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Jon

@sloopjonb1960.bsky.social

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Occasional writer. Owned by cat.

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Jon @sloopjonb1960.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Another nine:

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Jon @sloopjonb1960.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I could easily have picked another dozen.

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Jon @sloopjonb1960.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Underground, Overground ...

London Transport roundel with wording WOMBLING FREE

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Jon @sloopjonb1960.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

SHINY SHINY NEW BOOKS. Yes, I did have them all already. But these are REVISED and UPDATED and ON OFFER. #Tolkien

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Jon @sloopjonb1960.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

This is cat check point: Relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone.

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Jon @sloopjonb1960.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Indubitably.

Allister Heath: The awful truth about TransPennine Express is now too monstrous to hide

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Jon @sloopjonb1960.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

#SundayLit Prompt: Colour

The wardresses at the Bearfort jail were a cynical and hard-bitten lot, who thought they had seen and heard everything, and they treated Jackie’s cries of distress with initial contempt. Anyone might feign illness, to try and get a softer bed in the infirmary. A quick look through the spyhole, however, had changed their minds quite quickly. Even they had never seen so much vomit come from one person, and never any that was such a virulent shade of green.

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Jon @sloopjonb1960.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

#SundayLit Happiness:

The next day, rather late in the morning, Aiella burst into Burroughs’ cottage in a state of high excitement, with Eliana following rather more calmly behind.
“I danced, Burroughs!” she cried, so loudly that Tess woke up and let off a bark. “Sorry, Tess. But I did! I danced at a ball, with everybody, and I wore a lovely dress and shiny shoes and oh, you should have seen me!”
“And so I did see thee, lass, and a proper picture thou looked, too.”
“What? How did you see me?”
“Yon miss there,” nodding to Eliana, who stood smiling in the doorway “sorted it for me. I was sat up in the gallery, and her maid brought me summat to eat and a drop of beer, and I saw it all. Eh, but thou called to mind thy grandmother. A bonny lass she was, and very great at the dancing.”
Aiella whirled round to face Eliana, who was laughing now. “Did you do that? Did you sneak Burroughs in just so he could see me?”
“Yes, I did, and he had a fine old time up there, I hear, cracking stories with the musicians, and drinking about five pints of beer.”
Aiella flung her arms about her, and squeezed her tight. “Oh, that was such a kind thing!” she cried. “Oh, Ellie, I do love you!”
And if Burroughs noticed a strange, pained expression cross Eliana’s face as she heard this he never told anybody about it.

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Jon @sloopjonb1960.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

#SundayLit Openings

Excerpt from my WIP 'Aiella', describing Aiella entering a room through a locked door.

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Jon @sloopjonb1960.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

If you see this, repost with your getaway vehicle.

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Jon @sloopjonb1960.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

We're watching the rugby

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Jon @sloopjonb1960.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Went out in the sunshine for a nice walk, a route I'd not done before. Only 2500 steps, but some of it very steep. The downhill bit was extremely steep. Very pretty and birdsong everywhere; I heard 14 different species. This small friend was one of them.

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Jon @sloopjonb1960.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

from a H2G2 fanfic I wrote many years ago ...

“Sit down,” Arthur invited him. Would you like a cup of tea?”
Ford grinned.
“That sounds like the Arthur I know,” he said. “Yes, thanks. Milk and no sugar.”
Arthur raised an eyebrow at this.
“You, drinking tea? Are you sure you’re not a mind-sucking entity from Arcturus
who has set upon the real Ford and stolen his memories?”
“Nah. I’d have sucked your brains out by now if I was. I just feel like tea
right now. Anyway, my memories aren’t worth having. I bought most of them for
forty dollars from a cheap memory shop on Santraginus V. The guy running the
joint assured me they were from a former lover of Eccentrica Gallumbits.”
“I take it they weren’t?”
“Not exactly. Turned out to be from a carpet fitter. Should have realised they
were dodgy when he kept saying how much laying this guy had done. Still, you
need your stairs carpeting, I’m your man.”

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Jon @sloopjonb1960.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

I went for a day out yesterday and met this chap at Buxton Station ...

A statue apparently made from old parts used on the railways

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Jon @sloopjonb1960.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I'm guessing somebody at the BBC doesn't like Sale Sharks ...

Rugby scoreboard from the BBC, replacing Sale in the name of Sale Sharks with Dirty. I don't follow Rugby Union, so I don't know if they actually are.

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