Cassandra G-W
@cassandragw.bsky.social
she/her
Libraries, museums and rowing mostly
Libraries, museums and rowing mostly
I have lived in the UK for over 20 years and my entire adult life. I speak very little American English unless I mean to. So WHY am I still incapable of remembering how I’m meant to pronounce oregano?
February 4, 2026 at 8:18 PM
I have lived in the UK for over 20 years and my entire adult life. I speak very little American English unless I mean to. So WHY am I still incapable of remembering how I’m meant to pronounce oregano?
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me every day:
Practicing being cool and calm. Look how much I’m not screaming
January 29, 2026 at 4:12 AM
me every day:
I’ve signed off work for the day but I still appear to be trapped at my desk…
January 26, 2026 at 4:04 PM
I’ve signed off work for the day but I still appear to be trapped at my desk…
I’m working on Christmas Eve but the Mr is braving Waitrose, so I suspect I’ve actually won in this situation…
December 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I’m working on Christmas Eve but the Mr is braving Waitrose, so I suspect I’ve actually won in this situation…
It’s just over a week since we had to say goodbye to Liquorice and everything still seems mostly terrible.
September 28, 2025 at 6:26 PM
It’s just over a week since we had to say goodbye to Liquorice and everything still seems mostly terrible.
This thread gave me some sudden childhood flashbacks! I was assured that smiling harder when it hurt would make it hurt less, because smiling releases endorphins and endorphins are natural painkillers!
and I am trying to think of how to explain to this man that I literally DO NOT KNOW HOW to not smile when an exercise hurts
and he was like, “fucking ballerinas, man, every one of them is the fucking Terminator”
and it was the most validating thing anyone has ever said about me
and he was like, “fucking ballerinas, man, every one of them is the fucking Terminator”
and it was the most validating thing anyone has ever said about me
August 14, 2025 at 9:44 PM
This thread gave me some sudden childhood flashbacks! I was assured that smiling harder when it hurt would make it hurt less, because smiling releases endorphins and endorphins are natural painkillers!
NO THANK YOU.
Flying ants: why this year’s mating season could be longer and more frenzied than ever
Flying ants: why this year’s mating season could be longer and more frenzied than ever
Warm weather and wet conditions caused by the climate emergency could trigger huge swarms of winged ants this July, experts warn. But why do they all take to the skies at once?
www.theguardian.com
June 30, 2025 at 5:18 PM
NO THANK YOU.
Had a long chat with Brian Eno about outsider art. Only realised this about a half hour later when a colleague came to ask if I had seen Brian Eno in his amazing coat (it was an amazing coat).
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
June 13, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Had a long chat with Brian Eno about outsider art. Only realised this about a half hour later when a colleague came to ask if I had seen Brian Eno in his amazing coat (it was an amazing coat).
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Well that BBC AI translation was genuinely off putting.
May 8, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Well that BBC AI translation was genuinely off putting.
I would like to have a word with whoever decided rowing umpires should wear white trousers.
May 8, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I would like to have a word with whoever decided rowing umpires should wear white trousers.
Yes, it’s very boring hearing people talk about doing marathons, and I’ve tried really hard not to fall too much into that. But I completed the London Marathon in my nightmare weather conditions and wrapped up the London Classics, raising almost £3k for @kidneycareuk.bsky.social
April 29, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Yes, it’s very boring hearing people talk about doing marathons, and I’ve tried really hard not to fall too much into that. But I completed the London Marathon in my nightmare weather conditions and wrapped up the London Classics, raising almost £3k for @kidneycareuk.bsky.social
Saw this just as I was thinking about settling down for a nap with Liquorice. So that’s decided now, thanks universe!
i hear you saying, wait, does this definition mean that naps are art? the answer: yes. the way i do them, absolutely yes
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www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...
April 9, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Saw this just as I was thinking about settling down for a nap with Liquorice. So that’s decided now, thanks universe!
