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Sally
@sallymaria.bsky.social
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How do you want to remember this?

Tolkien fan, Home Fry and Longest Johns fan, steam trains, history lover, Linux Mint user since 2009, everything else is subject to change without notice.

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carvehername.bsky.social
This weekend there's free shipping from our UK bookshop.org. Your cat will thank you for it.

If you're looking for non-fiction, our research stack might be the list for you: uk.bookshop.org/list...
A small ginger cat sits neatly in a brown bookshop.org box. Text reads 'free shipping on cat forts (and the books that come in them).
November 29, 2025 at 8:45 AM
sallymaria.bsky.social
If you needed more reasons to love these guys - the lengths they will go to make a music video. 😄
thelongestjohns.bsky.social The Longest Johns @thelongestjohns.bsky.social · 17d
As you might expect, there were one or two outtakes from filming Paddy Lay Back, so we compiled them into... THIS!
Then go check out the full thing:
youtu.be/vVhods7zeko

#TheLongestJohns #FolkMusic #Shanty
November 13, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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loryder.bsky.social
Today is the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Recently, Home Free released their video for their cover of the Gordon Lightfoot original. Give it a listen. The video pays tribute to the 29 lives lost on the Fitz.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um1P...
Home Free - The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
YouTube video by Home Free
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
sallymaria.bsky.social
Some of my favourite Tolkien artwork, illustrating one of my favourite Lord of the Rings passages.
matejcadil.bsky.social Matěj Čadil @matejcadil.bsky.social · Oct 16
“In western lands beneath the Sun…” Sam’s song carries hope through shadow. My illustration captures that moment — light remembered in dark places.
🖼️ Hand-embellished art prints here: matejcadil.etsy.com/listing/1302...
October 16, 2025 at 8:44 PM
sallymaria.bsky.social
Really wish I could get to this - these guys are so talented and fun. Highly recommended.
elponypisador.bsky.social EL PONY PISADOR // EL PONY MENUT @elponypisador.bsky.social · Oct 16
UK TOUR!!!

👉If you are reading this from the UK and you are interested in extreme happiness delivery check this out!!!

I si per casualitat t'enganxa de visita, que millor que bolo del pony de viatge suu💚

TICKETS ON OUR WEBSITE🤙
elponypisador.com/concerts
October 16, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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thelongestjohns.bsky.social
It's almost streamtime! We'll be going live in less time than it takes a zombie to run the 100m! Unless it's one of those running zombies in which case make it a few of those! See you there...
youtube.com/live/aHpvCXQ...

#TheLongestJohns #LiveStream #FolkMusic #Shanty
A thumbnail image for the upcoming TLJ livestream, titled 28 Streams Later. It is extremely red, with a pair of spooky eyes in the background (but bespectacled, like JD's). Andy, JD, and Robbie are shown smaller and below, in silhouette, holding a banjo, a guitar, and a mandolin respectively, as if ready to use them as weapons to fend off the zombie horde.
October 15, 2025 at 4:03 PM
sallymaria.bsky.social
Octenth again - and I'm seeing them live this evening. 😃
sallymaria.bsky.social Sally @sallymaria.bsky.social · Oct 10
Several years ago on a livestream someone told @thelongestjohns that their music was 10/10 or as their text to speech put it - October 10th. So fans decided to celebrate Octenth and I wanted to share 10 of my favourite Johns videos, starting with yesterday's collab...
youtu.be/J7KeQzhfOQE?...
Star of the County Down Ft Colm R. Mcguinness | The Longest Johns
YouTube video by The Longest Johns
youtu.be
October 10, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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thelongestjohns.bsky.social
Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who came Into the Deep with us. You have been a wonderful audience, and it's been a tremendous pleasure to join voices with yourselves, @homefreeguys.bsky.social, and Sean Dagher! ❤️

#TheLongestJohns #HomeFree #IntoTheDeep #LiveMusic #FolkMusic #Shanty
A picture from the Home Free and Longest Johns show in Ohio, where both bands PLUS the majestic Sean Dagher are on stage in the middle of performing the song Santiana. The lighting for this particular song is a warm orange. Everyone is sort of haphazardly arranged around the stage because it's a very mobile performance, and but a single image doesn't really convey the mobility. A thoroughly purple shot from the closing performance of Northwest Passage, where the full ensemble (again including Sean Dagher, still majestic) is arranged across the front of the stage in a line. Lots of hands clasped in front or behind, and a sombre reverence for the song. And then there's iRobbie (an iPad on top of a mannequin in t-shirt and board shorts), with his arms up as if announcing a touchdown, but also with his eyes shut in respect. A closing shot from the show, where all members are lined up with arms round each other having just taken a synchronised bow to close out the show. Apart from iRobbie who is still in the 'touchdown' pose.
October 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
sallymaria.bsky.social
Had the most incredible evening yesterday watching the livestream of the last show in this joint @homefreeguys.bsky.social and @thelongestjohns.bsky.social tour. I believe you can still buy tickets if you can watch in the next 24 hours or so.
Home Free + The Longest Johns + Seán Dagher - LIVE TODAY! (Into The Deep Tour)
YouTube video by Home Free
www.youtube.com
October 6, 2025 at 6:40 AM
sallymaria.bsky.social
Just beautiful
Grey Funnel Line - Live in Ely Cathedral (Windborne)
YouTube video by Windborne Singers
youtu.be
October 4, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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johngarthwriter.bsky.social
Happy Hobbit Day everyone! On this day in 1937, J.R.R. Tolkien gave us The Hobbit, our doorway into Middle-earth. Inside he hid a gift to his favourite aunt. My latest blog post will put you in the picture! tinyurl.com/hobbitongrange
#Tolkien #HobbitDay #Hobbit
September 22, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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stormfeather.bsky.social
Absolutely gorgeous new song from @homefreeguys.bsky.social from their Challenge the Sea album that just dropped the day. The video is a continuation of their Skull and Bones one, and the song features Seán Dagher.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdIi...
Home Free - Northwest Passage
YouTube video by Home Free
www.youtube.com
September 19, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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matejcadil.bsky.social
On the slopes of Mount Doom, the Ring destroyed, the quest has been achieved, but it seems that all is over for Frodo and Sam. Frodo, who has long held on with endurance beyond hope, is resigned that this is "the end of all things", whereas Sam, with unquenchable hope, doesn't want to give up yet.
September 11, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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thelongestjohns.bsky.social
We're about to fly off to the US and boy are our arms about to be tired.
But first, STREAM! Landing this Wednesday at 6pm BST! Be there for songs, chat, and anything in between!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg-o...

#TheLongestJohns #LiveStream #FolkMusic #Shanty #Singing
Microsoft Flight Streamulator | The Longest Johns Singing Stream
We're heading Into the Deep NEXT WEEK and can't wait to see many of you around the USA. This stream is a little ahead of our usual schedule so we have the chance to hang out with you one last time…
www.youtube.com
September 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
sallymaria.bsky.social
This is incredible - one of their best arrangements, up there with Brothers in Arms, and Jimmy Bates's video takes it to another level.
marciag9848.bsky.social MarciaG @marciag9848.bsky.social · Sep 5
The newest video from @homefreeguys.bsky.social is a dramatic portrayal of the 1976 Gordon Lightfoot original folk rock ballad “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um1P...
Home Free - The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
YouTube video by Home Free
www.youtube.com
September 7, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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tobyhadoke.bsky.social
Christopher H Bidmead : a warm, engaging and hugely intelligent man who enjoyed putting the cat among the pigeons on interviews. In real life though, he was approachable and kind: and made the nicest coffee I’ve ever had. Here is is at home in Dec 2013 when he kindly asked me round.
RIP Chris x
August 30, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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ignigeno.bsky.social
I just kinda forgot to post more photos of my recent LEGO animals. This month has been a lot..
But here's a very Moo Deng inspired hippo I made to brighten your day!
#lego #art
A cute hippo made of LEGO. A cute hippo made of LEGO.
August 29, 2025 at 12:58 PM
sallymaria.bsky.social
Wrong side of the Atlantic for me, but I want to hear all about it from everyone who gets to see my two favourite bands performing together.
thelongestjohns.bsky.social The Longest Johns @thelongestjohns.bsky.social · Aug 19
It's not long until we head off to join HOME FREE on a journey INTO THE DEEP, and we'd love to see you there for the VERY SPECIAL collaborrative show we've got planned!
www.thelongestjohns.com/live

#TheLongestJohns #HomeFree #LiveMusic #USTour #FolkMusic #Shanty
An image of three(?)-headed The Longest Johns wearing their single, large dungarees, saying "Ahoy American shipfriends, The Longest Johns here! Into the Deep begins in a month and we're as thrilled as this guy to show you this incredible show! Isn't that right?" To the right of them, just poking in to the edge of the frame, is a hard-to-notice splash of rich sea blue. A now complete image showing a fourth head on their shoulders. It is the wide-eyed, thousand-yard stare of the Into the Deep poster face, cheeks bedecked with tour date tattoos and orange Into the Deep hat, along with ships entangled in the stormy seas of his beard, a tentacle and harpoon jutting forth, and a ship's wheel in his mouth. He has seen things. A striking tour poster for Into The Deep, a tour from The Longest Johns and Home Free. It shows a stylised drawing of a distraught sailor's face, wearing an orange cap. His face is a cold blue hue, with hair and beard in darker blue, turning into waves and water as they progress down his face. Jutting out from the lower jaw in his open grimace of a mouth is a wooden ship's wheel. His face is scrawled with nautical tattoos (a compass, mountains, skull and crossbones, anchor, etc.) and across both his cheeks are the tour dates and venues.
August 20, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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jennydolfen.bsky.social
I'm proud to announce that I'm teaming up with Donovan Pottery to bring you Dungeons&Dormice mugs, paired with matching dice sets, coming soon! 🤩🐭
August 14, 2025 at 9:45 AM
sallymaria.bsky.social
I was so happy when I got my Oxonmoot shirt with this beautiful design.
matejcadil.bsky.social Matěj Čadil @matejcadil.bsky.social · Aug 12
I’m thrilled to share some exciting news! I had the honour of designing the official t-shirt for Oxonmoot 2025 – the annual gathering of #Tolkien fans hosted by @tolkiensociety.org in Oxford.⁠
August 13, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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clarelmoore.bsky.social
The @tolkiensociety.org seminar is online (October 18-19) and FREE! You can see the line up of papers (final schedule coming soon-ish) at the link below. Thrilled to see so many new names presenting on such fascinating topics!
August 13, 2025 at 12:36 PM
sallymaria.bsky.social
The Longer Johns
arobertswrites.com Abby @arobertswrites.com · Aug 13
Slightly diminish a band: the Novemberists
arobertswrites.com Abby @arobertswrites.com · Aug 13
Slightly diminish a band: The Tánaistí
August 13, 2025 at 6:40 AM
sallymaria.bsky.social
The latest release from @homefreeguys.bsky.social upcoming album Challenge The Sea features the tale of a modern day sailor, and Rob's incredible vocals.

youtu.be/N0_
Home Free - The Downeaster "Alexa"
YouTube video by Home Free
youtu.be
August 12, 2025 at 8:48 PM
sallymaria.bsky.social
Loving this.
greenleejw.bsky.social Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · Aug 8
Something a bit different this evening. Have a Thursday night train.
Black and white drawing of a steam train, made of abstract shapes and lines. The train is coming towards you down the tracks, but it will pass you by and head off to your left. It is pulling at least two cars: a coal car and a passenger car. There may be others, but they've not come into view yet. The train is billowing smoke, and there are wispy clouds in the sky. The train is not wispy. It is solid looking. Where is it headed? Does it have a name? What is it carrying? These are all quesitons you should be asking yourself. It's name might be The Spirit of St. Drogo, and it might be hauling coffee to Seattle. Or coals to Newcastle. Same difference, metaphorically speaking..
August 8, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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theavidindoorsmen.bsky.social
Our good friend and film actor J.Michael Trautmann came back on the pod to talk about X-Men which just turned 25 this year. He is a comic book aficionado so it was fun hearing his takes on this film. Listen to it now! #XMen #NewEpisode #Photoshop
August 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM