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Linnhe Harrison
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📚🪐 Writer - The Incredible Machines of Thinkery.
🏆 Bridport Prize 2024 Short Story - Highly Commended.
♿️ - FND. Lives in Cumbria. Plays uke.
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Venturing into screenwriting with Outpost 9, which doesn’t exactly tick the first project boxes (Low budget? Nope. Easily defined genre? Also nope). 😁

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November 16, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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This morning’s coffee was very pretty.

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A photo of a wooden ‘kuska’ full of coffee. There is a thick swirl steam coming from it and it looks beautiful.
November 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Cat and coffee pic. She is very, very rarely this cute. ❤️

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A black and white cat poses on a sofa, there is a cup of coffee in the foreground
November 3, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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A view of Battersea Power Station sen between two traffic cones My daughter - a 12 years old white girl - holding her hand in a peace sign in front of a Pop Mart visual
November 1, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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London called ✌️

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A concrete wall with the text 25,000 wheelbarrows of concrete were used to build each chimney (Battersea Power Station) A view from the Battersea Power Station Chimney lift showing two boats on the river Thames A London street view showing mews houses Me - a nearly fifty (what??) white woman with very bad hair on a mobility scooter. I am holding both hands up in peace signs
November 1, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Apologies, this is more TikTok than BlueSky! But I’m so chuffed to have crossed the 25,000 milestone on book 3 after weeks - nay, months - of word drought!

Links in bio for books 1&2

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October 26, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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So sorry. ‘Regular’ newsletter my a**e.

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October 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Thank you kind reader, I hope you enjoy your tailcoat when DPD delivers it and Vlieland when you get there. 😜

(disclaimer - am not on the Dutch tourism board)
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A quote about a dystopian tale set in Victorian England appears over a beach scene. Five stars and "Reader Review" are at the bottom. A serene beach scene with grassy dunes and calm sea. Text reads a review praising vivid imagery. Five yellow stars are shown, labeled "Reader Review."
October 17, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Quite possibly what the internet never needed- bad jazz improv in Gm on a ukulele. Trying matters though, right?? 😬

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October 10, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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I don’t really do poetry (through lack of skill rather than desire) but the roundabouts made me so furious I wrote this one.

It’s called ‘Crossing’

It’s for all of us who hate hate.

(Alt text provided ❤️)

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CROSSING - a poem Brush red paint onto any white surface. A herd of opinion. Nothing new, novel. Mindset transparent, and anger apparent. Brush red paint onto any white surface. Negotiate never. Mask all empathy. Stiffening sinews, this hatred contagious. Brush red paint onto any white surface. The gammon machine with its flag flaunted face. Swastika squaddie, the fascist’s dogsbody. Brush red paint onto any white surface. In a world parallel, this herd weeps unheard. Their boats blood and bodies, lining long distant shores.
October 9, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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The post storm colours of our cherry tree ❤️💛💚🧡

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A brightly coloured cherry tree, its leaves varying in colour from spring green through to burnt amber to bright red. A brightly coloured cherry tree, its leaves varying in colour from spring green through to burnt amber to bright red. A brightly coloured cherry tree, its leaves varying in colour from spring green through to burnt amber to bright red.
October 4, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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This gorgeous laal zine arrived today! This is wayside.mag - a new Cumbrian publication full of painting, prose, poetry and photography. Three of the photos are mine, shot on film on my Grandad’s Olympus Trip 35mm camera 😁
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A photo of a magazine held before a boat’s steering wheel. The magazine is called ‘Wayside’ and the cover is a black and photo of Lakeland fells A magazine opened out to show one page of text on the left, and a photograph on the right. The photo shows a dead tree on which an odd collection of old boots and shoes have been strung An open page of a magazine showing text on the right hand side and a photo on the left hand side. The photo shows stone walls winding their way over open fields and there is a range of hills in the background. The sky is heavy with blue and grey clouds
October 1, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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🌿 Taken today on the Lancaster Canal. Nature is so… intricate and beautiful and fragile and just look at those silhouetted leaves… 💚💚💚

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September 27, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Taken myself away for a couple of days on the Lancaster Canal. I’m very lucky with the weather ☀️ I almost want it to rain to quash my urge to stay here forever!

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Picture of me, a white woman in her forties wearing a blue t-shirt and a brown cap. I am at the helm of a boat, on a canal on a sunny day A view over the Lune Viaduct with forested river banks in the background and sun shining through the stone parapets. My boat ‘Strawberry Fields’ moored on the canal. It is dusk and there are warm yellow fairy lights decorating the deck
September 26, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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I’m not endorsing taping animals to walls. But… I do love this new review of ‘Future’s End’! Thank you! ❤️

Cute dog (not attached to any masonry) and posh brew (not easily achievable with a kettle) pics included.

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A greyscale photo of a windswept beach with the text ‘I loved the first book so much and the second book absolutely doesn't disappoint... ...every now and again, something comes along that encourages you to put the kettle on, gaffer-tape the dog to the wall, and absorb yourself in a great story.’ Under the text are five yellow stars and an icon of an eye. A golden spaniel peeking his head above a pub table. His eyes are big and rather sad looking (he isn’t sad, he just knows how to work the room!) A coffee on a wooden tabletop decorated with latte art in the shape of a swan.
September 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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- talking of magical, I forgot to include a photo of the lights …
Two lamps hanging in a shop window, made from upside down books with large copper bulbs hanging between the pages.
September 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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New Bookshop alert! 🔔 The Book Nook in Kirkby Stephen #Cumbria is a little gem (and it’s so lovely to see The Incredible Machines of Thinkery in there!)

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A bookcase holding several books, one of the books is facing outwards and is titled ‘The Incredible Machines of Thinkery: Future’s End’. It has a dark green cover and a large, white, singular eye.
September 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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It’s the season of loved jumpers and beautiful light 🍂 #autumn
A photo of a browning buddleia tree, photographed through a window and framed by a Lego and a Lego orchid. The sun is catching on the Lego leaves.
September 13, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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A photo from a friend who is reading Future’s End despite having strong feelings about me killing off a favourite character in Outpost 9. I think the soup must be resilience fuel.

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A book lies open on a wooden table, next to a bowl of carrot soup piled high with cubes of bread.
September 12, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Gorgeous skies on the canal today. Got back to base just before the heavens opened and wrote near enough 600 new words to the drumming of the rain. ❤️❤️❤️

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An old stone over a canal. The skies are moody, shades of silver and pewter A view over the back of a boat looking at the canal. The skies are moody, shades of silver and pewter Yours truly, (very tired!) white woman in mid forties wearing round glasses and a Kon Tiki baseball cap. I am holding an espresso coffee cup that has been decorated with strawberries.
September 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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To continue my attempts to balance sales with softness, this week’s review of ‘Future’s End’ is accompanied by Sailor Teddy posing with my boat’s ‘new’ (all from off cuts!) curtains 🍓

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a black and white photo of a bleak sandscape. The text reads ‘a historic dystopia with elements of steam punk and horror, and a love story to cling to throughout. I can’t wait for the third book! Disturbingly brilliant!’ At the bottom of the image there are five yellow stars and the text reads ‘reader review’ A scruffy teddy wearing a sailor costume sits on near a strawberry shaped cushion, inside a boats cabin. The curtains are Strawberry Theif by William morris.
August 29, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Today I have mostly been noodling in the key of Dm. #Ukulele #UkuleleSky #Uke #MusicSky

So much to learn, but fun is being had on the way! ✌️
August 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Lovely new review of ‘Future’s End’ and interrupted coffee selfie.

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A five star review of the book The Incredible Machines of Thinkery: Future’s End that reads: The author's beautiful descriptive writing brings you completely into the world and landscapes of the wonderfully created cast of characters at all times. Sharing Nell and Edwin's heart wrenching, sometimes chilling and dark adventure was a delight. Gawky photo of a white woman with short curly hair drinking coffee from a wooden cup. She is wearing a chunky knitted flowery cardigan and round glasses.
August 23, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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It’s even got lights!! 😍 (aka the perks of getting my latest #Lego build from eBay)
A classic red VW campervan built from LEGO, with glowing headlights and interior lights.
August 20, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Trying to speed up my triplets. It’s a killer on the fingers and I currently consistently fall flat on the B flat. Can anyone recognise the song?? 😬 #UkeSky #UkeCover #Ukulele #MusicianSky #AliceCooper
August 17, 2025 at 8:17 AM