Tony Frobisher
@ateafilledpoet.bsky.social
Tony Frobisher
Poet Writer 🖊
Teacher Fundraiser
Cyclist 🚲 Runner 🏃♂️ Photographer 📸 Vegan Ⓥ
Tea ☕️& books 📚
2 Novels 📖
18 poetry collections
IG @ateafilledpoet
🎶 The 80s' 🎶
Why can't everyone get along?
Be kind, it matters.
We Don't Like Immigrants
A #poem
(Extract)
'We don't like immigrants,
Unless they score.
On a Saturday afternoon,
Oh, hear the crowd roar.'
#noracism #immigration #weareallpeople #bekind
#stopracism #poetry
A #poem
(Extract)
'We don't like immigrants,
Unless they score.
On a Saturday afternoon,
Oh, hear the crowd roar.'
#noracism #immigration #weareallpeople #bekind
#stopracism #poetry
November 25, 2025 at 9:11 AM
We Don't Like Immigrants
A #poem
(Extract)
'We don't like immigrants,
Unless they score.
On a Saturday afternoon,
Oh, hear the crowd roar.'
#noracism #immigration #weareallpeople #bekind
#stopracism #poetry
A #poem
(Extract)
'We don't like immigrants,
Unless they score.
On a Saturday afternoon,
Oh, hear the crowd roar.'
#noracism #immigration #weareallpeople #bekind
#stopracism #poetry
England 🏴 🏏
1st Ashes Test Perth
Australia 🇦🇺 win by 8 wickets
Performance Review
🏴 1st Innings
'Whimper' 172
🇦🇺 1st Innings
'Bang!' 132
🏴 2nd Innings
'Whimper' 164
🇦🇺 2nd Innings
'Whimper' 205-2
England. Woeful.
A Whimper not a Bang.
Blame?
Preparation?
Bazball?
Mentality?
#theashes #cricket
1st Ashes Test Perth
Australia 🇦🇺 win by 8 wickets
Performance Review
🏴 1st Innings
'Whimper' 172
🇦🇺 1st Innings
'Bang!' 132
🏴 2nd Innings
'Whimper' 164
🇦🇺 2nd Innings
'Whimper' 205-2
England. Woeful.
A Whimper not a Bang.
Blame?
Preparation?
Bazball?
Mentality?
#theashes #cricket
November 22, 2025 at 9:49 AM
10th – 13th March 2020. 250,000 people attended the Cheltenham Horse Racing Festival, while coronavirus deaths were rising & countries were in lockdown 10 days later the UK went into lockdown
According to #covid19inquiry a week too late
23,000 lives could have been saved
My #poem from May 2020
According to #covid19inquiry a week too late
23,000 lives could have been saved
My #poem from May 2020
November 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
10th – 13th March 2020. 250,000 people attended the Cheltenham Horse Racing Festival, while coronavirus deaths were rising & countries were in lockdown 10 days later the UK went into lockdown
According to #covid19inquiry a week too late
23,000 lives could have been saved
My #poem from May 2020
According to #covid19inquiry a week too late
23,000 lives could have been saved
My #poem from May 2020
How's the weather in the UK 🇬🇧...
Ah, you know...we had a month's worth of rain in one day last week, the river flooded...oh then it was -3⁰C last night and the flood waters froze.
Bit parky out this morning in #Worcester #ukweather
📸 Worcester Pitchcroft racecourse, next to the River Severn.
Ah, you know...we had a month's worth of rain in one day last week, the river flooded...oh then it was -3⁰C last night and the flood waters froze.
Bit parky out this morning in #Worcester #ukweather
📸 Worcester Pitchcroft racecourse, next to the River Severn.
November 20, 2025 at 8:46 PM
How's the weather in the UK 🇬🇧...
Ah, you know...we had a month's worth of rain in one day last week, the river flooded...oh then it was -3⁰C last night and the flood waters froze.
Bit parky out this morning in #Worcester #ukweather
📸 Worcester Pitchcroft racecourse, next to the River Severn.
Ah, you know...we had a month's worth of rain in one day last week, the river flooded...oh then it was -3⁰C last night and the flood waters froze.
Bit parky out this morning in #Worcester #ukweather
📸 Worcester Pitchcroft racecourse, next to the River Severn.
