Rachel Francis
@rachelspencils.bsky.social
Writer from Devon, working on my 3rd novel. I'm also a copywriter and freelance editor.
Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights has proved too much for the movie industry again & again.
as Samantha Ellis writes for
@theguardian.com
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
as Samantha Ellis writes for
@theguardian.com
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
December 28, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights has proved too much for the movie industry again & again.
as Samantha Ellis writes for
@theguardian.com
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
as Samantha Ellis writes for
@theguardian.com
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
It's Christmas. Here's to the tough buggers, the farmers, men and women who work all weather & only come to London when the chips are truly down. They will be back home and out in the yard working Christmas morning, before the presents are even unwrapped.
Government confirms inheritance tax thresholds to be raised
Following a long-fought campaign by the NFU, the government has confirmed the threshold for inheritance tax changes due to come into force next April will be raised to £2.5 million.
www.nfuonline.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:45 PM
It's Christmas. Here's to the tough buggers, the farmers, men and women who work all weather & only come to London when the chips are truly down. They will be back home and out in the yard working Christmas morning, before the presents are even unwrapped.
You write. You write you craft you imagine you rewrite you picture the story in your head, you try to get that picture on the page before it slips away. People appear, you write them, real life disappears and the story takes you ... and now it is something people will want to read. That's the magic.
December 17, 2025 at 9:10 AM
You write. You write you craft you imagine you rewrite you picture the story in your head, you try to get that picture on the page before it slips away. People appear, you write them, real life disappears and the story takes you ... and now it is something people will want to read. That's the magic.
James Schneider/GB News. 10 Dec. Summary.
We've had the same economic thinking for 50 yrs.
It's seen GB sell off our industries, our public services and our utilities.
It's seen the profits of a tiny wealthy elite being put b4 common sense
... life is now harder for most ppl
We've had the same economic thinking for 50 yrs.
It's seen GB sell off our industries, our public services and our utilities.
It's seen the profits of a tiny wealthy elite being put b4 common sense
... life is now harder for most ppl
December 15, 2025 at 7:09 AM
James Schneider/GB News. 10 Dec. Summary.
We've had the same economic thinking for 50 yrs.
It's seen GB sell off our industries, our public services and our utilities.
It's seen the profits of a tiny wealthy elite being put b4 common sense
... life is now harder for most ppl
We've had the same economic thinking for 50 yrs.
It's seen GB sell off our industries, our public services and our utilities.
It's seen the profits of a tiny wealthy elite being put b4 common sense
... life is now harder for most ppl
Within Minette Batters diplomatic response to rumours the farm profitability report has been buried, she makes a point:
"The danger is that these days any government focuses more on the press release than the policy that should underpin it."
"The danger is that these days any government focuses more on the press release than the policy that should underpin it."
Baroness Batters says Gov did not 'bury' Farm Profitability review
Former NFU president says while she is 'frustrated' by timing, the outcome is more important
www.farmersguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Within Minette Batters diplomatic response to rumours the farm profitability report has been buried, she makes a point:
"The danger is that these days any government focuses more on the press release than the policy that should underpin it."
"The danger is that these days any government focuses more on the press release than the policy that should underpin it."
I'm selling copies of my first two novels, set on Dartmoor, at £10 ea for Christmas, to help me complete Book 3. Doesn't include p&p, more at long-acre-rfrancis.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:12 AM
I'm selling copies of my first two novels, set on Dartmoor, at £10 ea for Christmas, to help me complete Book 3. Doesn't include p&p, more at long-acre-rfrancis.com
Reading about impact of climate change on arable crops @dpcarrington.bsky.social
Farmers used to rotate arable crops with livestock to maintain healthy soil ... poor soil dries very fast and modern fertiliser doesn't replace humus. The pressure to (over) produce arable has a place in the narrative
Farmers used to rotate arable crops with livestock to maintain healthy soil ... poor soil dries very fast and modern fertiliser doesn't replace humus. The pressure to (over) produce arable has a place in the narrative
December 4, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Reading about impact of climate change on arable crops @dpcarrington.bsky.social
Farmers used to rotate arable crops with livestock to maintain healthy soil ... poor soil dries very fast and modern fertiliser doesn't replace humus. The pressure to (over) produce arable has a place in the narrative
Farmers used to rotate arable crops with livestock to maintain healthy soil ... poor soil dries very fast and modern fertiliser doesn't replace humus. The pressure to (over) produce arable has a place in the narrative
Sums up climate politics (left & right): "It was clear that Thatcher’s understanding of the science clashed with her ideology. Curbing the free market was not going to happen. Instead, she did what all politicians do – divert attention, with the Hadley Centre for Climate research."
