Eleanor Morton

Gigging in Durham today, with @eleanormorton.bsky.social MCing Darryl Carrington and Lee Kyle. It's sold out, hooray hooray. Please consider this your advance notice to book for May 29th (galadurham.co.uk/galapost/com...), with a different line-up doing their razzle-dazzle best for ages 6+. Yessss!

He went to my school!
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Not at the same time,obv

No! It's tiger who came to tea/cat in the hat next!

'I didn't grow up wanting to be a politician, I'm a plumber'

The green Party's Hannah Spencer has won the Gorton and Denton, with Reform in second and Labour finished third

I'm also reading this and enjoying it very much. Horrible History for grownups

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Uhhhhh do you need a chair

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

#releasethepancut

Well I didn't pick up on ANY of the gay stuff the first 20 times i read it, I just thought it must be nice to have a friend free so often to hang out

Yeah I think he's great for anthropomorphic animal tales, he makes them look real but also fantastical and they have so much character

*capture, not character

Toad dressed from driving coming down his front steps towards a motorcar as Badger, Ratty and Mole look on, horrified

Toad's intervention

A smug looking toad in a suit, smoking a cigar, heads into a pub

Toad on his way to the pub

EH Shepard's illustration of toad dressed as a washerwoman, and the elderly washerwoman

Toad and the Washerwoman

This one was so fun and also check out my favourite illustrations by EH Shepard (below) I think they character the vibe PERFECTLY

It's all very pointless and bureaucratic and confusing

Beautiful!

Is there a dragon that lives there or something

Stuck at Newark Northgate due to broken down train and I need a train nerd to explain to me why trains always break down just south of York

Re-listening to Broken Veil in prep for series 2 and by god, what a lovely thing

"He wasn't actually arrested for--" WE KNOW. THEY ARE NEVER ARRESTED FOR SEX CRIMES. Society dngaf about protecting women, and women know that. We're just happy he was arrested at all

No its about the fact that people who love you will not give a fuck about the superficial things you fixated on when you die

I can't wait for people not to get this

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How I picture my funeral
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Fun to remember that the dad of the Brontës was just a weird Irishman whose surname was actually Brunty, but he changed it up to be fancy.

We dow not give a fuck

Racing off to grab Eleanor’s book.

Yes she did, I talk all about it in the book!