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Michael Maggs @michaelmaggs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

There’s an issue right there with your first three words: "Maybe this week” …

Michael Maggs @michaelmaggs.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

That was available 30 years ago with both AA and TomTom route mapping. Also available (but no longer) was the option of storing and recalling preferred routes. Sigh

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Michael Maggs @michaelmaggs.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

In the UK, Arthur Mee’s Children’s Encyclopaedia, Pears’ Cyclopaedia, and Whitaker’s Almanack. (I think those are correct 1960s spellings)

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Michael Maggs @michaelmaggs.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Was it really published by “Oxtord University Press”, as it claims on the title page?

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Michael Maggs @michaelmaggs.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

PDFs can be viewed and annotated for free with the Firefox browser

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Michael Maggs @michaelmaggs.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Meeting targets by painting lines isn’t cheap you know. Have you seen the price of paint these days?

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Michael Maggs @michaelmaggs.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

"Merry Christmas" has been common in the UK for centuries

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Michael Maggs @michaelmaggs.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Hyper realistic style, EIIR letterbox facing the road, cab and bus wrong era, drivers’ faces blurred out by Google, shorty bus with no space for seats, fantasy clock tower, WH Smith selling Orilmas Carls, modern garland above shop window, silly wording on bus, floating Christmas trees lit with LEDs

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Michael Maggs @michaelmaggs.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

The Beginning of Spring A Tale of Two Cities Mansfield Park

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Michael Maggs @michaelmaggs.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

“Especially three days before Easter”. 1st April

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Michael Maggs @michaelmaggs.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Congratulations to both. Nice to hear of a barrister Maggs

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Michael Maggs @michaelmaggs.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Sounds really fascinating. Sadly, library card login does not provide access, and OUP expects interested readers to cough up £44

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Michael Maggs @michaelmaggs.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

You cut off the end of the pull quote: “Barristers are generally delightful to talk to and full of …” What?

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Michael Maggs @michaelmaggs.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Married? Is that still on after yesterday’s face mask pic?

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Michael Maggs @michaelmaggs.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Don’t worry, they’ll soon message you with an updated delivery time of 1 to 9pm

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Michael Maggs @michaelmaggs.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Why does everything have to be oversaturated?

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Michael Maggs @michaelmaggs.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Great scenes at the Last Night of the Proms this evening. Hundreds of EU flags on display. We shall not forget

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Michael Maggs @michaelmaggs.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Do kids still need to be provided with a plastic stencil for drawing bunson burners & test tubes for chemistry write-ups? I may have a spare one from 1969.

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Michael Maggs @michaelmaggs.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Possibly “Downland”, as in the habitat?

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Michael Maggs @michaelmaggs.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

I’m so excited read it that I’ve started a Wikipedia article! Not much there so far, but I’m sure it will grow as the meaty reviews pour in. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cut...

en.wikipedia.org

The Cut Throat Trial - Wikipedia

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Michael Maggs @michaelmaggs.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

No, nothing, but I just went onto the Crowdfunder site and saw you’ve some updates there

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Michael Maggs @michaelmaggs.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

I contributed last year and have been waiting for news. Keep us updated with whatever’s going on! Good luck!

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Michael Maggs @michaelmaggs.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

“I was lucky to have written a textbook…” Love it!

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Michael Maggs @michaelmaggs.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

I said we’ve already sold the house and don’t yet know where we will be moving to. May need to rent for a while. They managed to cancel then

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Michael Maggs @michaelmaggs.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Not going down there. He might be loitering by the door

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Michael Maggs @michaelmaggs.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Hey, look what’s just arrived! Can’t wait to get stuck in. I’m planning to make good use of it to improve my contributions to the Wikipedia article en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Me...

Photo of the cover of The Blood in Winter, by Jonathan Healey

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Michael Maggs @michaelmaggs.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I love the added attraction of pictures printed on a sheet of cardboard for cutting out. And they even stand up!

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Michael Maggs @michaelmaggs.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Three decades earlier! Battling Tops came out in 1968

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Michael Maggs @michaelmaggs.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Unable to download from macOS via the USB option as it tells me I don’t have a Kindle account, in spite of having a logged-in Kindle app open on a USB-connected iPhone. Maybe I’m missing something

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Michael Maggs @michaelmaggs.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Click and read. The provision of an easy-access link to a document I probably wouldn’t otherwise come across is in itself a valuable service, over and above the commentary

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 12/02/2025

Reminder: Don’t follow art theft accounts that post other people’s work with no credits. They make the internet worse.

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Michael Maggs @michaelmaggs.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Even worse is “sanctioned”. Authorised to do something? Or prohibited?

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