Giles Andreae upper second class degree. In 2006 Andreae worked alongside Blunderbus Theatre Company (Nottinghamshire) to adapt his story "Giraffes Can't Dance" to bring it to stage. The company toured this story across the UK. Purple Ronnie is a cartoon character used in greetings cards, T-shirts and other merchandise. Drawn in a simple stick man style with a smiley face and a large oval body, Ronnie is usually shown as a comic poet, the cartoons' rhyming captions being written in a simple style and including mild taboo language. Purple Ronnie cards were first sold in 1987. The character was later used in
Laura Seddon Greeting Card Collection Laura Seddon Greeting Card Collection Laura Seddon Greeting Card Collection is a collection of greeting cards now in the Manchester Metropolitan University, in the Sir Kenneth Green Library, on the All Saints Campus. The collection consists of a section of 32,000 Victorian and Edwardian greeting cards by major publishers of the day. It includes cards printed by hand like those produced by Sockl and Nathan and also mass-produced cards (a subsequent production method) like those produced by Marcus Ward & Co and Raphael Tuck & Sons. Some of the cards hold special significance, like Britain's first commercially produced Christmas card