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
Vimto is also taken to sporting events in vacuum flasks by spectators as a warming drink to fend off the winter chill. Various alternate-flavoured variants of Vimto were introduced over the years; cherry- and strawberry-flavoured variants, known as "Cherry Vimto" and "Strawberry Vimto" have become part of the range. In 2016, a new variant, "Vimto Remix", was introduced. This range consists of various alternate flavour mixes that were introduced each year - mango, strawberry and pineapple in 2016, raspberry, orange and passionfruit in 2017 and most recently, watermelon, strawberry and peach. In the Arabian Peninsula, Vimto has had over 80 years