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Eleanor @eleanorturney.co.uk · 20h

Did you know that I now run Many Hats, offering professional development workshops specifically for freelancers? Please take a look and spread the word! www.many-hats.org

Many Hats | Professional development for freelancers

Many Hats offers professional development workshops tailored for freelancers to enhance skills, stay up-tp-date, and advance careers.

www.many-hats.org

Eleanor @eleanorturney.co.uk · 20h

In an act of astonishing hubris, I have had both flu and covid vaccines today, in the same arm. God help me parenting a four-year-old whirlwind all day tomorrow...

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 3d

IMPORTANT

All freelancers, self-employed, creatives

This is the first I've heard of this, but the Department for Business and Trade is running a consultation on the scourge of late payments, they want to introduce new legislation to tackle poor practices

Deadline to respond is 23 October

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Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 8d

I am leading a workshop on freelancing while neurodivergent for Eleanor at the Birmingham Hippodrome on Monday December 8. There is a half-price place free for a freelancer who otherwise couldn’t afford it. More here, plus crispy M&M chat: www.many-hats.org/events/freel...

Eleanor @eleanorturney.co.uk · 8d

My new business many-hats.org is LIVE.

Professional development for freelancers, with workshops led by some amazing people including @ambermb.bsky.social @verybrinteresting.bsky.social @cloreleadership.bsky.social @katbrownwrites.com @mazhedgehog.bsky.social @nadpatel.bsky.social

Please share!

The words MANY HATS in black caps with a series of rainbow-coloured hats arranged in a circle around the M

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Eleanor @eleanorturney.co.uk · 8d

Thanks pal. Exciting and nervous...

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Eleanor @eleanorturney.co.uk · 8d

The first 8 workshops are bookable now: Pitching and partnerships, Climate literacy, Marketing and branding yourself, Freelancing as a neurodiverse person, Making Tax Digital, A beginners' guide to tax, Global perspectives and Your leadership toolkit.

Tell your freelance friends!

many-hats.org

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Eleanor @eleanorturney.co.uk · 8d

My new business many-hats.org is LIVE.

Professional development for freelancers, with workshops led by some amazing people including @ambermb.bsky.social @verybrinteresting.bsky.social @cloreleadership.bsky.social @katbrownwrites.com @mazhedgehog.bsky.social @nadpatel.bsky.social

Please share!

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Eleanor @eleanorturney.co.uk · 9d

Aaaaand in Birmingham motorists destroy Low Traffic Neighbourhood barriers, speed through pedestrian crossings, park wherever they like, and daily endanger, injure and kill cyclists and pedestrians. Another way is possible, but it requires more political backbone than we're likely to find here.

John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 9d

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...

Paris too

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Eleanor @eleanorturney.co.uk · 10d

@jonturney.bsky.social seems like you might know someone?

Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 10d

Things only a comedian/producer would post: I AM LOOKING FOR A TRUMPETER IN BRISTOL AVAILABLE THIS WEEK.

Long shot, but let me know. I will not block joke answers as some people do but I also won't laugh at them. I *might* roll my eyes indulgently.

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Gema @gema.bsky.social · 11d

Urban wildlife of south east London

A Henry Hoover sans nozzle contemplating freedom on the streets of south east London

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Eleanor @eleanorturney.co.uk · 12d

Well that sure took us a while but @cai.zone and I have now both strangled a horse AND found the Good Ending, but we died in a LOT of ways first.

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Eleanor @eleanorturney.co.uk · 12d

This weekend’s cake, for someone who was rather less than 70. (She’s four, and very deep in a princess phase.)

A cake made to look like the skirt of a ballgown, with a Barbie doll stuck in it so the whole thing looks like a princess in a massive pink dress.

A slice of vanilla sponge with pink buttercream and pink icing

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 17d

We don’t need shoddy American autism panic imports when we’ve got British-made conspiracies that we successfully exported all over the world

Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 17d

Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins?

He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions.

So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?

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Eleanor @eleanorturney.co.uk · 17d

By this logic, the Landlord is actually the parent of any child or children conceived in the property.

Purplepingers ☭ @purplepingers.bsky.social · 17d

An update on that insane lease term where the landlord owns everything you create during the tenancy:

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Eleanor @eleanorturney.co.uk · 17d

It's just cake, and then fondant icing to look like cheese :)

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Eleanor @eleanorturney.co.uk · 18d

It is possible I am eating the last of the blue cheese bit now :)

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Eleanor @eleanorturney.co.uk · 18d

Happy birthday, @jonturney.bsky.social.
Here is the cake I made at the weekend.

A cheese board made entirely of different cakes that look like cheeses.

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Eleanor @eleanorturney.co.uk · 22d

As the world continues to be a terrible place, I need you all to know that my friend's dinosaur-obsessed one-year-old saw dinosaurs with feathers at the Natural History Museum and now calls them "fluffy rar-rars".

FLUFFY RAR-RARS.