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Asheru @ladyasheru.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I met an excellent Griffin in the grounds of Downing College today

Stone statue of a Griffin in the grounds of Downing College Cambridge

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Asheru @ladyasheru.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Rain at last in Cambridge after a long dry summer!

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Asheru @ladyasheru.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Visiting mum in hospital today. A nurse stopped me and said mum had been singing to her this morning...something by a band the nurse had never heard of. "Ah! That will be BTS...the biggest band on the planet...look them up!" I replied.

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Asheru @ladyasheru.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Ah, heatwave in England and portable aircon units are harder to buy than BTS tickets....

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Asheru @ladyasheru.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

My mother said “You have already seen BTS live, why would you want to again?” I replied “That’s like saying - you already have a book, why would you want another one?”

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Asheru @ladyasheru.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

What does one wear for a tea date with the woman who broke your heart 40 years ago and is now happily married to a super successful woman. I'm thinking combat dungarees....

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Asheru @ladyasheru.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Mercy! I hate hot weather!!

Screenshot of BBC weather showing freakishly high temperatures for Cambridge UK currently

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Asheru @ladyasheru.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I listen to BBC radio 3 unwind when cooking supper. Last night the softly spoken Irish presenter said the last 5 years have been hell for everyone and if you are not your perfect self at least you survived.

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Asheru @ladyasheru.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Late sunlight falls on The patio, a bar code For summer to come

My garden patio with dappled sunlight looking like a bar code

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Asheru @ladyasheru.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I am making progress on the gardening front. My gardening app now says "This plant looks healthy!" more often than "This plant needs attention/is deceased..."

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Asheru @ladyasheru.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I wish I could say that getting C-19 booster shots gets easier but it really doesn’t. Have to remind myself that it’s a positive thing my body is throwing hands.

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Asheru @ladyasheru.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Thinking back fondly to blonde JK

Photo of BTS Jungkook with blonde hair and blue suit from around 2019 maybe?

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Asheru @ladyasheru.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Spring haiku My friends are buying houses, moving countries and Taking new lovers I rake last winter's Leaves from the garden, listen To the birds singing

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Asheru @ladyasheru.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Watching a BTS concert online with my group chat homies is my definition of absolute joy. Love you 1000!

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Asheru @ladyasheru.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Ah, Prince I miss you still youtu.be/-WYYlRArn3g?...

youtu.be

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Asheru @ladyasheru.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Neighbourly haiku I am fond of my neighbours When their lights come on I rest knowing all is well

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Asheru @ladyasheru.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I heard on the news today that honey bees tailor their waggle dances showing where to find nectar to the size of the audience: small audience, small movements; large audience bigger movements. This made me think of BTS playing on small stages and then in stadia. I think I may be obsessed 😂😅

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Asheru @ladyasheru.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I think I may be the only person on the planet who does not know about Sinners - a friend sent me this clip and I thought it was amazing, the way it visually shows musical influences developing over time. youtu.be/S7jo5Cr6WUA?...

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Sinners | I Lied To You Song | Movie Clip | Warner Bros. Entertainment

YouTube video by Warner Bros. Entertainment

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Asheru @ladyasheru.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

BTS Arirang concert was the best thing I have ever seen on Netflix! Worth the subscription just for this! And the fact you could instantly replay it is amazing!

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Asheru @ladyasheru.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

I was so caught up in BTS stuff yesterday I missed that it was also the spring equinox here. Happy spring everybody!

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Asheru @ladyasheru.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I really love BTS's new album but I feel so sad RM has sprained his ankle, he and all of them have been working so hard! Get better soon RM!

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Asheru @ladyasheru.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I am at that age where most of my friends are doing battle with really challenging health issues, whilst also trying to care for the generations above and below. It’s rough. I’m grateful for any glimmers of happiness in my day.

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Asheru @ladyasheru.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Housework haiku It’s midnight and my gift to my future self is washing the dishes

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Asheru @ladyasheru.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

I love stuff like this but whenever I try to catch it there is heavy cloud/fog/rain....

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Asheru @ladyasheru.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

I dislike Valentine's day intensely but it's hard to stay grouchy when there is actual sunshine today, after biblical levels of rain since Christmas!

