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Asheru

@ladyasheru.bsky.social

UK BTS Army (senior division), retired lawyer, art lover, bisexual but self partnered, carer for my elderly mum, left wing, soft hearted and eternally curious

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Asheru

@ladyasheru.bsky.social

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.

December 4, 2025 at 5:06 PM

Asheru

@ladyasheru.bsky.social

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!

November 29, 2025 at 12:25 PM

Asheru

@ladyasheru.bsky.social

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.

November 25, 2025 at 10:45 PM

Asheru

@ladyasheru.bsky.social

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.

October 28, 2025 at 12:54 PM

Asheru

@ladyasheru.bsky.social

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

Five small jars of homemade quince jam on my kitchen table

October 15, 2025 at 9:08 PM

Asheru

@ladyasheru.bsky.social

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,”

October 14, 2025 at 6:40 PM

Asheru

@ladyasheru.bsky.social

Halloween is one of my favourite festivals. I love all the tat in the shops wholeheartedly and delightedly

A shop display of crafting packs to crochet ghosts, pumpkins and toadstools for Halloween

September 27, 2025 at 1:14 PM

Asheru

@ladyasheru.bsky.social

Night view of neighbours' window

Night view of a house window looking in, chandelier inside plants round the edges

September 26, 2025 at 8:14 PM

Asheru

@ladyasheru.bsky.social

This is proving popular with my friends

Jar of home made chutney with title "Dark Larder Apple and Pear chutney" made 16 Sept 25 and list of ingredients- apples, pears, red onion, dates, brown sugar, ginger, cider vinegar, nutmeg, coriander, allspice, cayenne, salt, pepper, honey, lemon juice

September 22, 2025 at 2:13 PM

Asheru

@ladyasheru.bsky.social

It's been a bumper year for apples, my garden tree is bowed down with them. I'm busy making chutney and stewed apples.

A large bowl of eating apples from my tree on my kitchen table.

September 22, 2025 at 10:56 AM

Asheru

@ladyasheru.bsky.social

I’ve found this version makes most sense to me. It doesn’t have reverse readings so cards are always treated as the right way up. It says the Emperor means “knowledge is the key to success”. When I retired I got a stellar reading which basically said - freedom from oppression, good times ahead!