‘I have watched politicians failing yet and yet again’: lessons from a life as an environment writer
Paul Brown looks back at his career reporting on the climate crisis, failed summit and nuclear power – and how to do it well
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Sums up climate politics (left & right): "It was clear that Thatcher’s understanding of the science clashed with her ideology. Curbing the free market was not going to happen. Instead, she did what all politicians do – divert attention, with the Hadley Centre for Climate research."
We may not have oil fields or diamonds or silicon in our hills & valleys, but we have
rich soil
temperate climate
the family farms, skills passed on from generation to generation
Farming is in the 'Evergreen' business sector, an industry that will never not be needed. #budget25
rich soil
temperate climate
the family farms, skills passed on from generation to generation
Farming is in the 'Evergreen' business sector, an industry that will never not be needed. #budget25
November 26, 2025 at 5:50 AM
We may not have oil fields or diamonds or silicon in our hills & valleys, but we have
rich soil
temperate climate
the family farms, skills passed on from generation to generation
Farming is in the 'Evergreen' business sector, an industry that will never not be needed. #budget25
rich soil
temperate climate
the family farms, skills passed on from generation to generation
Farming is in the 'Evergreen' business sector, an industry that will never not be needed. #budget25
Babette's Feast . Isak Dineson.
The first time you read it
When you dont know the ending, didnt see the film
Is a real moment
The first time you read it
When you dont know the ending, didnt see the film
Is a real moment
November 24, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Babette's Feast . Isak Dineson.
The first time you read it
When you dont know the ending, didnt see the film
Is a real moment
The first time you read it
When you dont know the ending, didnt see the film
Is a real moment
Home-made hydrogen: West Sussex farm has a model for hydrogen-on-the-farm
drivinghydrogen.com/2025/06/13/h...
drivinghydrogen.com/2025/06/13/h...
November 22, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Home-made hydrogen: West Sussex farm has a model for hydrogen-on-the-farm
drivinghydrogen.com/2025/06/13/h...
drivinghydrogen.com/2025/06/13/h...
I'm reading Margaret Atwood's Book of Lives/A Memoir of Sorts. I navigated to how she wrote The Handmaids Tale and had to summon Hermes to help her. It's a wonderful book, like a treasure chest, I feel like she's in the room.
November 21, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I'm reading Margaret Atwood's Book of Lives/A Memoir of Sorts. I navigated to how she wrote The Handmaids Tale and had to summon Hermes to help her. It's a wonderful book, like a treasure chest, I feel like she's in the room.
"It’s no use pretending to care in one direction and continuing to destroy in another."
A nice piece on the many different state of minds at COP30 from non western, rather good journalist Waja Xipai
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A nice piece on the many different state of minds at COP30 from non western, rather good journalist Waja Xipai
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
November 18, 2025 at 5:46 AM
"It’s no use pretending to care in one direction and continuing to destroy in another."
A nice piece on the many different state of minds at COP30 from non western, rather good journalist Waja Xipai
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A nice piece on the many different state of minds at COP30 from non western, rather good journalist Waja Xipai
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Reposted by Rachel Francis
One of the best memoirs ever written. A masterclass. manchestermill.co.uk/andrea-ashwo... - And she has not vanished. She has been writing.
Andrea Ashworth wrote a classic of Mancunian literature. Why did she vanish from view?
