Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 04/10/2026My haul from Waterstone's Piccadilly before the theatre yesterday. The bookseller told me how much she loved the Becky Chambers novel when I bought it, just have others have said the same to me about the Wayfarers novels when I bought those. 130
Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 12/09/2026New bookshelves! My IKEA Billy were getting very tired so ordered these from Shelfstore and installed them today (totally recommend, the quality seems excellent). Next job is to carry all the books back in🥵 010
Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I do! This is hanging on my wall (with my LEGO ISS and plush pokemon collection lurking on the edge of shot below). It's a copy of an original woodblock print owned by my city's museum. 110
Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Haul from my day trip to Oxford, found on the shelves of "Last Bookshop". Never seen this one for sale as a paperback before, not even in Waterstones Piccadily. @danacea.bsky.social 131
Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 06/04/2026Print I bought at the Eastercon art show depicting Voyager, with a photo I took of my rescue cat Gizmo maybe 20 years ago and three taken of me when I used to compete in motorsport events (cars are a Hillman Imp and a Davrian, both of which I still have even if they never move!) 020
Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Here's Gizmo, who had a very spoiled last few years after I adopted her from a rescue centre. Hope you have a speedy recovery. 130
Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 12/02/2026This is on, so I'll be in front of the telly* for a couple of hours. Must be up to a dozen views, it's so good. *projector screen 000
Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 08/02/2026Current read. Just finished " I who have never known men" by Jacqueline Harpman. 000
Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 01/02/2026Park Royal station, think it must be nearly 50 years since I was here, stood outside with my late gran waiting (a long time it felt like) for a bus back to Perivale. 000
Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 19/01/2026In a break from everything that's happening today, at Firenze airport you can buy Lego from a vending machine. 000
Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Views from the plane, then views of the city, plus an obligatory gelato even though it's gennaio. 000
Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 03/01/2026So I got this thing (a Seestar S30) that makes photographing galaxies and nebulae really straightforward compared to setting up all the components yourself (and importantly taking it all down when you want to go to bed). Here's a couple from tonight, Bode's galaxy (M81, with M82) and NGC 281 000
Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 27/12/2025Very cool present I received for Christmas, who wouldn't want a dragon on their gift card? Currently enjoying cappuccino and chocolate fudge cake in the mezzanine cafe at Piccadily before heading upstairs to spend it! 010
Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 03/11/2025Today's haul from Max Minerva's Marvellous Books near work in Bristol. Nice to find The Vengance by @emmanewman.bsky.social in an indie bookshop. I bought Notes on Infinity based on seeing it in the window so who knows what it will be like! 120
Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 01/11/2025Successful visit to my favorite shop this morning, I escaped having only bought one book 🤣 010
Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Three watercolours painted by JMW Turner during a stay in Bristol age 16. From the "Prince of the rocks" exhibition at Bristol Museum, showcasing these, prints of other Turner works and geology, flora and fauna collected from the Avon Gorge. 110
Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 11/10/2025Just finished this and loved it, it's so beautifully written. Given the subject - life after a global pandemic that wipes out well over 99% of the population - I'm kind of glad I didn't read it pre-COVID. 010
Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 24/08/2025"A ton of #tea " by Ai Weiwei, would keep me going for a couple of weeks 🫖. 030
Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 24/08/2025At Bristol Museum today for the (very good) "Gender Stories" exhibition. Did have an invite to the opening night party some weeks ago but couldn't go. 020
Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Sun is shining, my patio pot plants are in bloom and a pair of cabbage white butterflies just fluttered by when I popped out of my garden office to take this photo just now. Wishing I could be sat on the patio rather than WFH at the moment 🤣 110
Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 10/08/2025One of my all-time favourites as well and I have the same editions. My copies of the four saga of the exiles novels must be 40 years old (eek!) as I bought them when I was 16. Definitely still stand up very well today unlike some of what I read as a teenager. Image from my phone, just now :) 010
Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 06/08/2025While I have a huge to-be-read pile, now I want to re-re-re-read the first chronicles 🫣 🤣. Anyway, here is some real art found in my study, painted last year by "Murals by Sarah" on instagram and facebook (and who I highly recommend). And yes, I do have plush pokemon and dinosaurs on my desk. 100
Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 12/07/2025Here is my plan for the day - #tea , novel, sprawl on the patio in the shade, test match special on the radio. Abandoned plans to go in to the centre for the Bristol pride march due to the combination of sun / heat / my MS. Unlike many I love the sun, but need to remember to respect my limits 😞. 220
Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 10/07/2025If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who or Transformers. I went for the bleedin' obvious choice 🤣 000
Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Day late but here from yesterday evening are some sleepy 2w 3d old puppies owned by the hosts of my ongoing D&D campaign, and me holding one dedpite being very much a Cat Person. We did play some D&D but not as much as usual because puppies are distracting 🤣 000
Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 10/06/2025I was going to say I still have mine, but on going to take a photo the third and fifth have escaped sometime in the 35+ years or so since I bought them😲 010
Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 01/06/2025Happy #PrideMonth , honestly sad that in 2025 it feels more needed than ever despite the progress in my lifetime. (Photo is of what people see in the background if I have to Zoom / teams, and if anyone reads the book titles, yes I do still have my BBC Micro technical manuals from 40 years ago) 000
Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Saw @marycoughlan.bsky.social in Bristol last night, for the umpteenth time since 1988 at the Mean Fiddler in Harlesden. Fabulous gig as always, really liked the arrangement of 'Ancient Rain'. Apologies to anyone sitting near me as I sang along 🤐 110
Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 28/03/2025I would have been 22 I think and remember the video very well as I was still watching TOTP then and it was no.1 forever. No catsuit, but they both look fab the sleeve of the single, which I still have. 041
Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Visiting London today so as usual called in at my favorite shop in the world, Waterstones Piccadily, where I was able buy this and ask @danacea.bsky.social to write me a message. She was super nice to this random nerd too. Second copy (originally bought and read on my kindle) 110
Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 09/02/2025We use a metal whiteboard and fridge magnets for combat. Too many experiences of D&D cat playing football with dice to use minatures🤭. She also went through a phase of adopting the bag I bring my dice and PHB in (pictured here while older sister looks on disdainfully) 010
Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Going to try to stay up for the launch (around 10.37pm my time) #Starship 000
Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 02/01/2025Hand held photo showing Orion with Jupiter in Taurus using "night mode" on my phone. Taken by me, last night. 010
Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 13/11/2024This is a three-legged cat which lives at the hospital run by Animal Care Egypt (a UK charity) near Luxor, which I photographed yesterday. #notmycat I no longer have a cat of my own, my rescue died age 16, some years ago. 100
Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 08/11/2024Very much just hanging in there, on holiday in Egypt at the moment (29C in Aswan). I do have tea, but it's Liptons 🤦. Anyway, here are some pilgrims I photographed worshipping Bastet at the temple of Isis on Philae today, because cats make everything better. 120
Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 10/10/2024Cloudy tonight but just about managed to capture some colour 0131
Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 08/09/2024I am a nerd of a certain age and you've mentioned two of the epic series that really stirred my love of F&SF as a teen. Here's the other in the photo. p.s. always felt Mhoram was the real hero of the first chronicles, alongside Foamfollower, and I love that art. 120
Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 23/07/2024The sofa of sky remote control and self-painted "solar system" mug (showing all NINE planets) Cover will be magnolia painted anaglypta. 010