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Frances P 📸 @francesp63.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Thank you for your kind words. Going to Venice was an achievement for me and I do sit and scroll through my 800 pictures a lot!

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Frances P 📸 @francesp63.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Many thanks. I’ve started to get some counselling and relaxation classes from the cancer charity attached to the hospital where he died. It’s made me feel better and that I can carry on. Thanks for your kind words x

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Frances P 📸 @francesp63.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

I loved it. It’s a unique place and no pictures you see prepare you for the beauty everywhere. I expected to feel odd being alone in such a romantic place but I had a great time. Go! And explore streets and squares away from the main tourist places, ride the vaporetto, enjoy the magic!

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Frances P 📸 @francesp63.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Thanks really kind, thank you 💐

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Frances P 📸 @francesp63.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Me too. Been a few years since I was last there and it looks crazy busy now. But so beautiful still.

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Frances P 📸 @francesp63.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

I thought that too, there’s so much beauty there, but I took a fair few howlers🤣

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Frances P 📸 @francesp63.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Thank you so much. Been a tough year but trying to get out there and take photos again. It’s helping!

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Frances P 📸 @francesp63.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

I think it’s been about 11 months since I posted anything here on BlueSky. My husband died suddenly just before Christmas. It’s been a tough year and I’m only just starting to interact with the world. Here’s Venice from late October’s solo trip🧡 #Venice #travel #photography #sunset #Italy

A photo of the Basilica Maria della Salute from the Accademia Bridge in Venice. There’s boats on the dark blue Grand Canal, the sky is a peachy orange and the domes of the cathedral are white and grey against the sunset sky. The canal is lined with old palazzo’s, many now museums and hotels.

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Frances P 📸 @francesp63.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Because I don’t want or need your email address. Because I am not on BlueSky to gather DM’s or people’s personal email addresses. Why would I? Anyway, enough. You carry on trying to DM and email people. Good luck with that.

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Frances P 📸 @francesp63.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Absolutely not! My replies have been an attempt to help you see why you’re barking up the wrong tree expecting to use BlueSky as a personal messaging service. I have friends and family to email or even speak to properly, in the real world. I encourage you to do the same

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Frances P 📸 @francesp63.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

You’d be very lucky to get someone’s personal email address! Why would anyone disclose that to someone they only know on a social media app??!

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Frances P 📸 @francesp63.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

No, that’s true. I certainly have people I interact with on instagram from all over the world. But that’s grown from comments and conversation on posts, not from approaches via DM.

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Frances P 📸 @francesp63.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Maybe because they see and use Blue Sky for information, sharing their views or their photography, and don’t want anything other than interaction on their posts, not for friendships via DM. It’s not Tinder.

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Frances P 📸 @francesp63.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Just my view of course, but nothing leads to the block button faster than unsolicited DM’s. Especially when stated on a bio that DM’s are unwelcome. And to be honest you’re not really making friends when you message people who live thousands of miles away, you make friends out in the real world.

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Frances P 📸 @francesp63.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

If you mean DM’s by not ‘responding to messages’, there’s many of us on here, especially women, who request no DM’s in their bio info. And don’t use BlueSky as a messaging service?

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Frances P 📸 @francesp63.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Thank you. It was quite a place to live and work for 20 years. I miss it sometimes!

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Frances P 📸 @francesp63.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Many thanks. I chickened out of driving that road and went home the long way round that day! But had to pull over to take a quick shot

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Frances P 📸 @francesp63.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

My favourite drive home from work a few years ago. This road over the Kirkstone Pass towards Ambleside in the Lake District is called ‘The Struggle’. Aptly named. That’s Windermere in the distance #AlphabetChallenge #WeekWforWhite #photography #lakedistrict #nationalpark #cumbria #snow

A snow scene high up in the English Lake District national park. There is a single road leading through the Kirkstone Pass, down to Ambleside. There’s not much snow in the foreground, the moorland grass is visible, but higher up on the mountainside there’s enough snow to make driving tricky. In the distance the sun is peeking through the clouds and shining on Windermere.

