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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 9h

Getting outside for a sniff of fresh air felt like a win today. 9 days in and I’ve finally turned the corner… 🤧 Although can’t honestly say I feel rested!

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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

(Not all bad I guess…have lost half a stone! 🙄 #pityparty 🤣)

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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A week ago: 4 days of annual leave, 6 days in Italy…Refreshed, relaxed and preparing to come home. This week: 2.5 days off sick with what feels like COVID, but like the effing Directors Cut version. I look at this photograph and mourn the person I was then 😭 #ImmuneSystemOfAPaperBag

Katy and Miles on a cliff top bar last week in Ortona, Abruzzo

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Mark Eames @markofclubs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

…more from Liberty Alice during their first gig outside of Beats & Treats😇 We’re on stage again Friday evening 2nd October at Laycock Cider Barn, Purse Caundle DT9 5DY (free admission however bring cash or card for the bar and pizza)🍕🎵🍺 @katyashman.bsky.social

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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

With a Venice connection of course 👀 Premiered at the Teatro San Giovanni Grisostomo - now the Teatro Malibran. The mind boggles about Handel’s short time in Venice…💭

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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

@milesbsn.bsky.social and I aren't tuning in to Strictly this year, and instead of the Saturday evening requirement to clap on beats 2 and 4, we're carrying on with #AperitivosAndArias Currently prepping an innocent-looking cocktail to accompany a rerun from the Met from way back in 2020...blimey🍾🎶🏛️

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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Enjoy it M&G - you'll totally rock it!

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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

And don't get me started on website builders. On the third website rebuild in a decade...I do like doing things the hard way! Can you tell I'm just looking for a distraction? 😂

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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Had to be rum-based… Here’s the ‘Billy Budd’ 🍹

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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

It's been fun working on this music & am absolutely over the moon to have sold a few already! Always a strange moment when you hit publish & they go into the void!🕯️✨ Thanks to music lovers in the UK & US for supporting us (so far), & of course diolch to @milesbsn.bsky.social for the proof reads!

Practical Magic sheet music under 3 green witch oracle cards. Two candles, rosemary sprigs and a small china bowl of rock salt.

Practical Magic sheet music under 3 green witch oracle cards. One tealight, rosemary sprigs and a stem of dried purple larkspur.

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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Zachary James could read a shopping list and it’d sound epic.

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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Interval report: Glad to have more comfortable seats than in the Coliseum...back row balcony, in 2023 as I recall. Cocktails round 2. Would still love to see a score. Still haven't learned to juggle. 🤹‍♀️🍸

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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Kylie the Opera: Light Years 🍸 I’ll drink to that 😂

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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Venue: Sitting Room Cocktail: Blue Nefertini Dress Code: Pyjamas acceptable

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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is very much in my wellhouse 💧 Penmon Priory crosses, St Seiriol’s Well, Penmon Point, then on to Din Sylwy in search of another well, then a yomp up Bwrdd Arthur to the trig point, and collected sloes along the way. 🌿 Lots of listening, wandering and well... research 😉

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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Ooh, so given the release date, we’ll have contra doubling sleigh bells 🔔😂

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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A MOST PARTICULAR INVITATION You are cordially invited to Bath. There will be: Love. Society. Secrets. And, quite possibly, someone saying something they ought not. Jane Austen's Bath: Love, Society & Secrets 💌 🪭 🤫 Only with the @guidltours.bsky.social app

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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A new @guidltours.bsky.social (guidl audio tour) we're launching tomorrow, but this is proof we take our research VERY seriously (Although we couldn't get Regency flutes and bassoons 🤣)

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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

When I said no-one wanted to see it... 🤣 @milesbsn.bsky.social I think we could take this to our next gig...

A Regency couple, the lady in a long blue empire line dress, the man in dark tailed overcoat, cane and top hat. Probably in Bath.

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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The bassoon 4tet of #EmilyInParis that we’ve just arranged/published is one of the funnest things I’ve worked on in recent months…I just need to persuade @milesbsn.bsky.social to record it 😇 (too many notes for me!) 🇫🇷🥐☕️🛍️

A score for three bassoons and contrabassoons with an unorthodox tempo marking

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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

No one is ready to see the Regency Wandering Winds…am I right? 😅 @milesbsn.bsky.social rocks a top hat though, better than I do a bonnet… full reveal soon! 🎩👒

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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Laurence is coming to Beaumaris on Sat 22nd August ☀️ It will be a gorgeous day to hear some beautiful music - either 3pm and 7pm - (or book for both!) at St Mary's and St Nicholas's Church wyldebritain.com #NorthWales #WyldeBritain #Bassoon #Beaumaris

wyldebritain.com

Wylde Britain

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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Fantastic 🙌👏🏻🙌👏🏻

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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

🙌👏🏻🙌👏🏻🙌👏🏻🙌👏🏻🙌👏🏻

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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Can appreciate 😂📜📜📜📜📜

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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

That’s huge! So many congrats - and to many more! 🍺

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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

(Not strictly tempo markings 😂)

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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Got a lovely woodwind trio going on for this work in progress and am considering both tempo markings to be honest…

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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Going back to iTunes for a bit (old school perhaps, but...) and all the music I've already bought and stored albeit forgotten on a hard drive... so many recordings I rushed to add to the library on first listen, discovering them again is weird, but lovely. This is particularly joyous!

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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I’m sure you’ll soon be on the right side of a spritz 🫠🌞🍹

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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

@milesbsn.bsky.social will 💚 this because…the Maestro of the music from these childrens programmes we love…notably Ivor the Engine (particularly bassoony of course) and the Clangers, was Miles’s bassoon teacher at one point (I love shouting about this incase you hadn’t guessed) 😊🙌🧡

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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

To everyone who has spent the last two weeks (that have felt like two months) navigating systems and IT labyrinths…May your passwords finally work, may your inbox grow quiet…and may the weekend bring no further ‘we’ve identified another issue…’ emails. Cheers to that.

A negroni in front of a TV showing the horrible histories ‘orrible opera showing the composer Verdi

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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

...the Venetian mosquitoes were delighted to discover a walking anticoagulant had arrived...

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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Venice has ruined us slightly. Every time we hear church bells now, we instinctively wonder where the nearest Rio/Canal is.

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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

What a shame, I’d so love to meet you and heard all good things - we’re just in for for a flying weekend this time. Just needed a fix! (I think we’re all addicts 😂)

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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

(I’m the wimp wanting to sit inside in the aircon 😂 btw)

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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

And first time in July 🌅 🍹

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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

At what point in our evolution did we start having nightmares and what point do they serve? I’ve always had distressing nightmares but I’ve just woken from one so bad I feel physically ill 🤢🤮 Why on earth did my mind conjure it up and where did it come from?!? They always start as normal dreams too.

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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

10 years ago today, @milesbsn.bsky.social and I spent a rather extraordinary day travelling around Dorset, giving 17 concerts in 17 churches to raise money for the Dorset Historic Churches Trust. Many of you followed our slightly mad adventure and it remains one of our happiest memories! 🎶

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