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Maggie

@maggie23.bsky.social
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Easily distracted, butterfly mind. History, esp Scots/English medieval, theatre, books, genealogy, dogs, people, friends, family (though not necessarily in that order).

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Maggie @maggie23.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“Daphne” George announced pompously “I regret to announce our engagement is at an end. Any young lady who plays tunes associated with that disreputable abomination of dances, the waltz, is simply not equipped to be the next Mrs Smyth-Parkinson” #GirlsOwnCC
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Maggie @maggie23.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The Birling family stopped mid-recital as Ernest stride into the room. “Your butler has asked me to tell you” he announced “that an Inspector has called. An inspector Goole, I understand” #GirlsOwnCC
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Maggie @maggie23.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Thank you
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Maggie @maggie23.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Jane reflected that whilst not particularly practical, even she could see that Jim’s mast was far too high for the arch of the bridge. She would stay here and watch - disasters were so exciting… #GirlsOwnCC
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Maggie @maggie23.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Emily was tempted by Joseph’s offer of a trip to ‘see the puffins’, but couldn’t help remembering that Cousin Eudoria had accepted the same last year. Eudoria had been abroad for the last few months with a mysterious ‘stomach condition’… so perhaps not #GirlsOwnCC
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Maggie @maggie23.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Thank you, I’ve never won before - but I hope Miss Parton would have smiled.
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Maggie @maggie23.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Thank you, it’s been a sad week, hasn’t it
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Maggie @maggie23.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I love the ‘flushed with success’ touch
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Maggie @maggie23.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Thank you!
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Maggie @maggie23.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Thank you
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Maggie @maggie23.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
“Ma’am, whilst I appreciate this book, I should inform you that I would have been quite unable to read it without the help of a Miss Parton, a resident of the Colonies” #GirlsOwnCC
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Maggie @maggie23.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Thank you! I’m honoured
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Maggie @maggie23.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
‘“Aye, Miss Charlotte, I’ll take Master Branwell home for thee - but this is t’last time. Parson Bronte told me to stop helping, tha knows…” #GirlsOwnCC
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Maggie @maggie23.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
“My darling Blue, my darling Sky, it’s so wonderful to have you back - and whilst it’s still (just) Sunday evening too! Earlier on, I thought I’d lost you!” #GirlsOwnCC
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Maggie @maggie23.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I was going to congratulate you on getting away without a “tsk tsk…” - Then found you hadn’t. Excellent attempt though, well done that woman!
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Maggie @maggie23.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Fanny raised her blindfold to be confronted by the Vicar and Parish Council. Nervously she tried to explain that although her baby was a mistake, he was only a little one… #GirlsOwnCC
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Maggie @maggie23.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
And that sounds like a very happy ending
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Maggie @maggie23.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
“Mama, why did Grandmama say that Papa is a rake? His teeth aren’t anything like this” #GirlsOwnCC
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Maggie @maggie23.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
“Alfred darling, when I said I’d pay you thruppence an hour to look after the lawn, I had no idea it would take this long…” #GirlsOwnCC
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Maggie @maggie23.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
That was the official reason, certainly. But the rumour persists that it was actually something to do with an unpleasant incident involving an attempt to ‘grope’ the choir masters wife…
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Maggie @maggie23.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Doris wasn’t surprised, she’d been worried about Daphne ever since she saw her using father’s cut-throat razor on her incipient moustache. Daphne had been 12 at the time…
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Maggie @maggie23.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Now I’m really scared…
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Maggie @maggie23.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
“Mother! Turning your chair away to ignore Gerald is extremely impolite” “Impolite?! Balderdash! Girls, this tennis club still maintains its standards and he is wearing… Brown… Shoes!!” #GirlsOwnCC
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Maggie @maggie23.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Eliza and Kitty had believed Mama’s promise of an eligible young man. They now considered the sawn off limbs on offer, and concluded the artist who couldn’t draw hands had finally and completely lost the plot #GirlsOwnCC
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Maggie @maggie23.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
“Why is Grace looking so dreamy and faraway?” “Didn’t you see that old woman throwing some suspiciously stained large rolling pins into the bushes? I think one rebounded and hit Grace on the head…” #GirlsOwnCC
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Maggie @maggie23.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
“Elsie’s hogged that hammock all afternoon! Remember ‘when the bough breaks the cradle will fall…’. So who’s got the chain saw?” #GirlsOwnCC
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Maggie @maggie23.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Possibly one of last week’s discarded (and banned) rolling pins?
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Maggie @maggie23.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Gloriously horrible!
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Maggie @maggie23.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
“Keep pushing that rolling pin hard Ethel - the blood’s being absorbed into the pastry and they’ll never find that randy footman’s body now...” #GirlsOwnCC
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Maggie @maggie23.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
“This is a bit tame old girl - I’m considering getting a horseless carriage with that new fangled internal combustion engine” “Really? After that extra bran mash last night I think this horse has already got one…” #GirlsOwnCC
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Maggie @maggie23.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
“Gerald, have you been map reading again? You promised you would take me to see the Trooping of the Colour, so please explain why nearly everyone else is going the other way?” #GirlsOwnCC
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Maggie @maggie23.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
“One can see why they call it Rotten Row Daphne. That child on our right? He’s riding something from a damn merry-go-round! Dashed bad form…” #GirlsOwnCC
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Maggie @maggie23.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Please convey to His Nibs that I think that is excellent
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Maggie @maggie23.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
True - it certainly wasn’t original!
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Maggie @maggie23.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Pull yourself together George! If Count Binface can face the Makerfield electorate, so can you! But I do appreciate it’s not easy, being a Tory… #GirlsOwnCC
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Maggie @maggie23.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
It’s no use crying Cecil, half term’s over, it IS school tomorrow and you’ll just have to face it. You must - after all, you’re the Headmaster! #GirlsOwnCC
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Maggie @maggie23.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Fascinating!
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Maggie @maggie23.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Another Georgette Heyer reader? Either way, love it!
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Maggie @maggie23.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Thank you Ma’am! Praise from you etc… (I saw the Honourable Mention, nice one)
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Maggie @maggie23.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
“What?! You thought leaving him on a doorstep would hide your shame? Not when it’s your own doorstep, you idiot girl!” #GirlsOwnCC
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Maggie @maggie23.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Oops, I didn’t realise I’d replied to you Patrick!
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Maggie @maggie23.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Ernestine, I don’t care if you want to found a ‘socially aware’ campaign to rescue climbing boys, you’re not foisting this one on your sister! #GirlsOwnCC
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Maggie @maggie23.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Sadly true
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Maggie @maggie23.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
If only…
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Maggie @maggie23.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Clever!!
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Maggie @maggie23.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Whilst Caroline Bingley shut her eyes to show the music offended, Mary was devastated to hear Mr Bennet say ‘My child, you have delighted us long enough…” #GirlsOwnCC
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Maggie @maggie23.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
As Albert watched Victoria skilfully play a traditional air, the ghost of Mary, Queen of Scots, sat quietly in the background, nodding gently to the music #GirlsOwnCC
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Maggie @maggie23.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
You are definitely getting worse - but I love it!
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Maggie @maggie23.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Interesting, and an excellent plan. Oddly enough I asked because I know residents of Lamond Drive (and they are all students…)
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Maggie @maggie23.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Pure nosiness (apologies) because your tour sounds great, but in all of the lovely St Andrews, is there something special about Lamond Drive I’ve missed?
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