply forget to look 🎨 Vakilli

The full moon calls the creatures to the woods. Can you hear the call too?