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Chris Bartram

@stymaster.bsky.social
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Network Monkey. "If you can't be a shining example, then at least you can be a terrible warning"

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Chris Bartram @stymaster.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Current POV: I am a cat bed.
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Chris Bartram @stymaster.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Traditional September un-cordlessing the hedge cutters.
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Chris Bartram @stymaster.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
...and in his continued assault on my housework:
A cat in my pants drawer.
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Chris Bartram @stymaster.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
You want to use this container to fetch laundry in? Nope.
My cat, disdainfully regarding me from a container of laundry.
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Chris Bartram @stymaster.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It's annual garden tidying time
The garden. Lawn is cut, this is just the start.Screenshot of my phone. In Flames is the soundtrack.
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Chris Bartram @stymaster.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
She is COMING FOR YOUR SOUL.
a very creepy shell doll.
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Chris Bartram @stymaster.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
More cats less flats!
Graffiti reading "more cats less flats"
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Chris Bartram @stymaster.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We came to look around this. It's shut :-(
The Turner Contemporary, Margate.
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Chris Bartram @stymaster.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Unexpected: a beautiful Aston DB5 on Walsall Manor Hospital car park.
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Chris Bartram @stymaster.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
"Repent and be converted"
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Chris Bartram @stymaster.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Earlier, I made sure of sufficient snake oil on the bi-wired speaker cable.
A speaker. Next to it- overly pricey cable with two more conductors than needed.
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Chris Bartram @stymaster.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The important stuff is back in the room following decorating: the stereo, the family heirloom polar bear lamp, and the photo of Meowth. CD rack nearing completion.
A laptop with a now playing screen on a table. The stereo components on a shelf behind.
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Chris Bartram @stymaster.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
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Chris Bartram @stymaster.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
They remembered!
My cat dad fathers day card
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Chris Bartram @stymaster.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I guess next time we go away, Fanty is coming.
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Chris Bartram @stymaster.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
After the winter we thought this yucca was dead, having been in a far too small pot I had to cut to get it out: looks like it's made a recovery :-)
A yucca plant with new green growth.
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Chris Bartram @stymaster.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Repost with the Russian agent that spies on your posts
The Russian blue cat from the movie "Cats and Dogs"
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Chris Bartram @stymaster.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
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Chris Bartram @stymaster.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Home is where the cats are.
Fanty, my girl cat.
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Chris Bartram @stymaster.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
My old boy cat, QT McWhiskers.
A white and black cat ,sat on a lawn that needs cutting.
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Chris Bartram @stymaster.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Spring with added cat.
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Chris Bartram @stymaster.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Spring.
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Chris Bartram @stymaster.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
No, *you* got excited by old diesel engines.
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Chris Bartram @stymaster.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
The introduction video at the Ellesmere Port boat museum asks "can you imagine what it would be like crossing the Mersey in this?" Wet, I would imagine.
A rather time-worn boat stored out of the water under cover. There are holes in the hull.
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Chris Bartram @stymaster.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Victoria Square. Good job it's a damp weekday.
Birmingham's Victoria Square, with the German Market and a Christmas tree.
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Chris Bartram @stymaster.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again? I know how to fit solder-on BNC/TNC plugs. Learnt around 1990, last used c2004 on a bit of thin ethernet (the reason why escapes me, but we only had solder plugs and literally no-one else in the team could fit one).
A solder-on BNC plug.
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Chris Bartram @stymaster.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
It's often said that the old one (pictured here during a strike) worked better.
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Chris Bartram @stymaster.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
I'm going to specify a category of building, using one as an example. Modern apartments built to sort-of, badly, imitate Victorian piles they replaced. For example, this hotel in Deal, Kent, replaced by this monstrosity. maps.app.goo.gl/iMBhkVXd1u2g...
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Chris Bartram @stymaster.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I get to slack off as my supervisor is snoozing.
Fanty, my cat, snoozing on a cushion on the table.
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Chris Bartram @stymaster.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
This outdoor Yucca we've had for well over 30 years was looking a bit sick earlier this year, but it has had new growth and two flowers :-)
A healthy looking plant.
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Chris Bartram @stymaster.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Clearly I am psychic.
Obviously, he knocked one over.
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Chris Bartram @stymaster.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
The boy cat has turned up. The solar lights may not survive.
Mingo, sitting in between solar lights on a garden table
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Chris Bartram @stymaster.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Some very gentle car spannering and a bit of fiddling with fittings and the screenwash pumps again thanks to a Prime-delivered pump.
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Chris Bartram @stymaster.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
I've come for a lie down as my back is hurting. This is my view.
Fanty, a tuxedo cat, sat on me.
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Chris Bartram @stymaster.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Milford on Sea.
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Chris Bartram @stymaster.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
St Andrews church, Foxton.
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Chris Bartram @stymaster.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
He's not looking worried, but to be fair they'll need a big pan.
A largish dog.
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Chris Bartram @stymaster.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Creative cuisine.
A sign saying "dog menu"
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Chris Bartram @stymaster.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
I we to Leicester Cathedral and all I got was a pine cone up my arse.
An odd chair/art exhibition with strategic pine cone to prevent people sitting on it.
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Chris Bartram @stymaster.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
The new chair has been assembled for 10 minutes.
Fanty the cat on a chair.
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Chris Bartram @stymaster.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Himbs sleepy.
Mingo the cat, doing in the warmth
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Chris Bartram @stymaster.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
There are worse places for lunch.
The garden at my workplace today
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Chris Bartram @stymaster.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Mingo is watching birds on the roof.
Mingo, my tuxedo boy cat, staring intently past the camera.
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Chris Bartram @stymaster.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Like a coiled spring.
My cat, Mingo, looking relaxed.
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Chris Bartram @stymaster.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Hands, reaching out....
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Chris Bartram @stymaster.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
It's Baltic out.
The Baltic Contemporary Art Centre.
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Chris Bartram @stymaster.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Ah. Human. You have changed the bedclothes. I approve.
Fanty, a tuxedo cat, enjoying my freshly changed duvet cover.
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Chris Bartram @stymaster.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
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Chris Bartram @stymaster.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Lunch in the sun with Fanty.
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Chris Bartram @stymaster.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Mingo inspects the new kitchen units. I heard a meow from an unexpected position...
Mingo, my boy tuxedo cat, perched in a kitchen cabinet (without a door) at about shoulder height.
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