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✨ 6 Years Ago Today: Lockdown, Chaos… and a Basil Brush Song Just for Me ✨
Six years ago today, the UK went into lockdown. And I don’t think any of us really understood what that meant at the time. Everything felt strange.Quiet.A bit unreal. Shops were empty.The roads were still.And suddenly, we were all just… at home. Trying to make sense of something none of us had experienced before. Everyone… Read more
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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 