My search for the author of ‘Once in a House on Fire’ led to the other side of the world - and to a tantalising revelation
manchestermill.co.uk
August 9, 2025 at 8:34 AM
One of the best memoirs ever written. A masterclass. manchestermill.co.uk/andrea-ashwo... - And she has not vanished. She has been writing.
"You don’t argue about the way the farm is passed on. What’s decided is as much for the good of the farm as it is for the individual and that’s the right way. People who see the farm as a financial asset, don’t see."
www.long-acre-rfrancis.com/easy-blog
www.long-acre-rfrancis.com/easy-blog
SAMPLE CHAPTER | The Reporter
Read a sample of the 2nd book by R.Francis/Author
www.long-acre-rfrancis.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:40 AM
"You don’t argue about the way the farm is passed on. What’s decided is as much for the good of the farm as it is for the individual and that’s the right way. People who see the farm as a financial asset, don’t see."
www.long-acre-rfrancis.com/easy-blog
www.long-acre-rfrancis.com/easy-blog
Terry Gilliam on Heath Ledger. Source The Guardian. Sam Wollaston.
Lovely insight into Gilliam's own personal magic too.
Lovely insight into Gilliam's own personal magic too.
"There was no question he was going to be the finest actor of his generation. He had it all, and everybody loved him because there was such a warmth about him. And it was his magnetism that worked on so many different levels ... and just capable of everything you’d ever want of an actor”
October 21, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Terry Gilliam on Heath Ledger. Source The Guardian. Sam Wollaston.
Lovely insight into Gilliam's own personal magic too.
Lovely insight into Gilliam's own personal magic too.
"There was no question he was going to be the finest actor of his generation. He had it all, and everybody loved him because there was such a warmth about him. And it was his magnetism that worked on so many different levels ... and just capable of everything you’d ever want of an actor”
October 21, 2025 at 5:01 AM
"There was no question he was going to be the finest actor of his generation. He had it all, and everybody loved him because there was such a warmth about him. And it was his magnetism that worked on so many different levels ... and just capable of everything you’d ever want of an actor”
The Long Acre 😊 is the prequel to The Reporter. Both books are for sale for a limited period, thus helping me to eat something every day whilst I inexplicably decide to go for it: Book lll ✍️ ... I'm aiming to be at the halfway point of the third novel by Christmas !!!! Can't say no more ...
R.Francis, Author
Rachel is a Devon author who previously worked on Dartmoor as pony trek leader and on the family farm. The Long Acre is the prequel to The Reporter. Order online rachelzzzyx@gmail.com
www.long-acre-rfrancis.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:33 PM
The Long Acre 😊 is the prequel to The Reporter. Both books are for sale for a limited period, thus helping me to eat something every day whilst I inexplicably decide to go for it: Book lll ✍️ ... I'm aiming to be at the halfway point of the third novel by Christmas !!!! Can't say no more ...
Kendrick Lamar & Rick Rubin Have an Epic Conversation | GQ
YouTube video by GQ
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October 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Me grappling with racism, identity, belonging, culture, class
From: Identity Card / Darwish
My father is from the family of the plough
Not from highborn nobles
My grandfather was a peasant
Without line or genealogy
My house is a watchman's hut
Made of sticks and reeds
Does my status satisfy you?
From: Identity Card / Darwish
My father is from the family of the plough
Not from highborn nobles
My grandfather was a peasant
Without line or genealogy
My house is a watchman's hut
Made of sticks and reeds
Does my status satisfy you?
October 6, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Me grappling with racism, identity, belonging, culture, class
From: Identity Card / Darwish
My father is from the family of the plough
Not from highborn nobles
My grandfather was a peasant
Without line or genealogy
My house is a watchman's hut
Made of sticks and reeds
Does my status satisfy you?
From: Identity Card / Darwish
My father is from the family of the plough
Not from highborn nobles
My grandfather was a peasant
Without line or genealogy
My house is a watchman's hut
Made of sticks and reeds
Does my status satisfy you?
I also have some copies of The Long Acre. Summary here www.long-acre-rfrancis.com/otherwork
October 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I also have some copies of The Long Acre. Summary here www.long-acre-rfrancis.com/otherwork