iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Spending a couple of hours writing in the Lit and Phil - been on my list to visit for years and never made it here before!

A pair of wooden doors partway through opening. A brass plate on them says Literary and Philosophical Society.

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Andrew Walsh @playbrarian.uk · 07/10/2026

Celebrating submitting a book manuscript to @facetpublishing.bsky.social from @ahaire.bsky.social and I by having a very unhealthy but tasty pastry

A danish pastry with a swirl of cream in the centre, topped with a walnut half.

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Andrew Walsh @playbrarian.uk · 22/09/2026

Said goodbye to Stanley dog this morning after an unexpected diagnosis yesterday meant he had to go quickly. He was a very good boy.

A black dog, similar to a Labrador, laid slightly curled up on a sofa

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Andrew Walsh @playbrarian.uk · 16/09/2026

New 2027 diary as I'm getting increasing numbers of things written in the back of the 2026 one! I do like these diaries, expensive but good.

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Andrew Walsh @playbrarian.uk · 10/09/2026

This has just arrived, an @nlisn.bsky.social mug and nice note, thank you @jofitz.bsky.social it's lovely!

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Andrew Walsh @playbrarian.uk · 09/09/2026

Dig up the last of my Kestrel potatoes today. Still another row of a maincrop potatoes in the ground to go too

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Andrew Walsh @playbrarian.uk · 04/09/2026

Just took a quick break before lunch and picked some apples from the allotment (plus some damsons that someone carelessly left on a tree). Acklam Russett and Ribston Pippin apples. Plus 3 lonely pears!

Maybe a couple of hundred apples and two bowls of damsons. Plus 3 pears.

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Andrew Walsh @playbrarian.uk · 28/08/2026

A card wallet made as a present! Need to clean some little marks off it, then finished!

A purple leather wallet with multi coloured stitching. It has compartments for cards

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Andrew Walsh @playbrarian.uk · 24/08/2026

One apple tree picked at the allotment! Quite a decent haul.

A large kitchen mixing bowl filled with apples

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Andrew Walsh @playbrarian.uk · 13/08/2026

Some apple and ginger jam made today. Lots of ginger in this, which I love!

4 jars of jam, with visible pieces of apples in them

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Andrew Walsh @playbrarian.uk · 02/08/2026

Made some mini suet puddings for when the daughter and her boyfriend come round later in the week. But it would have been dangerous not to try one today, wouldn't it?

4 small plastic lidded bowls in boiling water

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Andrew Walsh @playbrarian.uk · 02/08/2026

A decent amount of blackberries picked this morning! Already made blackberry jam this year, so these will go in the freezer later today

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Andrew Walsh @playbrarian.uk · 31/07/2026

A clip of the first sea shanty they sang tonight xxxx

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Andrew Walsh @playbrarian.uk · 31/07/2026

Saltburn is packed! Struggled to find a parking space, *loads* of people here for Shanties on the Shore from 6pm

Hundreds of people, mainly sat in camping chairs, in front of a stage. The sea is behind the stage.

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Andrew Walsh @playbrarian.uk · 31/07/2026

Oat biscuits with caraway seeds cooked this morning. Yummy.

A tray full of rounded heavily textured oat biscuits

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Andrew Walsh @playbrarian.uk · 29/07/2026

I made this today! Stained glass workshop in Scarborough, so picked a design, cut the glass, fitted it together with lead and solder :)

A stained glass flower with red and orange petals

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Andrew Walsh @playbrarian.uk · 24/07/2026

Tweaking and expanding book content this afternoon in the sun.

A printed sheet of text covered in scrawls of handwritten words in green ink

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Andrew Walsh @playbrarian.uk · 23/07/2026

A couple of hours writing, working on stuff, by the sea. Early tea of fish and chips. Not a bad afternoon.

A beach and sea, through railings. The sky is blue, it's a sunny, warm day

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Andrew Walsh @playbrarian.uk · 16/07/2026

A mutual aid T-Shirt seemed appropriate for a peer support style conference #NLISN26

A t shirt, printed on it is. All we have is each other. Mutual aid.

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Andrew Walsh @playbrarian.uk · 16/07/2026

Hotel breakfasts don't count as proper calories, right? RIGHT?

A range of cooked breakfast food laid out on hotplates for people to serve themselves

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Andrew Walsh @playbrarian.uk · 14/07/2026

Packing *very important* things for #NLISN26

A bag and box full of post it notes, blank postcards, playdoh, and fidget toys.

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Andrew Walsh @playbrarian.uk · 11/07/2026

I was going to do a load of contrasting words representing the conflict between ADHD and Autism, but it's still too warm upstairs! So instead, a cut down idea on my letterpress to catch the idea, will have to come back to it another day.

Letterpress print. AUDHD in the centre. Other text is contrasting words.routine. spontaneous. Familiar. The new!

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Andrew Walsh @playbrarian.uk · 11/07/2026

Why yes, I do have fish on my plate, why do you ask?

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Andrew Walsh @playbrarian.uk · 11/07/2026

Lovely and calm here this morning, cool air too... Very nice.

Sea, a beach, and a pier, from the clifftops above. A book is visible in the foreground.

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Andrew Walsh @playbrarian.uk · 10/07/2026

Another custom letterpress print for someone today. (It was far too hot in my little print room / spare room to do this!)

A letterpress print in red ink reading. Change happens at the speed of trust.

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Andrew Walsh @playbrarian.uk · 10/07/2026

Can confirm that the North Sea is still cold...