Like Us*
The immigrants,
refugees they fear
Who they would not approach or go near
For fear they might
just might
Like them
Because they might
just might
Be like us
--
Immigrants, asylum seekers, refugees
We are all people too.
#noracism #immigration
*extract from Like Us (full poem in photo)
The immigrants,
refugees they fear
Who they would not approach or go near
For fear they might
just might
Like them
Because they might
just might
Be like us
--
Immigrants, asylum seekers, refugees
We are all people too.
#noracism #immigration
*extract from Like Us (full poem in photo)
November 17, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Like Us*
The immigrants,
refugees they fear
Who they would not approach or go near
For fear they might
just might
Like them
Because they might
just might
Be like us
--
Immigrants, asylum seekers, refugees
We are all people too.
#noracism #immigration
*extract from Like Us (full poem in photo)
The immigrants,
refugees they fear
Who they would not approach or go near
For fear they might
just might
Like them
Because they might
just might
Be like us
--
Immigrants, asylum seekers, refugees
We are all people too.
#noracism #immigration
*extract from Like Us (full poem in photo)
Worcester UK in flood
When I moved to Worcester in 1986, floods were a relatively infrequent occurrence
Of course they happened But the frequency of flooding from the River Severn nowadays is extraordinary Every winter our city succumbs, regularly.
📸 #photos #worcester in #flood November 2025
When I moved to Worcester in 1986, floods were a relatively infrequent occurrence
Of course they happened But the frequency of flooding from the River Severn nowadays is extraordinary Every winter our city succumbs, regularly.
📸 #photos #worcester in #flood November 2025
November 17, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Worcester UK in flood
When I moved to Worcester in 1986, floods were a relatively infrequent occurrence
Of course they happened But the frequency of flooding from the River Severn nowadays is extraordinary Every winter our city succumbs, regularly.
📸 #photos #worcester in #flood November 2025
When I moved to Worcester in 1986, floods were a relatively infrequent occurrence
Of course they happened But the frequency of flooding from the River Severn nowadays is extraordinary Every winter our city succumbs, regularly.
📸 #photos #worcester in #flood November 2025
You're Welcome.
A #poem to reflect the anticipated revised #asylum laws being introduced by *checks notes* the Labour Party.
A 2 year temporary #refugee status, with the possibility of being returned if the government deems the country of origin safe.
Heinous. #refugeeswelcome
A #poem to reflect the anticipated revised #asylum laws being introduced by *checks notes* the Labour Party.
A 2 year temporary #refugee status, with the possibility of being returned if the government deems the country of origin safe.
Heinous. #refugeeswelcome
November 16, 2025 at 1:14 PM
You're Welcome.
A #poem to reflect the anticipated revised #asylum laws being introduced by *checks notes* the Labour Party.
A 2 year temporary #refugee status, with the possibility of being returned if the government deems the country of origin safe.
Heinous. #refugeeswelcome
A #poem to reflect the anticipated revised #asylum laws being introduced by *checks notes* the Labour Party.
A 2 year temporary #refugee status, with the possibility of being returned if the government deems the country of origin safe.
Heinous. #refugeeswelcome
Is this a piece of your brain?
November 15, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Is this a piece of your brain?
Apropos of Nothing
Lunch. Freshly baked bread, scrambled tofu with garlic mushrooms and baked beans.
#vegan #delicious #nutritious #tasty #veganfood #fortheanimals #forhealth #healthyeating
Lunch. Freshly baked bread, scrambled tofu with garlic mushrooms and baked beans.
#vegan #delicious #nutritious #tasty #veganfood #fortheanimals #forhealth #healthyeating
November 15, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Apropos of Nothing
Lunch. Freshly baked bread, scrambled tofu with garlic mushrooms and baked beans.
#vegan #delicious #nutritious #tasty #veganfood #fortheanimals #forhealth #healthyeating
Lunch. Freshly baked bread, scrambled tofu with garlic mushrooms and baked beans.
#vegan #delicious #nutritious #tasty #veganfood #fortheanimals #forhealth #healthyeating
Fallen
November brought an
End to the falling
And all the fallen
We remembered
A premature parting
Returned to the
Soiled earth,
A permanent rest
Then winter
Came, savage
Wind & cold.
Darkness remained
Yet no spring
Would hasten the
Return of
The fallen
#wewillrememberthem
#remembranceday
November brought an
End to the falling
And all the fallen
We remembered
A premature parting
Returned to the
Soiled earth,
A permanent rest
Then winter
Came, savage
Wind & cold.
