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
The Ashes 1st Test
Not yet lost...but
England 🏴 🏏
Bazball - as ever, mercurial & not a little maddening & confusing.
Test Cricket...it isn't & can't always be crash bang wallop
It is not the Hundred
Patience, building innings & partnerships wins matches
#theashes #cricket
Not yet lost...but
England 🏴 🏏
Bazball - as ever, mercurial & not a little maddening & confusing.
Test Cricket...it isn't & can't always be crash bang wallop
It is not the Hundred
Patience, building innings & partnerships wins matches
#theashes #cricket
November 22, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Hmm...England vs Australia in #theashes
Absolute carnage. Some reckless batting from England's middle order...'only' 205 for the Aussies to win.
Off to a flyer with Head. But...you never know with the Beast of #Bazball.
#cricket 🏏 #testmatch #engaus
Absolute carnage. Some reckless batting from England's middle order...'only' 205 for the Aussies to win.
Off to a flyer with Head. But...you never know with the Beast of #Bazball.
#cricket 🏏 #testmatch #engaus
November 22, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Hmm...England vs Australia in #theashes
Absolute carnage. Some reckless batting from England's middle order...'only' 205 for the Aussies to win.
Off to a flyer with Head. But...you never know with the Beast of #Bazball.
#cricket 🏏 #testmatch #engaus
Absolute carnage. Some reckless batting from England's middle order...'only' 205 for the Aussies to win.
Off to a flyer with Head. But...you never know with the Beast of #Bazball.
#cricket 🏏 #testmatch #engaus
Not even 6am and England 🏴 are teetering yet again Down Under in Perth. 🇦🇺
88-6
Starc 10 in the match.
A lead of 200 might be enough. Might, if England can get there.
#theashes #testcricket #engaus
88-6
Starc 10 in the match.
A lead of 200 might be enough. Might, if England can get there.
#theashes #testcricket #engaus
November 22, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Not even 6am and England 🏴 are teetering yet again Down Under in Perth. 🇦🇺
88-6
Starc 10 in the match.
A lead of 200 might be enough. Might, if England can get there.
#theashes #testcricket #engaus
88-6
Starc 10 in the match.
A lead of 200 might be enough. Might, if England can get there.
#theashes #testcricket #engaus
Saturday. 5:25am.
Up early. Cricket on. Bloody hell. 76-3...oh no...76-4...oh come on...76-5!!!!!!
England collapsing. Oh.
#theashes #testcricket 🏏
Up early. Cricket on. Bloody hell. 76-3...oh no...76-4...oh come on...76-5!!!!!!
England collapsing. Oh.
#theashes #testcricket 🏏
November 22, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Saturday. 5:25am.
Up early. Cricket on. Bloody hell. 76-3...oh no...76-4...oh come on...76-5!!!!!!
England collapsing. Oh.
#theashes #testcricket 🏏
Up early. Cricket on. Bloody hell. 76-3...oh no...76-4...oh come on...76-5!!!!!!
England collapsing. Oh.
#theashes #testcricket 🏏
Explain #cricket 🏏 to our American cousins.
'Baseball-ish, except it is more nuanced, incomprehensible, huge set of 'laws,' played between 3 hours & up to 5 days (sometimes without finding the winner)
Played in white or different colours, jumpers & in long format matches, stopping for lunch & tea'
'Baseball-ish, except it is more nuanced, incomprehensible, huge set of 'laws,' played between 3 hours & up to 5 days (sometimes without finding the winner)
Played in white or different colours, jumpers & in long format matches, stopping for lunch & tea'
November 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Explain #cricket 🏏 to our American cousins.
