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Vanessa Knipe
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Malaysian-born, Scottish writer. Recovering Luddite, DIY house renovation, likes canoeing, decorates a mean cake, a highly biased mother.
Mastodon: @VanessaK@mastodon.scot
Website: https://vanessajknipe.wixsite.com/vanessa-knipe
Nostalgia may be a filthy liar, but why did the world get so drab?
November 16, 2025 at 3:47 PM
First decent day (ie not tipping it down) this November, so I planted Lola Cat's rose over her ashes. I'll move the trellis when the ground has settled.
November 14, 2025 at 1:25 PM
1975 was when we discovered I was an illegal immigrant who wasn't a British Citizen and was in fact stateless. My mother tried to renew her passport with children included, as they did back then, and the Home Office said "We don't think this person is a UK citizen."
November 14, 2025 at 10:16 AM
A gentler, kinder world.
November 13, 2025 at 2:50 PM
November 13, 2025 at 2:22 PM
November 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
My latest colouring page, D is for Dragon. I'm having fun making these.
I wonder what I'll draw for E.
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October 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
This one?
October 20, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Same view 2 hours later.

taken from my balcony at 11.30am
October 20, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Season of Mists

taken from my balcony at 9am
October 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
It looks like the next page in my A-Z of British Mythology is nearly ready to go on my Kofi shop.
October 15, 2025 at 3:37 PM
October 13, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Give in to the brain weasels.

My brain weasels just want to draw pretty pictures.
October 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
♫... on the left you'll find my favourite axe.♪

I've added to the armoury at Wolf's Head Hall.
October 8, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Seagull with bag of chips it has snatched. Done in the pictish style. 😂

Yes I'm probably getting a bit silly now.
October 7, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Drew another one of my animals using Pictish designs. This is a fox by the way.
October 5, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Thank you. I've also managed a Dolphin. Which I will now force you to look at because you said you liked my owl.
October 3, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I've been playing with Pictish symbols copied from those carved into Scottish stones and came up with this.
October 3, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Wednesday again so today's #BookQW word is hard. Jack is so sick of being a prisoner.

Last Days Forever.
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October 1, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Season of Mist. Taken from my balcony at 9am.
September 28, 2025 at 10:09 AM
I believe its the law to have an antlered stag's head on your Scottish walls.
September 27, 2025 at 1:07 PM
That's what I call not trying hard enough.
September 26, 2025 at 10:50 AM
It's #BookQW and today's word is idea.
When Jack Foyle was kicked out of the Guardian Angels in disgrace, they sent him back to the point just before his original death, so he could die again.

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September 17, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Today's #BookQW word is POUR. Timetraveller Jack Foyle has just emerged into the Unnamed Tropical Storm in 1987.
Last Days Forever is available here:
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September 10, 2025 at 1:25 PM
This would look good on the large screen.
September 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM