Katie

@dryadula.bsky.social

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Library worker and student. Multi-genre reader. Parent. No genAI.

Close up of the tiny grapes
Myself and Veronica Roth in Waterstones Deansgate in front of books and branded banners with Veronica's new book Seek the Traitor's Son on a table between us. I'm in a print dress and she's wearing a grey t-shirt. We're both smiling.
Selfie of a late 40's woman, head and shoulders, with scraped back brown/grey hair, wearing grey glasses, red lipstick, drop earrings and necklace and blue short sleeved dress with foliage and berries pattern.
A solitary maple and pecan plaited pastry with a price marker saying £1.10.
A pale blue sky with clouds encroaching on the top and right. Tiny bit of a chimney stack to the bottom right of frame.
Me in my twenties wearing a short blue denim skirt, black sleeveless top, a cuff watch and choker. I have past shoulder length mid brown hair with a paler stripe running through at the edge of the fringe - the hair had been darker but at this point the dye was fading. I'm on holiday in Venice so I'm smiling even though I'm stood in front of an unappealing white net curtain, with yellow drapes to the side in my hotel room.
Bumblebee on toadflax! (A delicate pale purple spear ofblooms) Lots of pollen on those back legs.
Bumblebee on a bramble
Buff-tailed (I think) bumblebee in an orange poppy.
Group chat screenshot
Bright blue sky with clouds mainly at the top. By accident I caught my husband's hand to the bottom right of frame, gesturing at something.
Star Wars Insider magazine.
Beach at night, mostly pitch black with a bit of light in the sky to the top left and a few lights from the buildings in the distance.
Two rainbow umbrellas. Blue sky with light clouds. Shadows from the umbrellas on the ground.
A set of iridescent purple and green dice with gold numbers in the palm of my hand.
Selfie with wet hair, big sunglasses and embarrassing blue floral baseball cap sat at the pool, head and shoulders. Palm tree to the right, blue sky with wispy clouds.
Grey green water partially obscured by leafy thin-trunked trees. A little grass covered ground is visible at the bottom.
Clouds from above looking ethereal. Wing tip showing to the top right of view like a whale tail. Pale greys, blues, white and light.
Lego Autumn cottage garden 11372 1102 pieces.
It's a chess/draughts set made of Lego!
It's a sea otter made of Lego! 21366 1234 pieces.
Roof of Manchester airport departures T2 it has multicoloured parachutes with glass drops hanging from the ceiling. A bit like jellyfish.
Stage at HOME, Manchester, UK. Two red chairs sit empty in the middle with the KOOL STORY BRO logo lit up in white on the back wall. Indigo and red lights above.
Lego 72151 Eevee, boxed, Pokémon logo in bottom right, Lego logo bottom left. Eevee has head tipped slightly to the side, one ear facing up and one to the left.
Rusty iron shapes propped against a stone wall.
A head and upper body selfie of a woman in her mid 40's with shoulder length brown hair wearing a blue dress with white flower pattern and grey framed glasses. Small smile.
View of the gardens at Alton Towers. Water flowing down stone steps in the centre of view, mixed foliage and trees, a statue and a mostly cloudy sky.
On the left Stern The Mandalorian pinball table (only partly in view) and on the right Stern Godzilla, full view. The play fields are lit up and colourful.
Ginger and white cat smooshed in a box
A blue sky with wispy clouds. Two thin cables run across the image almost making a triangle. A tiny bit of a leafless tree can be seen on the centre right of the image slightly poking into view.
A small thin piece of flexible, slightly transparent white stuff, just shy of an inch long and around a quarter that wide.
A medium blue sky with hints of cloud at the bottom. Part of a flowering tree is shown at bottom right and a cable cuts through the view behind.
A box of MEATIES cereal with a flexing bear on the packet, text below shows MAPLE CINNAMON MEATIES $14.00 USD
The remains of an uprooted tree lie across some grass and weeds. The bark is stripped from the left hand side and remains to the right.
X-Men pinball table in a darkened room, most of the playfield is in view and the backglass.
A swirling mass of iridescent green on a black background. To the bottom left of the mass is a pink circle with my handle. The strongest, brightest part is the centre right of the shape which is roughly a square sitting on its point.
Midlake on stage at Gorilla, Manchester, UK. Backs of the crowds' heads visible at the bottom of screen. Keyboards/flute, bass, lead vocals/guitar, drummer, rhythm guitar and lead guitar l-r. Band logo in white against dark blue in the background.
Michael Woods interviewing Elly Griffiths, Alice Feeney and Jane Casey at Stockport Noir (left to right). The authors are seated in blue upholstered chairs with wooden legs. Sadly, Alice's cowboy boots can't really be seen. Emerald green wall in the background with an unknown artwork of a child wearing sunglasses, double door to the left of view.
Head and shoulders selfie of a woman in her mid forties wearing a black velvet dress. She is looking at the camera, unsmiling with her head slightly tilted. She had dark framed glasses and crescent shaped crystal earrings in her lobes. She wears dark eye makeup and a caramel lipstick. Her straight brown hair is scraped back into a messy bun. There is a shadow to the left behind her head.
A hardback book with an interwoven ribbon design in red, gold and green with MARPLE in bold white type vertically in the centre. In smaller gold type "twelve new stories" "twelve great writers" "one Agatha Christie"
A whole pumpkin pie, cooked but not burnt, in a foil dish on top of a baking tray.
Text reads Congratulations! You've completed the Hidden Books Game from National Book Tokens. Below is a graphic of a living room with a Christmas tree and a woman reading with bookshelves in the background.
Autumn colours of foliage with blue mountains in the distance. White and grey clouds and a bright blue sky.
A head and shoulders selfie of a woman in her mid 40's with grey streaked light brown hair held back behind her head. She is standing in front of a white and grey tiled wall. She wears dark framed glasses, a v neck dress in a streetmap pattern in peach, blues and white and oblong dangling earrings. She has subtle makeup on and wears a neutral expression.
Grey textured picture frame corner with a couple of little spider legs sticking out. White wall.
Tom Smith on stage with an acoustic guitar, seated, wearing a cap, dark shirt over t-shirt and tan trousers. Blue toned lighting. Accompanying musician in the background, also with acoustic guitar (sadly can't remember his name, even though we were told 😕 and he was excellent). Two more guitars slightly in view to the right.
Pale pink anemones, almost 20 blooms, with sunny yellow centres.
Bright pale green insect with a pale stripe down the back. Between 1-2cm long.
Lego vending machine, red with silver accents, filled with round capsules which hold minifigures.
Lego 21358 vending machine box. Black background with a red machine with silver trim and clear plastic area where the vending capsules can be seen.
A hardback copy of Broken Biscuits and Other Male Failures by Adam Farrer resting on a dark olive green couch. It's a cyan book with the title in black, mostly joined up (cursive) handwriting, with a posing headless figurine in white underpants in the centre.
Large pinkish glowing inflated cat lying on its side in a darkened room
River with boulders in it and trees on the riverside
Ruined stone building with no roof, only walls covered in foliage. The end wall is pitched with six rectangular openings, three at the bottom, then two, then one at the top. Forest behind.
Evergreen forest with a stump to the right and full trunks seen in the foreground before everything fades into darkness in the background.
Suit of armour with black and yellow plumes
A bee on a purple,globular flower head. Fuzzy golden back with delicate black wings
Abandoned house seen from the side, one lower window and one upper, pitched roof, pinky beige exterior with dark red trim, tile roof.
View of Loch Lomond on an overcast day. The water is rippled and reflective, pebbles can be seen through the ripples in the foreground.
Mayhem in the library jigsaw by big potato games, completed, on a wooden table. Box lid and paper insert slightly in view at top of frame with a black pen. The illustration has clues to 101 book titles. Aside from shelves of books, some of the things you can see are a boat with three rowers in it, someone with a castle in a net, a tiger drinking from a teacup, a willow tree, a man playing baseball in a field, a fridge/freezer with a man coming out of it and a wardrobe with a lion and a witch peeking out.