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Frances P 📸 @francesp63.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

They were certainly eye-catching! Think the day I took this there was also a psychedelic Elvis on display.

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Frances P 📸 @francesp63.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Yes, it’s enough of a drive from Sheffield, I’d not relish the journey from Cornwall 😳

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Frances P 📸 @francesp63.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Thank you! And yes, I still bear a massive grudge about Brexit. I want a separate passport that proclaims I didn’t vote for it 😂

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Frances P 📸 @francesp63.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

You were very lucky. It’s one of my favourite cities 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Frances P 📸 @francesp63.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Mine too. Always visit when I have a Glasgow weekend! It’s a treasure trove of a place

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Frances P 📸 @francesp63.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

The Floating Heads art installation at Kelvingrove, Glasgow. This one dug from the depths of my camera roll on my phone to try fulfill this week’s #AlphabetChallenge #WeekWforWhite #photography #art #glasgow #scotland #museum #mobile #iphone

In the main hall of Kelvingrove museum in Glasgow, Scotland hanging on near invisible strings from the ceiling, are 50 floating white heads. They are all bald men with a variety of facial expressions; angry, sad, happy, talking, laughing, smiling. They are on strings of different lengths so it looks like a cascade of emotions. |

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Frances P 📸 @francesp63.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I’ve posted on her account asking her to credit it or take it down

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Frances P 📸 @francesp63.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

This is not your picture. Either credit it or take it down

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Frances P 📸 @francesp63.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Sadly they lost 3-1. But they were playing a team of under-10 girls who were just amazing. It was a great match and so good to see kids enjoying the game!

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Frances P 📸 @francesp63.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

You obviously weren’t invited to watch Leyland Pirates under-9’s today.

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Frances P 📸 @francesp63.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Thank you. It was a bit surreal finding this room with all these Buddhas!

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Frances P 📸 @francesp63.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

As the wife to a man with stage 4 lung cancer this was an extremely interesting and important read. Happy to report that even within the pressured NHS we’ve not yet come across a never word being used.

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Frances P 📸 @francesp63.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I’m glad you said that. My husband always moaned about missing Langkawi but I wanted vibrant Penang!

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Frances P 📸 @francesp63.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Thank you. Yes, it was one of those spontaneous Thai things of ‘Oh I need to go to a funeral on the way back to your hotel, do you mind?’ Got to love the things that happen when you travel!

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Frances P 📸 @francesp63.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

A room full of Buddhas at Wat Samret temple, Koh Samui, Thailand. Discovered by accident when left to wander while our taxi driver nipped to pay respects at a funeral. An amazing sight🧡 #AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVivid #photography #travel #thailand #buddha #temple

A room full of Buddhas at Wat Samret temple in Koh Samui, Thailand. Left to wander whilst our taxi driver nipped to pay his respects at a funeral, I found this old rooms crammed full of Buddha figures, carved from stone, no spaces between about 50 of them, and all covered in bright orange fabric. These were draped across their bodies, some with gold sequins, some with garlands of matching orange marigolds.

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Frances P 📸 @francesp63.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Thankfully this came before a day of glorious sunshine!

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Frances P 📸 @francesp63.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

That is one amazing Santorini coloured bird!! 💙

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Frances P 📸 @francesp63.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

We’ve got good memories in Barnsley but this is amazing!

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Frances P 📸 @francesp63.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Many thanks! Best sunrises I’ve ever seen and worth the early mornings🌞

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Frances P 📸 @francesp63.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Must be time for some flowers. This was the last picture I took on my dog walks before we went into lockdown in 2020 and our world’s contracted to those places near home. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVivid #flowers #nature #photography #mobile

A simple picture of pale pink blossom on hanging branches, taken from below so they stand out against a beautiful blue cloudless sky

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Frances P 📸 @francesp63.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

We went for the orangutans but stayed for the sunsets! Then chose to go on to Penang rather than Langkawi, for the Georgetown street art. Back in the day when photographic opportunities dominated holiday decisions😂

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Frances P 📸 @francesp63.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Thank you. Go and stay a few days would be my advice, get the place to yourself early mornings! Avoid the days when 10 cruise ships arrive 🫣

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