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Laura Ashe

@lauraashe

Oxford academic. Medievalist. European. Lover of cats. 3am atheist. Easily amused; loud laugh. Never knowingly underdressed. Newish book Chaucer's Ethical Philosophy (OUP, 2025)

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Laura Ashe@lauraashe· 4d

Mum takes a picture of me on the beach. I am the Shadow. I will vanish without trace. The police will never find me

Me in silhouette standing on a beach with the sun behind me

Laura Ashe@lauraashe· 5d

Norfolk coastal path run this morning

Thornham old (?)boathouse in the salt marsh, sun rising behind

View of the beach at Thornham looking toward the rising sun

Boardwalk with pinewoods to the right, scrub, beach and sea to the left; sun rising behind

Laura Ashe@lauraashe· 9d

Occasionally someone will ask "how do they know those shelves are for them?" and as any cat owner knows, that's really not the issue

Two cats curled up on a cat/bookshelf fixed to a wall

Laura Ashe@lauraashe· 17d

Cool Freiburg bridge dragon

Characterful iron dragon posing on a bridge railing against a sunset

Laura Ashe@lauraashe· 18d

You and me both, cup of wine

Eurostar paper cup with wine in it (not pictured) labelled "I am compostable"

Laura Ashe@lauraashe· 21d

10/10, no notes

Cheap advert with a fake photo of a disapproving and slightly scared-looking older couple in weirdly joke formal clothing patched in front of a graveyard. Headline caption: "The Truth About 'No Fuss' Cremations - What Most Brits Don't Know"

Laura Ashe@lauraashe· 22d

I got the backpack out to take him to the vet and he just did this but I think it's fair to say he very quickly very noisily very regretted it very miaow MIAOW

A cat sitting happily inside a cat carrier backpack, blissfully unaware I'm about to zip it up and take him to the vet to be benignly tortured

Laura Ashe@lauraashe· 25d

Godstow Fucking Abbey

Remains of a twelfth century abbey against a blue sky with scudding clouds and sun-baked brown grass

Laura Ashe@lauraashe· Jul 10

Arty cat photo

Gorgeous apricot coloured cat lying in a bar of sunlight on a bluish tiled floor (and, alas, a doormat)

Laura Ashe@lauraashe· Jul 3

St Mary's Church, Iffley. Looks like somewhere in northern Spain

Twelfth-century Romanesque church near Oxford

Laura Ashe@lauraashe· Jul 2

Love Ron Currie. Latest _We Will See You Bleed_ is utterly gripping from the start, as well as bleakly hilarious

Shot of a book page: "Even a quick glance at the classics demonstrates that throughout human history, going home after a long absence has always been at best a mixed bag."

Laura Ashe@lauraashe· Jun 29

Went for a swim at low tide. It took ages to get there and we had to crouch down and basically pretend to swim while lying on the sand. Loved it

Brancaster beach at low tide - acres of very softly sloping sandy beach

Laura Ashe@lauraashe· Jun 27

I have just discovered that UPS have *trademarked the colour brown* and wtaf

Email small print listing UPS trademark property, including "the colour brown"

Laura Ashe@lauraashe· Jun 24

Hot today

A cream cat lying on his back in a sunny basket with all four legs in the air

Laura Ashe@lauraashe· Jun 23

Always time to learn something new

Screenshot of messages:
"I hope your day's going ok. I love you"
"Yes! Turns out if you start at 0730 you get masses done [happy cat face]"
"I mean, I did try mentioning it once or twice"
"I was asleep"

Laura Ashe@lauraashe· Jun 21

I have a number of questions. It's a large number

Headline next to a picture of a ferret: "Concerns over therapy ferrets used to kill rats at UK's largest children's prison"

Laura Ashe@lauraashe· Jun 15

Love a summer evening

View of the Thames at Osney lock at late June sunset

Laura Ashe@lauraashe· Jun 10

Laura Ashe@lauraashe· Jun 7

Me and my cat consider the evening

Cat on top of the bathroom door; I look up contemplatively while taking a cat-selfie in the mirror

Laura Ashe@lauraashe· Jun 5

Gatti!

A dark brown and a cream cat entwined in sleep in a mildly ridiculous pose

Laura Ashe@lauraashe· Jun 2

Me deciding with great seriousness that we should live in Bologna

Me sitting at a restaurant table in one of Bologna's characteristic arched walkways looking thoughtful

Laura Ashe@lauraashe· May 29

Geese and geeslings!

Laura Ashe@lauraashe· May 27

It is hot and we are furry

A cream cat lies on his back in a basket near an open window with all his furry legs in the air

Laura Ashe@lauraashe· May 25

Pick a Bond villain from the pictures yoh already have on your phone

Wyatt the dark brown Burmese cat lazes on a cat bed looking unconcerned

Laura Ashe@lauraashe· May 14

Light was good in Oxford this evening

The Sheldonian and nearby buildings in vivid evening sun with a stormy cloudy sky

Laura Ashe@lauraashe· May 13

HOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT HE WANTS?

Headline "Magnus the wandering walrus leaves Scotland for Norway". Picture of massive walrus.

Laura Ashe@lauraashe· May 3

Gatti in their new gattio preparing to drop an album

A handsome apricot coloured cat and a handsome dark brown cat sitting inscrutably on the high shelf of a garden cat cage looking chilled

Laura Ashe@lauraashe· Apr 28

One of the reasons I do almost everything on the laptop now

I'm holding a pen over a tablet and a normally calm apricot-coloured cat is biting the end of the pen enthusiastically

Laura Ashe@lauraashe· Apr 15

I said "take a picture of me with Neptune" and he totally failed to get Neptune

Laura Ashe@lauraashe· Apr 14

Oh just go to hell

Giotto's fresco vision of hell in the Scrovegni Chapel, Padova, which is astonishing