multi map muddle

I really am getting nerdy. Making plans for London travel, I thought "Oh, multi map - I can print the bits I need and then I won't have to carry a great big thing around with me" . So after cursing multi map for only printing part of each page that it shows you on the screen and spending a good deal of time measuring out little overlapping sections and printing them, I got really really cross when it suddenly changed its mind about letting me print. I expect there's a limit to how many free prints you can have. Or its server went off line or something. I'd only got as far as Oxford Circus and whether you're going from Waterloo to Paddington or vice versa that's just not far enough.
So what's wrong with photocopying relevant pages from the real paper map then? Er, nothing. Nothing at all. I am a daft, nerdy, computer dependant nitwit.
I love maps. When searching for the London A-Z, I found an OS map of Manchester, which included a good deal of the Rochdale Canal and informed me that we would travel past or through such places as 'Friendly' and 'Boggarts Hole Clough'. And then there are places round there called Daisy Nook, now a country park, once much visited on sunny Sunday afternoons by Barney's Mum and Dad. Also the village of Bardsley and Bardsley House. I think it's something to do with the Norman Conquests and I suspect that well known gentleman Norman de Bardsley was a troublesome Norman knight sent off to settle or struggle in the furthest Northern parts of William's new and tiresome acquisition.
Boggarts Hole Clough reminded me of William Mayne, an author I loved as a teenager and who wrote short, tight, gripping childrens' books about local traditions and superstitions. The local boggart featured largely in 'Earthfasts' which also included standing stones which walked on a certain night of the year and led the two young heroes to discover King Arthur. I wonder if that was the same boggart now immortalised in the OS landranger map No. 109.
I wonder if you can still get William Mayne's books. Probably they're too old and out of print.
(actually it turns out that you can still get him 'used andnew' on amazon. So I might. He's written hundreds and hundreds of books I never knew about - before the internet see :)
Anyway. On on to London and such a special meeting :)