Darkness remained
Yet no spring
Would hasten the
Return of
The fallen
#wewillrememberthem
#remembranceday
November 9, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Fallen
November brought an
End to the falling
And all the fallen
We remembered
A premature parting
Returned to the
Soiled earth,
A permanent rest
Then winter
Came, savage
Wind & cold.
Darkness remained
Yet no spring
Would hasten the
Return of
The fallen
#wewillrememberthem
#remembranceday
November brought an
End to the falling
And all the fallen
We remembered
A premature parting
Returned to the
Soiled earth,
A permanent rest
Then winter
Came, savage
Wind & cold.
Darkness remained
Yet no spring
Would hasten the
Return of
The fallen
#wewillrememberthem
#remembranceday
Thought for the day.
Running is hard.
Not on the legs...but in the head. It is hard to motivate myself at times & the mind is always telling me
NO WAY, GO SLOW, STOP, GO HOME!
But it is always a great feeling to get home after a run...and to silence the negative thoughts.
#running #mentalhealth
Running is hard.
Not on the legs...but in the head. It is hard to motivate myself at times & the mind is always telling me
NO WAY, GO SLOW, STOP, GO HOME!
But it is always a great feeling to get home after a run...and to silence the negative thoughts.
#running #mentalhealth
November 8, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Thought for the day.
Running is hard.
Not on the legs...but in the head. It is hard to motivate myself at times & the mind is always telling me
NO WAY, GO SLOW, STOP, GO HOME!
But it is always a great feeling to get home after a run...and to silence the negative thoughts.
#running #mentalhealth
Running is hard.
Not on the legs...but in the head. It is hard to motivate myself at times & the mind is always telling me
NO WAY, GO SLOW, STOP, GO HOME!
But it is always a great feeling to get home after a run...and to silence the negative thoughts.
#running #mentalhealth
A picture that sums up Trump. It's always got to be about him.
A gentleman collapses in the Oval Office and is attended to by concerned colleagues & White House officials.
Trump stands, devoid of empathy, face like cold custard.
#Trump #ovaloffice
A gentleman collapses in the Oval Office and is attended to by concerned colleagues & White House officials.
Trump stands, devoid of empathy, face like cold custard.
#Trump #ovaloffice
November 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
A picture that sums up Trump. It's always got to be about him.
A gentleman collapses in the Oval Office and is attended to by concerned colleagues & White House officials.
Trump stands, devoid of empathy, face like cold custard.
#Trump #ovaloffice
A gentleman collapses in the Oval Office and is attended to by concerned colleagues & White House officials.
Trump stands, devoid of empathy, face like cold custard.
#Trump #ovaloffice
Trevor Baylis, inventor of the wind up / clockwork radio and a myriad other inventions invented many things in order to help people with disability. His opinion on life was that 'Disability is only a banana skin away.'
This transport is a lifeline for many families.
Tice is a ghoul.
This transport is a lifeline for many families.
Tice is a ghoul.
November 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Trevor Baylis, inventor of the wind up / clockwork radio and a myriad other inventions invented many things in order to help people with disability. His opinion on life was that 'Disability is only a banana skin away.'
This transport is a lifeline for many families.
Tice is a ghoul.
This transport is a lifeline for many families.
Tice is a ghoul.
What time would you be happy to go back to and why is it the 80's?
The memories...
- carefree teenage years
- the best music
- shoulder pads and huge hair
- a world on the brink of nuclear war
- the Sinclair C5
- ZX Spectrum
- Agadoo
#1980s #nostalgia #teenageyears
The memories...
- carefree teenage years
- the best music
- shoulder pads and huge hair
- a world on the brink of nuclear war
- the Sinclair C5
- ZX Spectrum
- Agadoo
#1980s #nostalgia #teenageyears
November 1, 2025 at 9:29 AM
What time would you be happy to go back to and why is it the 80's?
The memories...
- carefree teenage years
- the best music
- shoulder pads and huge hair
- a world on the brink of nuclear war
- the Sinclair C5
- ZX Spectrum
- Agadoo
#1980s #nostalgia #teenageyears
The memories...