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Andrew Walsh @playbrarian.uk · 10/07/2026

Trying to write a few hundred words for @jsecker.bsky.social and Jo Parker this morning in the open air office...

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Andrew Walsh @playbrarian.uk · 09/07/2026

Still coming down from a dentist check up (they stress me enormously), so treating myself before going home.

A hot drink, dirty chai, and a massive pastry with dried raspberry pieces on top

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Andrew Walsh @playbrarian.uk · 08/07/2026

Filled up the pen! Good excuse for a writing break as well as a change in colour, always love the green inks 🖋️

A small chunk of handwritten text, the first bit in a blue ink, the second sentence in green ink. Both written with a fountain pen.

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Andrew Walsh @playbrarian.uk · 08/07/2026

Trying to write a bit more outside this afternoon, but I appear to be melting....

A notebook covered in barely legible handwriting, on top of my short covered legs in the sun.

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Andrew Walsh @playbrarian.uk · 06/07/2026

Just spent the last hour making a custom letterpress print ordered by someone yesterday evening. A few days to dry, then into the post it goes!

A letterpress print on A5 handmade paper, next to the blocks used to print it. Well, we're here now.

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Andrew Walsh @playbrarian.uk · 01/07/2026

My hidden creature wrapped in shadow #PlayLearn26

Black tissue paper in the shape of a square

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Andrew Walsh @playbrarian.uk · 30/06/2026

I didn't even think you could milk robots?

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Andrew Walsh @playbrarian.uk · 28/06/2026

Woah! I shouldn't go to this, but I want to. Puddings are fab.

A picture of people sharing a dessert. Redcar dessert festival. Saturday 18th July and Sunday 19th July. Enjoy this delicious festival celebrating puddings from around the world on Redcar High Street.

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Andrew Walsh @playbrarian.uk · 26/06/2026

Only if you make them dress like Sarah the AI bot from Harry Hill, to make it funnier?

Harry Hill sat next to Sarah the AI bot on a park bench. Sarah looks like she has silver pipes for legs and a box covered in silver foil for a body. There is a slot towards the top of Sarah's body that looks just the right width for a twix.

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Andrew Walsh @playbrarian.uk · 26/06/2026

A bird off to Glasgow! About 8 hours flying 🦉 Take *that* instant messaging!

A map of Northern England and Southern Scotland with a line showing the path of flight for a virtual bird.

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Andrew Walsh @playbrarian.uk · 24/06/2026

Fridge, freezer, and control (worktop)!

3 clear bags, each with 3 jelly babies inside

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Andrew Walsh @playbrarian.uk · 24/06/2026

Had an urge for poached eggs this morning! Yummy.

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Andrew Walsh @playbrarian.uk · 23/06/2026

My current view, from the top of Roseberry Topping.

A view over green fields, the sea just visible in the distance, taken from on high, with the stones of the hill top in the foreground.

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Andrew Walsh @playbrarian.uk · 12/06/2026

They didn't like the typeface, wanted something plainer, so did it again in a "grot" typeface...

Plain, blocky text letterpress printed. How's that noisy?

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Andrew Walsh @playbrarian.uk · 10/06/2026

Just had a couple of hours in York with the lad so I could go to Toppings bookshop! Bonus, I'd forgotten the poetry pharmacy had opened up there too.

A stone shop front with Toppings Bookshop sign

A bright red shop front with large glass windows. The Poetry pharmacy

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Andrew Walsh @playbrarian.uk · 10/06/2026

Someone ordered a custom letterpress print today, so here is the first proof! Using nice new wooden "Mansard" type I bought last year :)

A letterpress print, black text on a textured white paper, with the print laid on top of the cast iron press. How's that noisy?

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Andrew Walsh @playbrarian.uk · 04/06/2026

Currently without a desk because the 20year old has been building his present from the Lego House in Billund!

A Lego model of various landmarks in Billund, including the Lego House, Lego Land, the airport, and the original Lego workshop

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Andrew Walsh @playbrarian.uk · 01/06/2026

Settling in for a recording of ISIHAC!

A stage with 6 seats behind tables, with BBC Radio 4 branding and I'm sorry I haven't a Clue on the front of the tables.

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Andrew Walsh @playbrarian.uk · 26/05/2026

Notebook out, let's see if I can get some writing done in today's office...

A sandy beach and calm blue sea, with promenade railings in the foreground, a pier and cliffs in the background.

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Andrew Walsh @playbrarian.uk · 24/05/2026

Lego sorted and packed up for Intro to Lego Serious Play (online) workshop! Will start posting this out on Tuesday... LegoJune2026.eventbrite.co.uk

A pile of Jiffy bags with a plastic Lego container peaking out of the centre of them

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Andrew Walsh @playbrarian.uk · 16/05/2026

Tiny batch of rhubarb & ginger jam made, just to last until it's time for blackberry jam again!

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Andrew Walsh @playbrarian.uk · 13/05/2026

At the Louvre with ridiculously long queues to get in!

The pyramid at the Louvre. A large glass pyramid surrounded by impressive stone buildings

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Andrew Walsh @playbrarian.uk · 08/05/2026

Megan Lotts, who couldn't make it to Counterplay this year, sent a boxful of zines for us all! Arrived this morning just in time to hand out to everyone :)

A bright pink covered booklet with the title Play Zine

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Andrew Walsh @playbrarian.uk · 06/05/2026

Kolding achieved! Checked into the hotel and apparently they leave cake out every afternoon on the ground floor. That'll do.

A plate of small pieces of cake. Looks like chocolate brownies, some with fancy jam like stuff on top. Oh, and some fruit in a bowl, mainly oranges.

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