But there is another side to Woodman that isn’t often acknowledged: her sense of irony, humour and tongue-in-cheek performance. “I remember Francesca’s sense of humour very strongly,” her father says. “She was a lively conversationalist. Irony and comic characterisation of other people were part of her speech. I remember going around Florence when she was 10 or 11, and she would notice the absurd. If we went to a butcher’s shop, she would notice if the butcher had a face that looked like a lamb, say, and was there carving up lamb meat. She was always looking for the absurd and responding to it.”