Matt Gibson

@gothick.bsky.social

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Programmer. Photographer. Ambulomancer. Occasional amateur occult researcher. Non erratum sed designatum. #Bristol

Alistair MacLean’s Ice Station Zebra, Companion Book Club edition, 1964.
A box marked LIVE BEES PLEASE LEAVE ALONE surrounded by, er, bees.
My five passports, from the earliest, the old-fashioned hardcover British passport with so-blue-it's-amost-black colouring, through three burgundy European Union passports, and back to the latest variation of the new softcover blackish-blue non-EU British Passport
Four normal carrots. And one less traditionally-shaped one.
Reddit meme "you vs. the guy she tell you not to worry about" featuring Wells and Hotwells.
The heel-tap of a Vedett
Another #Bristol Birdman contestant takes to the skies.
The UWE team launches their Bristol Birdman vehicle…
Ducklings dabbling through spume at Chew Valley Lake, #Bristol
A line of ducklings + mum, Chew Valley Lake
The Clifton Suspension Bridge on a very grey day
Cumberland Basin causeway
Portishead Lido
The 1971 London Weekend Television logo just about to dissolve into an episode of The Guardians.
Edwin Drood, featuring Roy Pilgrim on electric fiddle.
Sally, of the Bag of Nails in Bristol, with added halo
Cherry picker on floating platform approaching Entrance Lock in Bristol.
Bristol's Shot Tower looms over the harbourside.
The forward flag of Bristol Ferry Boat's Brigantia on the floating harbour with Cliftonwood as the backdrop
The Avon Fire & Rescue boat speeds east along the harbour between Castle Bridge and St Philips Bridge
The Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Great Room at The Reisley House in Pleasantville, N.Y, featuring comfy sofa, floor-to-ceiling windows, immense textures and large bookcase.
Reflection of a street sign in a window, Cumberland Road, Bristol.
The "beware deep water" sign at the viewpoint at the end of Spike Island, which has been repeatedly painted over by various local street artists for years.
Silhouette of a peace lily with a crassula ovata behind a voile curtain in the background.
Two Amazon parcels sitting in a half-full recycling bin in the rain.
Me, in a junior school photo. With hair.
Moped standing next to a taverna menu at the beach in Kalyves, Crete on a rainy day.
River, Georgioupoli, Crete
Kalyves, Crete.
Cretan cat, Stella’s, Kalyves
Cafe chairs, Apicorno, Kalyves
Coast near Kalyves, Crete
A cactus on Spike Island
A man stokes the firebox of the steam engine Henbury on Bristol harbourside.
I hold up the original 7” single of the Blake’s 7 theme tune/The Federation March
Postcard Front Clifton Suspension Bridge from Hotwells, Bristol. (Shot from Avon towpath, Hotwells Landing Stage of White Funnel Fleet visible on opposite side.)
Graffitied window in one of the small shelters at the tops of the spiral staircases that bracket either side of the Plimsoll Bridge, Cumberland Basin, Bristol.
The Bath Tour bus at Cumberland Basin, Bristol
Catan board with a nice long red road full of cities 🙂
Sign on back of van: “NOTICE TO ALL SCUMBAGS SMACKHEADS & LOW LIFES NO POWER TOOLS ARE LEFT OVERNIGHT”
Eggs poaching (not quickly enough) in a pan
Adrian on my shelf amongst Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, the Strugatskys, Ted Sturgeon, James Tiptree Junior (who might still be on this section of shelf under her real name, of course) and EC Tubb. This isn’t even the SF&F section!
Vila: I’m entitled to my opinion. Avon: It’s your assumption that we are entitled to it as well that is irritating.
The Worst Person in the World; Sorry, Baby; A Big Bold Beautiful Journey; The Roses.
Police tape dangling in front of the damage to the historical pub frontage of York House, Dowry Square.
Section of rear cover of L Ron Hubbard's _Battlefield Earth_ album, listing performances by various artists including Chick Corea.
L Ron Hubbard’s _Battlefield Earth_ album.
Apparently my energy prices are going down in April!
Graph from one drive of my Synology backup server, showing a sharp upward ramp of bad sectors.
Portishead Open Air Pool cafe.
Rain on a car windscreen, Portishead Lido.
Historical postcard featuring the Clifton Suspension Bridge, taken from south of the river, probably near the then-Clifton Bridge station on the Portishead line near Bower Ashton. A Campbell Brothers steamer of the White Funnel fleet seems to be docked at the Howell Road landing stage.
Reflective masquerade ball-style eye mask abandoned next to Cumberland Piazza.
James Spader plays Raymond Reddington in The Blacklist