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From My Memory Box: The Day I Wrote a Song (With My School Mates)
This post is part of From My Memory Box — a series where I open the lid on the personal memories that shaped who I am today. The little things that still glow softly in my heart. The Memory I can still picture it — that jumble of lined paper, blunt pencils, and big ideas. Read more
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✨ ADN Hits 200: Because Apparently I Can’t Stop Talking About The 00s ✨
A fun-and-cheeky milestone from your resident nostalgia queen 💅💖 Remember when I said, “I’ll just start a cute little nostalgia blog — y’know, for fun”?Fast-forward 200 posts later and here we are — still overanalysing S Club lyrics, still emotionally invested in CBBC competitions from 2004, and still drinking Pepsi Max like it’s a creative Read more
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🎃 ADN’s Fear Files: The Dread of Saying My Own Name
There are many things I feared as a child: balloons, certain adverts, and people in giant costumes. But one fear that never quite left me? Saying my own name. Sounds ridiculous, right? But hear me out. For as long as I can remember, I’ve felt a weird, cringey discomfort around having to introduce myself out Read more
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Was Basil Brush Actually My First Crush? (Spoiler: Yes)
I think I always knew my first crush was… unconventional. While other kids were swooning over boyband posters or teen heartthrobs in Disney Channel movies, I was tuning into CBBC and feeling a weird flutter in my chest when a certain puppet fox appeared on screen. Yep. Basil Brush.That silly, mischievous, chaotic little fox with Read more
Asten Does Nostalgia 