- carefree teenage years
- the best music
- shoulder pads and huge hair
- a world on the brink of nuclear war
- the Sinclair C5
- ZX Spectrum
- Agadoo
#1980s #nostalgia #teenageyears
Let us pray, bigly.
October 26, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Let us pray, bigly.
Blame the Immigrants
A poem from my 2019 collection, Commentary - Poems for Today and Yesterday.
It feels, sadly, all the more relevant today. Immigrants, refugees, asylum seekers being scapegoated for the ills and problems in UK society.
#immigration #weareallpeople #bekind #poetry #poems
A poem from my 2019 collection, Commentary - Poems for Today and Yesterday.
It feels, sadly, all the more relevant today. Immigrants, refugees, asylum seekers being scapegoated for the ills and problems in UK society.
#immigration #weareallpeople #bekind #poetry #poems
October 18, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Blame the Immigrants
A poem from my 2019 collection, Commentary - Poems for Today and Yesterday.
It feels, sadly, all the more relevant today. Immigrants, refugees, asylum seekers being scapegoated for the ills and problems in UK society.
#immigration #weareallpeople #bekind #poetry #poems
A poem from my 2019 collection, Commentary - Poems for Today and Yesterday.
It feels, sadly, all the more relevant today. Immigrants, refugees, asylum seekers being scapegoated for the ills and problems in UK society.
#immigration #weareallpeople #bekind #poetry #poems
Drop Rents, Not Bombs
A reminder that our defence budget in 2024/5 was £60.2bn
Social Care expenditure was £32bn in 2023/4
We have a social care crisis
Priorities eh?
My #poem
'Drop Rents, Not Bombs' Inspired by graffiti I saw on the sea 'arm' in Margate 🇬🇧
IG: @ateafilledpoet
#socialcare
A reminder that our defence budget in 2024/5 was £60.2bn
Social Care expenditure was £32bn in 2023/4
We have a social care crisis
Priorities eh?
My #poem
'Drop Rents, Not Bombs' Inspired by graffiti I saw on the sea 'arm' in Margate 🇬🇧
IG: @ateafilledpoet
#socialcare
October 17, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Drop Rents, Not Bombs
A reminder that our defence budget in 2024/5 was £60.2bn
Social Care expenditure was £32bn in 2023/4
We have a social care crisis
Priorities eh?
My #poem
'Drop Rents, Not Bombs' Inspired by graffiti I saw on the sea 'arm' in Margate 🇬🇧
IG: @ateafilledpoet
#socialcare
A reminder that our defence budget in 2024/5 was £60.2bn
Social Care expenditure was £32bn in 2023/4
We have a social care crisis
Priorities eh?
My #poem
'Drop Rents, Not Bombs' Inspired by graffiti I saw on the sea 'arm' in Margate 🇬🇧
IG: @ateafilledpoet
#socialcare
Well that was a well deserved warming treat.
Home made vegan harira. Moroccan soup packed full of flavours, spices, a punch of heat and lots of vegetables & pulses. Carrot, potato, tomato, lentils, chickpeas.
Absolutely delicious.
Right I feel ready to run a marathon now.
#vegan #Morocco 🇲🇦 #food
Home made vegan harira. Moroccan soup packed full of flavours, spices, a punch of heat and lots of vegetables & pulses. Carrot, potato, tomato, lentils, chickpeas.
Absolutely delicious.
Right I feel ready to run a marathon now.
#vegan #Morocco 🇲🇦 #food
October 16, 2025 at 8:25 PM
A little timeline cleanse.
4 recent photographs taken in Worcestershire
1. Autumn Colours, Arrow Lake, Redditch
2. Sunset, Perdiswell, Worcester
3. By the Severn, Worcester
4. Avon waters, Pershore
#photography #nature #naturephotography #Worcestershire
4 recent photographs taken in Worcestershire
1. Autumn Colours, Arrow Lake, Redditch
2. Sunset, Perdiswell, Worcester
3. By the Severn, Worcester
4. Avon waters, Pershore
#photography #nature #naturephotography #Worcestershire
October 10, 2025 at 8:05 PM
A little timeline cleanse.
