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Max Hardy

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Barrister | TV legal consultant (Mr Bates, Landscapers, Criminal UK, Defending the Guilty) | Legal blogger & media commentator | Kalisher Trust Trustee Blogs, lectures, podcasts, profiles here: https://linktr.ee/MaxJLHardy

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johnw60.bsky.social @johnw60.bsky.social · 6h

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Monty Python and Holy Grail, bring out the dead

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Max Hardy @maxjlhardy.bsky.social · 6h

You think you’re living in the 21st century until you get emails from the school and nursery about lice and hand, foot and mouth disease and you realise nothing has changed since the Middle Ages.

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Max Hardy @maxjlhardy.bsky.social · 3d

Jane Goodall, Jilly Cooper, Diane Keaton. If ever there was a time when we needed women of their kind more.

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Max Hardy @maxjlhardy.bsky.social · 4d

The Tourist Board under Reform. Don’t miss a trip to the Pastycceria.

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Max Hardy @maxjlhardy.bsky.social · 5d

Nobody nobbles Nobel.

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.bsky.social · 8d

“so how about next week you try to be more of a bo-YES-bo?” - chimp therapist

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Max Hardy @maxjlhardy.bsky.social · 8d

Hardy boy: How are babies made?
Me: I’ve explained this before.
HB: Yes, but where does it happen?
Me: What do you mean?
HB: Do you have to go to hospital?
Me: No, that would be weird.

Max Hardy @maxjlhardy.bsky.social · 10d

Jilly Cooper was sauce. Now everything's just coarse.

Max Hardy @maxjlhardy.bsky.social · 11d

A simply extraordinary thread which ends up as an allegory about the perils of discarding things that were made to last. It’s a crying shame how little value is attached to ‘brown wood’ furniture.

Lydia Massiah @lydiamassiah.bsky.social · 12d

This could be a long and rambling thread. Be patient with me.

I bought an old mahogany bureau on Ebay. I didn't really want a bureau as we're meant to be downsizing, but it was a beautiful piece & obviously very old. Google lens suggests the brass chased handles are Queen Anne. That's 1702-1714 😯