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
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