4 recent photographs taken in Worcestershire
1. Autumn Colours, Arrow Lake, Redditch
2. Sunset, Perdiswell, Worcester
3. By the Severn, Worcester
4. Avon waters, Pershore
#photography #nature #naturephotography #Worcestershire
4 recent photographs taken in Worcestershire
1. Autumn Colours, Arrow Lake, Redditch
2. Sunset, Perdiswell, Worcester
3. By the Severn, Worcester
4. Avon waters, Pershore
#photography #nature #naturephotography #Worcestershire
Might skip my 6am run 🏃♂️/ cycle🚲 tomorrow
Mind you decent tail wind
💨😱
45-50mph winds forecast all day
Tea biscuits toast music & a good book type of day
Storm Amy is on the way
Current book Moonlight Express by @monisharajesh.bsky.social It's brilliant
Stay safe
#ukweather #stormamy
#worcester
Mind you decent tail wind
💨😱
45-50mph winds forecast all day
Tea biscuits toast music & a good book type of day
Storm Amy is on the way
Current book Moonlight Express by @monisharajesh.bsky.social It's brilliant
Stay safe
#ukweather #stormamy
#worcester
October 3, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Might skip my 6am run 🏃♂️/ cycle🚲 tomorrow
Mind you decent tail wind
💨😱
45-50mph winds forecast all day
Tea biscuits toast music & a good book type of day
Storm Amy is on the way
Current book Moonlight Express by @monisharajesh.bsky.social It's brilliant
Stay safe
#ukweather #stormamy
#worcester
Mind you decent tail wind
💨😱
45-50mph winds forecast all day
Tea biscuits toast music & a good book type of day
Storm Amy is on the way
Current book Moonlight Express by @monisharajesh.bsky.social It's brilliant
Stay safe
#ukweather #stormamy
#worcester
It's started. For goodness sake...29th September and the local garden centre entrance is already enticing us to be fxxxing festive.
Leave it until December...summer's not long finished.
#Christmas 🎄 👎
Leave it until December...summer's not long finished.
#Christmas 🎄 👎
September 29, 2025 at 1:10 PM
It's started. For goodness sake...29th September and the local garden centre entrance is already enticing us to be fxxxing festive.
Leave it until December...summer's not long finished.
#Christmas 🎄 👎
Leave it until December...summer's not long finished.
#Christmas 🎄 👎
39 years in this city and days like this remind why it was the best decision to move here first to study, then work and live and raise a family.
Worcester, United Kingdom on the River Severn 🇬🇧
Scrubs up nicely.
#photography #Worcester #UnitedKingdom.
Worcester, United Kingdom on the River Severn 🇬🇧
Scrubs up nicely.
#photography #Worcester #UnitedKingdom.
September 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
39 years in this city and days like this remind why it was the best decision to move here first to study, then work and live and raise a family.
Worcester, United Kingdom on the River Severn 🇬🇧
Scrubs up nicely.
#photography #Worcester #UnitedKingdom.
Worcester, United Kingdom on the River Severn 🇬🇧
Scrubs up nicely.
#photography #Worcester #UnitedKingdom.
🎶 Tadej is the greatest (rider) l've ever known 🎶
Absolutely...smashing. As in completely and utterly smashed everyone over
267.5km in Kigali, Rwanda 🇷🇼 & 20,000ft of climbing,
Chapeau Tadej Pogacar. Astonishing. Chapeau
🚲 🌈
#tadejpogacar #uciworldchampionships #cycling #Rwanda #chapeau
Absolutely...smashing. As in completely and utterly smashed everyone over
267.5km in Kigali, Rwanda 🇷🇼 & 20,000ft of climbing,
Chapeau Tadej Pogacar. Astonishing. Chapeau
🚲 🌈
#tadejpogacar #uciworldchampionships #cycling #Rwanda #chapeau
September 28, 2025 at 2:29 PM
🎶 Tadej is the greatest (rider) l've ever known 🎶
Absolutely...smashing. As in completely and utterly smashed everyone over
267.5km in Kigali, Rwanda 🇷🇼 & 20,000ft of climbing,
Chapeau Tadej Pogacar. Astonishing. Chapeau
🚲 🌈
#tadejpogacar #uciworldchampionships #cycling #Rwanda #chapeau
Absolutely...smashing. As in completely and utterly smashed everyone over
267.5km in Kigali, Rwanda 🇷🇼 & 20,000ft of climbing,
Chapeau Tadej Pogacar. Astonishing. Chapeau
🚲 🌈
#tadejpogacar #uciworldchampionships #cycling #Rwanda #chapeau