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Asheru @ladyasheru.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Found this little fellow drying its wings after rain outside my house today

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Asheru @ladyasheru.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

This is how I feel about not being able to try to get tickets for the BTS tour because of my caring responsibilities… youtu.be/azTuj49vXgk

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Cats Who Desperately Want to Come Inside

YouTube video by CrazyFunnyStuffCFS

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Asheru @ladyasheru.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

It’s the time of year when my news app is full of diet plans. I thought fondly of this old quote

Screenshot of a 2013 Night Vale tweet saying “Get the body you’ve always wanted. We know where it’s buried and can lend you a shovel.”

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Asheru @ladyasheru.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

They already have Easter eggs on the shelves in Poundland…

Photograph of shelves in my local Poundland store with chocolate Easter eggs. Today is 27 December.

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Asheru @ladyasheru.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Today's haiku inspired by cleaning a huge paper lampshade from my mother's room, on the front doorstep Moon paper lantern I shake the dust in the breeze Snow falls on the steps

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Asheru @ladyasheru.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

It may be a blessing that age verification by facial scan does not tell me what they estimate my incredibly ancient age to be….😹

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Asheru @ladyasheru.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Ah, LiveJournal, those were the days. I downloaded my whole journal into a pdf when the Russians took it over.

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Asheru @ladyasheru.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Late at night when your heart is hollow there is nothing better than a sour dough toastie with melted cheese.

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Asheru @ladyasheru.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Sometimes my phone throws random photos from my files at me. This was today’s.

Namjoon and Hobi looking cosy on a sofa, dressed in dark silks.

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Asheru @ladyasheru.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Next door's cat appears to be levitating looking at the rain...

Photo of a cat sitting on a ledge half way up a window looking out at the rain. It appears to be levitating!

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Asheru @ladyasheru.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

As the winter takes hold I am fortified by this. Not sure about no.19 for me personally but I definitely agree with no. 4.

Text of a letter written in 1820 by Sydney Smith to a friend giving advice on how to overcome low spirits:

Dear Lady Georgiana,
Nobody has suffered more from low spirits than I have done-so I feel for you.
1st. Live as well as you dare.
2nd. Go into the shower-bath with a small quantity of water at a temperature low enough to give you a slight sensation of cold, 75° or 80°
3rd. Amusing books.
4th. Short views of human life-not further than dinner or tea.
5th. Be as busy as you can.
6th. See as much as you can of those friends who respect and like you.
7th. And of those acquaintances who amuse you.
8th. Make no secret of low spirits to your friends, but talk of them freely-they are always worse for dignified concealment.
9th. Attend to the effects tea and coffee produce upon you.
10th. Compare your lot with that of other people.
11th. Don't expect too much from human life-a sorry business at the best.
12th. Avoid poetry, dramatic representations (except comedy), music, serious novels, melancholy sentimental people, and everything likely to excite feeling or emotion not ending in active benevolence.
13th. Do good, and endeavour to please everybody of every degree.
14th. Be as much as you can in the open air without fatigue.
15th. Make the room where you commonly sit, gay and pleasant.
16th. Struggle by little and little against idleness.
17th. Don't be too severe upon yourself, or underrate yourself, but do yourself justice.
18th. Keep good blazing fires.
19th. Be firm and constant in the exercise of rational religion.
20th. Believe me, dear Georgiana, your devoted servant, Sydney Smith.

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Asheru @ladyasheru.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Today's haiku: Winter, potatoes Frying on the hob sing and Cackle like spring birds

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Asheru @ladyasheru.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Some of our neighbours have really gone to town with their Halloween decorations this year!

Exterior of a house decorated for Halloween with a skeleton in the window, giant spider on the wall, pumpkins amd fake cobwebs over their railings.

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Asheru @ladyasheru.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

I sold my old car this weekend. Now mum is very frail I hardly leave the house at all. First time in 35 years I have been without a car! Strangely liberating.

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Asheru @ladyasheru.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Quince jam. It takes a lot of effort to make but tastes amazing!

Five small jars of homemade quince jam on my kitchen table

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Asheru @ladyasheru.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

I find when I am particularly stressed that I can only bear to read stories, watch films, read emails that I have read before so there are no surprises.

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Asheru @ladyasheru.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

This wins the biscuit for most delightfully unhinged description of a perfume sample

Photo of a perfume sample from the Royal Academy of Arts London described as “evoking a wood panelled room, infused with a century and a half of subtle laughter and rich tobacco smoke, dressed up for the evening with abundant Indian tuberose flowers that create an irresistible tension,”

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Asheru @ladyasheru.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

I'm currently simmering quinces from my neighbour's tree with lemon zest and they smell amazing.

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