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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
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Nostalgia may be a filthy liar, but why did the world get so drab?
Car Colours. A split picture. The top half shows a car park of cars in all hues of the rainbow and is labelled 1980. The bottom half shows a carpark of cars with only white, black and silver and is labelled 2025.
November 16, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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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.
A cut back rose is planted in bare earth. A white trellis wais to be moved over to support the plant as it grows.
November 14, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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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."
the shadows of two people on a wall. The female one is fading. Text reads: Nostalgia is a dirty liar that insists things were better than they seemed.
November 14, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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A gentler, kinder world.
A screenshot of a post from satirical account The Miliverse. Picture shows Ed Miliband striding past an EU flag. Text reads: Meanwhile in a parallel universe, Prime Minister ED Miliband has just returned from a visit to Brussels after helping push through new EU regulations to lower the price of biscuits. Jan 30, 2020.
November 13, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Screan shot of a satirical twitter account called The Miliverse. Text reads: Meanwhile in the other universe, Prime Minister Miliband heads to Buckingham Palace to apologise for accidentally tripping over one of the Queen's Corgis. Aug 28, 2019
November 13, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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A screen shot of the original David Cameron tweet. Text reads: Britain faces a simple and inescapable choice - stability and strong government with me, or chaos with Ed Miliband. 04/05/2015
November 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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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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A colouring page with a half-coloured red dragon and a tub of marker pens to finish the job.
October 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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This one?
a highly magnified tardigrade play an equally microscopic violin.
October 20, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Same view 2 hours later.

taken from my balcony at 11.30am
The view over the garden has cleared as the sun burnt through the mist. Despite being mid-autumn the greens are still vibrant (probably all that rain) but the acer in the middle of the scene is bright red. Beyond it, the houses of the estate are visible and even the trees on the far side of the railway tracks can be seen.
October 20, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Season of Mists

taken from my balcony at 9am
A garden shrouded in mist. The houses just beyond the trees are barely visible
October 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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It looks like the next page in my A-Z of British Mythology is nearly ready to go on my Kofi shop.
The mess on this desk has been shoved under the monitor shelf and under the fox pencil case on the shelves to the left of the picture. The centre of the desk is clear, except for a single sheet of paper containing an ink line drawing. The angle of the photograph means it's difficult to see the drawing ensure people have to guess what C is for in the A-Z of British Mythology.
October 15, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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The formula for escape velocity. V sub esc equals the square root of 2GM divided by R
October 13, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Give in to the brain weasels.

My brain weasels just want to draw pretty pictures.
A line drawing of a robin sitting on broken spear.
October 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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♫... on the left you'll find my favourite axe.♪

I've added to the armoury at Wolf's Head Hall.
A plain painted wall enlivened by his and hers rapiers (for settling differences a la the Addams family), an enlistment poster for the HMS Pallas (launched in 1804) 2 truncheons, a sword with replica flintlock pistol inset, a replica flintlock pistol, a french calvary sabre from Waterloo, and the new acquistion a replica viking axe.
October 8, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Seagull with bag of chips it has snatched. Done in the pictish style. 😂

Yes I'm probably getting a bit silly now.
A line drawing of a seagull that hads just snatched a bag of chips (french fries for the US) using pictish symbols found carved on stones all over Scotland.
October 7, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Drew another one of my animals using Pictish designs. This is a fox by the way.
A line drawing of a fox highlighting designs from Scottish rock carvings.
October 5, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Thank you. I've also managed a Dolphin. Which I will now force you to look at because you said you liked my owl.
A line drawing of a dolphin using Pictish symbols.
October 3, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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I've been playing with Pictish symbols copied from those carved into Scottish stones and came up with this.
A line drawing of an owl using a style taken from Pictish carvings in Scotland.
October 3, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Wednesday again so today's #BookQW word is hard. Jack is so sick of being a prisoner.

Last Days Forever.
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A flier for the novel Last Days Forever. An angel hovers over a Texan oil field. Text reads: She was a woman, and that meant Momma's rules on no hitting girls—or I'd have slapped her so hard her clothes'd be outta style before she stopped rolling.
October 1, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Season of Mist. Taken from my balcony at 9am.
Houses and trees fade into a very short distance. A bird perches in profile on a TV aerial. The post for the electric trainline are insubstantial, and beyond the railway there is nothing but white.
September 28, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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I believe its the law to have an antlered stag's head on your Scottish walls.
A modernist sculpture hanging on a wood-panelled wall that looks a bit like a sheep only it has antlers formed from light coming out the top.
September 27, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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That's what I call not trying hard enough.
A white sheet with black painted eyes and a mouth looking like a ghost is drapped over a Christmas tree. The white lights of the tree make a spooky glow. Text reads: Go ahead and put your Christmas tree up and just throw a sheet over it for now.
September 26, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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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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A flyer for time travel novel Last Days Forever. An angel flies over a Texan oil field. Text reads: The Texas sun sizzled my scalp from where they'd chopped my hair. Music pounded through my headphones: a Latina singer, forgotten her name now, a Mexican cutie, volume way too loud. The music got into my prancing feet and I hummed along, just as if I had no idea I was about to die.
September 17, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Today's #BookQW word is POUR. Timetraveller Jack Foyle has just emerged into the Unnamed Tropical Storm in 1987.
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A book flier for Last Days Forever. An Angel flies over a texan oilfield with nodding donkeys. Text reads: The overcoat was useless. Torrential rain sluiced down the back of my neck. The jeans and shirt under the coat were drenched immediately. I swear I was soaked through to the bone. Water came down as a solid sheet, pounding on my skull. I struggled through the thick curtain, running into a tree trunk before I noticed I was undercover. The downpour battered through even the thick foliage of the sycamore. I staggered on through the power-shower extreme to the edge of the park closest to the diner.
September 10, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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This would look good on the large screen.
Bagpuss, old catpuss, sleeps on his cushion in an occult summoning circle. Three red candles light the scene. Emily is dressed in cult robes and has a basket at her feet with unusual items. She calls out her poem as if it were an arcane summoning for a demon. Text reads: Bagpuss, dear Bagpuss, old fat furry catpuss, wake up and look at this thing that I bring! Wake up be bright, be golden and light, Bagpuss oh hear what I sing.
September 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM