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Karen Dick
@krdick.bsky.social
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(she/her) 🇨🇦 History teacher, cat lover, avid reader.
#hamont (but actually Dundas)
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Tally Ho.
#HamOnt
From left to right: fries (so good) and ketchup; container of gravy (unbelievably delish) and behind it a small container of salad, a thick roast beef sandwich (with more gravy - the best). There’s a cup of Coke at the back.
November 19, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Nearly finished this. Absolutely fascinating. I love tight little studies like this.
Cover of the book “Consider the Fork” by Bee Wilson.
November 17, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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It’s a really good book!
Cover of the book “Consider the Fork” by Bee Wilson.
November 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Tuppence shares my despair.
Sleepy tabby cat with her paw over her face.
November 15, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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This is Aloysius. He was with me for 17 years. He would press his forehead against mine when he climbed in my lap. King of the snuggles. 🥰
Orange cat snuggling an arm in a red plaid shirt. Orange cat snuggling the ankle of a leg in jeans.
November 13, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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We had that in my home town of Dundas Ontario!
19th century black and white photo of a crowd of men and boys standing next to a steam train engine on Hatt Street in Dundas Ontario. Colour photo of a diesel engine pulling a black train car on the same Hatt Street in Dundas Ontario.
June 12, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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I also have this.
No relation.
#CanCon #HamOnt
The cover of the play “How Could You, Mrs. Dick”. The image is a male detective leaning on a table interrogating Mrs. Dick who is sitting in a chair, wearing a black dress and hat, and holding a cigarette. The author is Douglas Rodger; his name is at the bottom. The author has signed the first page: “December 17 / 2019 To Karen Dick All the Best Douglas Rodger”
April 12, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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We took students to the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge. Someone sponsored a project to create pilgrimage medals like those that were given out in 1936 when the memorial was unveiled by the King.
Pilgrimage medal from the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge. Silver, metal bar at the top with the dates 1917 - 2007. The ribbon has four stripes: from left to right, green, white, blue, and red. They represent the four divisions of the Canadian army fighting together for the first time. On the medal itself is an image of Young Canada grieving for her soldiers. On the edge, at the top it says “Pilgrimage” in English and French. At the bottom there are poppies.
April 12, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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A timeline cleanse whilst we wait for the “Liberation Day” announcement.
#ElbowsUp
Black and white photo of a tabby cat on a fluffy blanket looking straight at the camera.
April 2, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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New PM; new poster for my classroom!
Thanks @mackaycartoons.bsky.social
March 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Timeline cleanse. Doing our best to stay warm in #HamOnt (really Dundas).
Sleeping tabby cat tucked into a fuzzy green blanket.
January 20, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Ah, the week between Christmas and new year. #cats #skycats
Tabby cat sleeping on the back of a leather love seat. There is a bookcase in the background with books, a Christmas card and ornaments.
December 28, 2024 at 10:31 PM
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A tabby kitten on the edge of her carrier. Her head is nestled in a woman’s hand. The woman has a tattoo of a cat’s paw print on the inside of her wrist; her first cat who died the previous July. 🐾
December 4, 2024 at 10:23 PM
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20/20
#BookSky. #BookChalkenge #Books📚
The cover of *The Autobiography of Henry VIII -With Notes by His Fool, Will Sommers* by Margaret George. The Holbein portrait of King Henry is under the title. The bottom half of the cover is a painting of King Henry’s royal progress of 1541.
December 4, 2024 at 8:34 PM
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19/20
#BookSky #BookChallenge #Books 📚
Cover of *A Short History of Nearly Everything* by Bill Bryson. The cover is mainly beige. The title is centred and the letters of the title are blue except for the word “Nearly” which is an olive green. The author’s name is at the top in black. Between the author’s name and the title is a small, open cardboard box. Inside is a globe.
December 3, 2024 at 9:12 PM
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Two of my favourites!
December 2, 2024 at 10:18 PM
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New photo of Tuppence.
#ChristmasKitty #CatsOfBluesky
Tabby cat lying on a knitted blanket. The blanket is mostly white with stripes of red, green, and a Burbury style dark beige.
December 2, 2024 at 9:15 PM
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18/20
#BookSky #BookChallenge #Books 📚
The cover of *On Tyranny - Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (The Graphic Edition)* by Timothy Snyder, illustrated by Nora Krug. The cover background is beige with some red stripes at the edge. All the writing is also red. In the centre is a man dressed in black with big muscles and very big hands balled into fists. His head isn’t attached to his shoulders but floats over his body. It looks like a skull made is a folded piece of paper.
December 2, 2024 at 9:11 PM
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17/20
#BookSky #BookChallenge #Books 📚
Forgive me. This is a hard one. The cover of *Twice 22* by Ray Bradbury. It is a reprint of “two memorable books - *The Golden Apples of the Sun* and *A Medicine for Melancholy*”. The author’s name and the description of the book are at the top. The bottom two thirds is a picture of marked off fields in autumn/winter with some bare trees. The pallet is muted reds and greens and yellows. The 22 is the focus of the cover. There are all manner of animals and faces illustrating the 22.
December 1, 2024 at 6:08 PM
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16/20
#BookSky #BookChallenge #Books 📚
The cover of *Time’s Arrow* by Martin Amis. The cover is white with the author’s name, in black, at the top and the title at the bottom. In the centre is an hourglass. The top is full of golden sand, suspended at the very top of the glass, that is running into the bottom; the opposite to what it should be.
November 30, 2024 at 1:57 PM
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15/20
#BookSky #BookChallenge #Books 📚
The cover of *Childhood’s End* by Arthur C. Clark. His name and the title are bright yellow. In the centre of the cover, a silver spaceship hovers over the United Nations building in New York. The sky is a deep blue and the city is impressionistic in shades of yellow and orange.
November 29, 2024 at 8:19 PM
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14/20
#BookSky #BookChallenge #Books 📚
The cover of *Worrals of the W. A. A. F* by W. E. Johns. The picture is drawing of a young woman with reddish hair wearing a red flight suit with a black fur collar. She has a blue shirt and tie under the flight suit and is wearing white, gauntlet-like gloves. She is holding her helmet in her left hand. She is standing next to a Spitfire fighter plane from World War Two. The canopy is open and her right hand is holding the edge.
November 28, 2024 at 9:54 PM
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13/20
#BookSky #BookChallenge #Books 📚
Cover of *Perfume - The Story of a Murder* by Patrick Suskind*. The cover is mostly beige with the title and author at the bottom. Two thirds of the cover is a picture of a woman lying on her back with her wavy, auburn hanging loose. You can only see the top of her dress, which is quite low cut. The fabric seems nearly see-through.
November 27, 2024 at 8:26 PM
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12/30
#BookSky #BookChallenge #Books 📚
Cover of *The Old Curiosity Shop* by Charles Dickens. Most of the cover is taken up by an image of a large bay window showing all the curiosities inside. The is a grandfather clock in one corner, pictures hung crookedly on the wall, an old lamp and a group of teddy bears looking out the window.
November 26, 2024 at 8:27 PM
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11/20
#BookSky #BookChallenge #Books 📚
Cover of *The Scarlet Pimpernel* by Baroness Orczy. The background image is a faded French tricolour. In the bottom right hand corner is a bright red flower with five petals, a scarlet pimpernel.
November 25, 2024 at 8:28 PM