One of these days we’re not going to have the lovely bin man who comes up the drive for our bin and I’m going to actually have to start remembering to put the bins out, and that will be a very sad day.
March 4, 2025 at 11:52 AM
One of these days we’re not going to have the lovely bin man who comes up the drive for our bin and I’m going to actually have to start remembering to put the bins out, and that will be a very sad day.
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i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there
January 30, 2025 at 12:05 PM
i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there
Well I’ve started binging The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives which may be a sign that it’s time for me to work out a job plan…
January 24, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Well I’ve started binging The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives which may be a sign that it’s time for me to work out a job plan…
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We're going to be planting a lot of trees, okay, so if you see one popping up in your garden or living room, just mind your own business.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
National Trust project to plant almost half a million trees this winter
Schemes at 20 sites in England will create woodlands, wood pasture, hedgerows and orchards
www.theguardian.com
January 17, 2025 at 11:15 AM
We're going to be planting a lot of trees, okay, so if you see one popping up in your garden or living room, just mind your own business.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
I had a real mental health wobble earlier (probably should not have read That Piece tbh!), but I managed to pull myself together and got outside for a walk. I kept tricking myself into going just a bit further until I was to the point where it just made sense to do my full ~8km loop
January 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I had a real mental health wobble earlier (probably should not have read That Piece tbh!), but I managed to pull myself together and got outside for a walk. I kept tricking myself into going just a bit further until I was to the point where it just made sense to do my full ~8km loop
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yeah I have that sinking feeling as I settle in to read another piece about the horrible things that seemingly lovely men do to women that...
...can the actual good men not just take this now. Read about the abusers. Ask hard questions. Come up with ideas of what to do.
Just take it for a bit.
...can the actual good men not just take this now. Read about the abusers. Ask hard questions. Come up with ideas of what to do.
Just take it for a bit.
it's going to sound gimmicky but I think that women shouldn't have to read the Gaiman piece but all men should read it to the end, just as all men should have read all the long reads about the Pelicot case, so many seem to still not realise the extent to which so many men hate and want to hurt us
January 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
yeah I have that sinking feeling as I settle in to read another piece about the horrible things that seemingly lovely men do to women that...
...can the actual good men not just take this now. Read about the abusers. Ask hard questions. Come up with ideas of what to do.
Just take it for a bit.
...can the actual good men not just take this now. Read about the abusers. Ask hard questions. Come up with ideas of what to do.
Just take it for a bit.
Sometimes my culinary genius astounds me.
January 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Sometimes my culinary genius astounds me.
Obviously the most important part of my birthday dinner was trying to get a hot mirror selfie in the toilets.
January 5, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Obviously the most important part of my birthday dinner was trying to get a hot mirror selfie in the toilets.
Here I am sitting on the sofa doomscrolling through insomnia and trying to lure the cat to join me when the foxes decide it’s the perfect time to start having sex apparently directly outside my front door.
December 31, 2024 at 2:49 AM
Here I am sitting on the sofa doomscrolling through insomnia and trying to lure the cat to join me when the foxes decide it’s the perfect time to start having sex apparently directly outside my front door.
Really love to start my planned relaxing gap in employment by getting ill on Christmas. Good work immune system, classic trick. (I’M BORED.)
December 27, 2024 at 12:48 PM
Really love to start my planned relaxing gap in employment by getting ill on Christmas. Good work immune system, classic trick. (I’M BORED.)
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PICK UP YOUR PRESCRIPTIONS
December 20, 2024 at 2:10 PM
PICK UP YOUR PRESCRIPTIONS
I was actually concerned about this when we were moving to the UK, so checked with my mum what time I was born. (Luckily early enough it was still the same day in the UK, so potential minor identify crisis averted!)
If you live in a different time zone than where you were born, there’s actually a real chance that you weren’t born on your birthday.
December 20, 2024 at 8:09 AM
I was actually concerned about this when we were moving to the UK, so checked with my mum what time I was born. (Luckily early enough it was still the same day in the UK, so potential minor identify crisis averted!)