Jon @sloopjonb1960.bsky.social · 1hCooking: basic Whistle: yes Draw: only maps Paint: only walls Swim: um, sort of? English: why, yes, I am Dance: ha ha, no Sing: quite well Drive: No, prefer trains & buses Gifting: what? Write: yes, but fuck knows why Guitar: see dance Speaking: If you mean public speaking, yes, I have done that 000
Jon @sloopjonb1960.bsky.social · 3hFear not. If we need it, we'll steal it. That's the zeitgeist of our hinterland. 110
Jon @sloopjonb1960.bsky.social · 23hSometimes you can be the most dreadful old fogey, Tollers. (Reading #Tolkien letters). 010
Jon @sloopjonb1960.bsky.social · 02/10/2026music.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Some fool posted a video asking what the best song about trains is, and there were over 5.000 comments, and boy have I been down a rabbit hole. Added 64 tracks to the Trains playlist. So far ...music.youtube.comTrainsYouTube video by Jon Sloopjonb 000
Jon @sloopjonb1960.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I wish fucking scammers purporting to be desperate victims of some tragedy or other would stop reposting my posts 😡 010
Jon @sloopjonb1960.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Darker, edgier Mary Poppins ... That would be the books, then. 021
Jon @sloopjonb1960.bsky.social · 29/09/2026And these three new volumes are the fourth version I've owned, and, probably, the last. Started with a single volume paperback in, ooh, about 1970? #Tolkien 010
Jon @sloopjonb1960.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I had my previous (hardback) copies of LOTR for 46 years. They served me well, but all things must pass. (I have kept the folding maps and put them in the shiny new volumes, as despite being illustrated and all, they had no fold-out maps). #Tolkien 121
Jon @sloopjonb1960.bsky.social · 27/09/2026SHINY SHINY NEW BOOKS. Yes, I did have them all already. But these are REVISED and UPDATED and ON OFFER. #Tolkien 140
Jon @sloopjonb1960.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Dunno why I bother buying a train ticket. Didn't get gripped once, all the way from Llandudno Junction, and didn't pass through any barriers, either. 200
Jon @sloopjonb1960.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Don't give them time to speed up production of Fw190s. 020
Reposted by JonEmma Cox @emmacox.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Jan Tregeagle was a Cornishman so vile that when his ghost was accidentally summoned back to the land of the living, the locals decided to handle his eternal punishment themselves. This is my retelling of one of Cornwall's notorious folktales. #Cornwall emmacoxcreates.substack.com/p/to-roar-li...emmacoxcreates.substack.comTo Roar Like TregeagleThe story of a man who cheated all of Cornwall, only to find that death is the most cunning cheat of all. 011
Reposted by JonCatherine Warr @cathwarr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026🚨NEW VIDEO!🚨 What was the frontier of the Roman Empire like? Was Northern Britannia really an untamed wasteland? I head to Piercebridge Roman Fort to explore what these ruins tell us about the northernmost frontier of the Roman Empire. youtu.be/x0LLUcs-VWAyoutu.beWhat This Fort Reveals About Roman BritainYouTube video by Catherine Warr 142
Jon @sloopjonb1960.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Penric would fit right in at the White Rat. Desdemona, maybe not so much. 240
Jon @sloopjonb1960.bsky.social · 13/09/2026It was telling that the substitutions made no difference to the pattern of play. No plan B. It wasn't even as if Palace defended all that well; they just got bodies in the way. 010
Jon @sloopjonb1960.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Too slow, too static, too predictable, and no plan B. Shouldn't think City or Chelsea are going to be too worried. #ARSCRY 001
Jon @sloopjonb1960.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Not enough movement off the ball from Arsenal. Space has to be made, not waited for. 011
Jon @sloopjonb1960.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I was amused by one sent to a romance author named Mallory Thomas, which offered the book club for her work Le Morte D'Arthur ... 040
Reposted by JonLisa W @ciciaye.bsky.social · 08/09/2026RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open. (I never say period unless it means a length of time or those annoying things I don't have anymore) 002
Jon @sloopjonb1960.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Location: unknown Date: unknown, and may not have happened at all. 040
Reposted by JonEmma Cox @emmacox.bsky.social · 05/09/2026There are few arts as ancient as the role of the storyteller. Words committed to memory for the purpose of keeping the old tales alive, to educate and, of course, to entertain. In Cornwall, these people are called the droll tellers. #Cornwall #Folklore emmacoxcreates.substack.com/p/cornwalls-...emmacoxcreates.substack.comCornwall’s Droll TellersThe traditional oral storytellers who kept the old Cornish tales alive 041
Jon @sloopjonb1960.bsky.social · 05/09/2026In the first press report of the 'Loch Ness Monster' it was originally described as looking like 'two wild ducks fighting'. (Which it probably was). 011
Jon @sloopjonb1960.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I know you for a greedy man Who takes my food from my fridge shelf Desist from stealing, if you can And don't eat all the plums yourself! 020
Jon @sloopjonb1960.bsky.social · 05/09/2026You have fucked up - you ate my plums You didn't mean to, but you did Crept down and scoffed them, every one That I had thought so safely hid. But you'll be fucked up in your turn 'Cause I will steal your porridge oats And then you'll have no breakfast left I hope the plums stick in your throat. 120
Jon @sloopjonb1960.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Listening to East Coast Racer by Big Big Train whilst actually travelling on the East Coast Main Line. Which is nice. 000
Jon @sloopjonb1960.bsky.social · 02/09/2026It's not a tapestry, for a start, and it (probably) wasn't made in Bayeux, either, so perhaps they need to explain what the Canterbury Embroidery is. 010
Jon @sloopjonb1960.bsky.social · 31/08/2026No idea. I do remember being pissed off that the Newcastle match had been cancelled. And thoroughly disgusted at the ensuing lunacy. 010
Jon @sloopjonb1960.bsky.social · 30/08/2026static.klipy.comCaptain America: I Understood That ReferenceALT: Captain America: I Understood That Reference 010
Reposted by JonEmma Cox @emmacox.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Most Cornish seafarers regarded their appearance as a herald of bad luck or bad weather. But to hear a mermaid’s song was a sign of death. #Cornwall #mermaids #folklore #History #sea #ocean emmacoxcreates.substack.com/p/morvoren-m...emmacoxcreates.substack.comMorvoren: Mermaid Folklore from CornwallExploring Cornwall’s mermaids and their tales from beneath the waves 051
Jon @sloopjonb1960.bsky.social · 28/08/2026They fuck you up, your trunkless legs They leave you stuck in level sand With nothing else that can be seen But a sneer of cold command 131
Jon @sloopjonb1960.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Good luck ... even Capital Transport haven't got any for sale anymore! 200
Jon @sloopjonb1960.bsky.social · 28/08/2026(Source: The Metropolitan Line, An Illustrated History, Mike Horne, pub. Capital Transport 2003). 130
Jon @sloopjonb1960.bsky.social · 28/08/2026At the platform. Steam train runs in from Aylesbury, loco is detached, runs forward to holding siding, electric loco pulls back from similar siding, attached to front of train, and off to Baker Street. Reverse for opposite direction. Electric power extended to Rickmansworth 5th Jan 1925. 2150