'Baseball-ish, except it is more nuanced, incomprehensible, huge set of 'laws,' played between 3 hours & up to 5 days (sometimes without finding the winner)
Played in white or different colours, jumpers & in long format matches, stopping for lunch & tea'
'Baseball-ish, except it is more nuanced, incomprehensible, huge set of 'laws,' played between 3 hours & up to 5 days (sometimes without finding the winner)
Played in white or different colours, jumpers & in long format matches, stopping for lunch & tea'
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
Test Cricket
A game like no other Unpredictable, fluctuating fortunes, heroics Enthralling, exciting, intriguing
Played over 5 days & with a possibility no side wins Subject to the vagaries of the weather
Baffling but beautiful
It has captivated me for Over 45 years🏏
#testcricket #theashes
A game like no other Unpredictable, fluctuating fortunes, heroics Enthralling, exciting, intriguing
Played over 5 days & with a possibility no side wins Subject to the vagaries of the weather
Baffling but beautiful
It has captivated me for Over 45 years🏏
#testcricket #theashes
November 21, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Test Cricket
A game like no other Unpredictable, fluctuating fortunes, heroics Enthralling, exciting, intriguing
Played over 5 days & with a possibility no side wins Subject to the vagaries of the weather
Baffling but beautiful
It has captivated me for Over 45 years🏏
#testcricket #theashes
A game like no other Unpredictable, fluctuating fortunes, heroics Enthralling, exciting, intriguing
Played over 5 days & with a possibility no side wins Subject to the vagaries of the weather
Baffling but beautiful
It has captivated me for Over 45 years🏏
#testcricket #theashes
I absolutely love test cricket 🏏
The Ashes never disappoints. From the despair of England's batting, to the high of an incredibly skilled, hostile, brutal fast bowling display. Astonishing day.
Stokes gets a 5-fer.
Australia rattled.
121-9 WOW!
#theashes #testcricket #cricket #engaus #sport
The Ashes never disappoints. From the despair of England's batting, to the high of an incredibly skilled, hostile, brutal fast bowling display. Astonishing day.
Stokes gets a 5-fer.
Australia rattled.
121-9 WOW!
#theashes #testcricket #cricket #engaus #sport
November 21, 2025 at 9:48 AM
I absolutely love test cricket 🏏
The Ashes never disappoints. From the despair of England's batting, to the high of an incredibly skilled, hostile, brutal fast bowling display. Astonishing day.
Stokes gets a 5-fer.
Australia rattled.
121-9 WOW!
#theashes #testcricket #cricket #engaus #sport
The Ashes never disappoints. From the despair of England's batting, to the high of an incredibly skilled, hostile, brutal fast bowling display. Astonishing day.
Stokes gets a 5-fer.
Australia rattled.
121-9 WOW!
#theashes #testcricket #cricket #engaus #sport
England 🏏...
Bowling has been exceptional. Australia finding scoring difficult.
Archer has been astonishingly good...quick, nasty, accurate
Wood, express pace hurrying the batsmen every ball
Atkinson unnerringly accurate and hostile
Carse quick, accurate
30-2 after 16 overs.
#theashes #cricket
Bowling has been exceptional. Australia finding scoring difficult.
Archer has been astonishingly good...quick, nasty, accurate
Wood, express pace hurrying the batsmen every ball
Atkinson unnerringly accurate and hostile
Carse quick, accurate
30-2 after 16 overs.
#theashes #cricket
November 21, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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.
Porcine POTUS Haiku
(Of pigs & men)
A question? Quiet.
Quiet piggy, I'm talking.
Everyone loves me.
Napoleon spoke.
All animals are equal.
But quiet piggy.
Ah, the emporer.
New clothes have left him naked,
Look a curly tail.
His snout in the trough
A greedy little piggy
t.r.u.m.p
#trump #piggy
(Of pigs & men)
A question? Quiet.
Quiet piggy, I'm talking.
Everyone loves me.
Napoleon spoke.
All animals are equal.
But quiet piggy.
Ah, the emporer.
New clothes have left him naked,
Look a curly tail.
His snout in the trough
A greedy little piggy
t.r.u.m.p
#trump #piggy
a cartoon pig is looking out of a window
ALT: a cartoon pig is looking out of a window
media.tenor.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:47 PM
The question remains...where the xxxx is Cilla?
My money is hidden under MBS' robe.
@coldwarsteve.bsky.social Chris you have excelled yourself. I think I can see the ghost of Adnan Khashoggi in the background.
And how the blazes did you wedge Persona Non Grata Herr Musk into the collage?
My money is hidden under MBS' robe.
@coldwarsteve.bsky.social Chris you have excelled yourself. I think I can see the ghost of Adnan Khashoggi in the background.
And how the blazes did you wedge Persona Non Grata Herr Musk into the collage?
the back of Trump's hand looked gnarly again today
(Win McNamee/Getty)
(Win McNamee/Getty)
November 19, 2025 at 8:54 PM
The question remains...where the xxxx is Cilla?
My money is hidden under MBS' robe.
@coldwarsteve.bsky.social Chris you have excelled yourself. I think I can see the ghost of Adnan Khashoggi in the background.
And how the blazes did you wedge Persona Non Grata Herr Musk into the collage?
My money is hidden under MBS' robe.
@coldwarsteve.bsky.social Chris you have excelled yourself. I think I can see the ghost of Adnan Khashoggi in the background.
And how the blazes did you wedge Persona Non Grata Herr Musk into the collage?
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
'Golden tickets' and 'asylum shopping'....'illegal immigration tearing the UK apart.'
The incendiary language of Nigel Farage, Tommy Robinson et al. on the far right of public political discourse.
Oh, it's actually Labour's Home Secretary. Just awful to hear this misguided rhetoric.
#immigration
The incendiary language of Nigel Farage, Tommy Robinson et al. on the far right of public political discourse.
Oh, it's actually Labour's Home Secretary. Just awful to hear this misguided rhetoric.
#immigration
November 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
'Golden tickets' and 'asylum shopping'....'illegal immigration tearing the UK apart.'
The incendiary language of Nigel Farage, Tommy Robinson et al. on the far right of public political discourse.
Oh, it's actually Labour's Home Secretary. Just awful to hear this misguided rhetoric.
#immigration
The incendiary language of Nigel Farage, Tommy Robinson et al. on the far right of public political discourse.
Oh, it's actually Labour's Home Secretary. Just awful to hear this misguided rhetoric.
#immigration
@tomcollinsworcs.bsky.social
Would be interesting to hear what my Worcester MP thinks on this issue.
What Tony Vaughan says makes sense. What Shabana Mahmood is proposing is pandering to Reform and is lurching the Labour Party further to the right. Not what I voted for.
Would be interesting to hear what my Worcester MP thinks on this issue.
What Tony Vaughan says makes sense. What Shabana Mahmood is proposing is pandering to Reform and is lurching the Labour Party further to the right. Not what I voted for.
The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning.
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Asylum system in UK ‘out of control’ and dividing country, home secretary says
Shabana Mahmood to unveil new proposals modelled on Denmark’s controversial system
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:49 PM
@tomcollinsworcs.bsky.social
Would be interesting to hear what my Worcester MP thinks on this issue.
What Tony Vaughan says makes sense. What Shabana Mahmood is proposing is pandering to Reform and is lurching the Labour Party further to the right. Not what I voted for.
Would be interesting to hear what my Worcester MP thinks on this issue.
What Tony Vaughan says makes sense. What Shabana Mahmood is proposing is pandering to Reform and is lurching the Labour Party further to the right. Not what I voted for.
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
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
Trump:
(Oh sh*t they're gonna release the f**king Epstein files).
'Hegseth.
Operation Southern Spear. Green light.
Invade Venezuela.'
#trump #releasethefiles
(Oh sh*t they're gonna release the f**king Epstein files).
'Hegseth.
Operation Southern Spear. Green light.
Invade Venezuela.'
#trump #releasethefiles
November 14, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Trump:
(Oh sh*t they're gonna release the f**king Epstein files).
'Hegseth.
Operation Southern Spear. Green light.
Invade Venezuela.'
#trump #releasethefiles
(Oh sh*t they're gonna release the f**king Epstein files).
'Hegseth.
Operation Southern Spear. Green light.
Invade Venezuela.'
#trump #releasethefiles