Eleanor
@eleanorturney.co.uk
Writer, editor and arts consultant. Theatre, editing, poetry, intersectional feminism, politics, writing, food and owls, mostly. Mum of two. New resident of Birmingham. She/her.
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Freelancers don’t get CPD from their employers and clients, so we need to invest in ourselves. I am really looking forward to running a Many Hats workshop for @eleanorturney.co.uk in December!
There are £10 and half-price places available so see if there's a workshop for you: www.many-hats.org
There are £10 and half-price places available so see if there's a workshop for you: 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
November 4, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Freelancers don’t get CPD from their employers and clients, so we need to invest in ourselves. I am really looking forward to running a Many Hats workshop for @eleanorturney.co.uk in December!
There are £10 and half-price places available so see if there's a workshop for you: www.many-hats.org
There are £10 and half-price places available so see if there's a workshop for you: www.many-hats.org
When I launched many-hats.org, I wanted to make sure the workshops are as accessible as possible. There are £10 and half-price places available, allocated by a lottery. Please see the website for more details and to enter the lottery!
October 20, 2025 at 11:11 AM
When I launched many-hats.org, I wanted to make sure the workshops are as accessible as possible. There are £10 and half-price places available, allocated by a lottery. Please see the website for more details and to enter the lottery!
The first Many Hats professional development for freelancers workshops are coming up in December 2025, with others in January, February and March.
Check out the upcoming workshops at many-hats.org and use EARLYBIRD25 to get £25 off any day-long workshop booked before the end of October!
Check out the upcoming workshops at many-hats.org and use EARLYBIRD25 to get £25 off any day-long workshop booked before the end of October!
October 14, 2025 at 11:01 AM
The first Many Hats professional development for freelancers workshops are coming up in December 2025, with others in January, February and March.
Check out the upcoming workshops at many-hats.org and use EARLYBIRD25 to get £25 off any day-long workshop booked before the end of October!
Check out the upcoming workshops at many-hats.org and use EARLYBIRD25 to get £25 off any day-long workshop booked before the end of October!
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
October 9, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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
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...
October 9, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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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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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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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October 7, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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
1/2
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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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...
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!
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!
October 1, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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...
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!
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!
October 1, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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!
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!
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.
October 1, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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.
@jonturney.bsky.social seems like you might know someone?
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.
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.
September 30, 2025 at 8:46 AM
@jonturney.bsky.social seems like you might know someone?
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Urban wildlife of south east London
September 29, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Urban wildlife of south east London
This weekend’s cake, for someone who was rather less than 70. (She’s four, and very deep in a princess phase.)
September 27, 2025 at 2:09 PM
This weekend’s cake, for someone who was rather less than 70. (She’s four, and very deep in a princess phase.)
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We don’t need shoddy American autism panic imports when we’ve got British-made conspiracies that we successfully exported all over the world
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?
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?
September 23, 2025 at 8:26 AM
We don’t need shoddy American autism panic imports when we’ve got British-made conspiracies that we successfully exported all over the world
By this logic, the Landlord is actually the parent of any child or children conceived in the property.
An update on that insane lease term where the landlord owns everything you create during the tenancy:
September 23, 2025 at 9:44 AM
By this logic, the Landlord is actually the parent of any child or children conceived in the property.
Happy birthday, @jonturney.bsky.social.
Here is the cake I made at the weekend.
Here is the cake I made at the weekend.
September 22, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Happy birthday, @jonturney.bsky.social.
Here is the cake I made at the weekend.
Here is the cake I made at the weekend.
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.
FLUFFY RAR-RARS.
September 18, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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.
FLUFFY RAR-RARS.
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What disgustingly autumnal weather (laudatory)
September 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
What disgustingly autumnal weather (laudatory)
Payments on account (paying tax on money you haven't earned yet as a freelancer) is a fucking insane system. How are we still doing this?!
August 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Payments on account (paying tax on money you haven't earned yet as a freelancer) is a fucking insane system. How are we still doing this?!
Working 2m from the freezer which C had the foresight to fill with ice lollies is very good, actually.
August 13, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Working 2m from the freezer which C had the foresight to fill with ice lollies is very good, actually.
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Summer is a time of connection, abundance and creative energy, but also one where freelancers can feel overstretched.
The Creative Freelancer’s Climate Almanac is a free resource designed to support artists, producers, and independent creatives to take climate action in seasonal, sustainable ways.
The Creative Freelancer’s Climate Almanac is a free resource designed to support artists, producers, and independent creatives to take climate action in seasonal, sustainable ways.
July 23, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Summer is a time of connection, abundance and creative energy, but also one where freelancers can feel overstretched.
The Creative Freelancer’s Climate Almanac is a free resource designed to support artists, producers, and independent creatives to take climate action in seasonal, sustainable ways.
The Creative Freelancer’s Climate Almanac is a free resource designed to support artists, producers, and independent creatives to take climate action in seasonal, sustainable ways.
Christ on a bike. (To be clear, @jonturney.bsky.social is asking me because I have a degree from Warwick, not becasue I had anything to do with this.)
Beyond parody. Loving the “connected ecosystem of staff, students and alumni”
Who eats who? Do tell
@eleanorturney.bsky.social
Who eats who? Do tell
@eleanorturney.bsky.social
Self-inflicted embarrassment for the University of Warwick — first it rebrands hyper-generically, then someone totally unhinged decides the *front page of the uni website* should say ‘Learn more about our Brand’.
July 23, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Christ on a bike. (To be clear, @jonturney.bsky.social is asking me because I have a degree from Warwick, not becasue I had anything to do with this.)
Me, trying to spell my name over the phone after very little sleep: "T for turtoise."
The Hyundai receptionist was extremely professional.
The Hyundai receptionist was extremely professional.
July 14, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Me, trying to spell my name over the phone after very little sleep: "T for turtoise."
The Hyundai receptionist was extremely professional.
The Hyundai receptionist was extremely professional.
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Ballet icon Carlos Acosta has been awarded an honorary degree by the University of Birmingham for his outstanding contribution to dance and culture. 👏 A powerful recognition of artistic excellence and impact.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Carlos Acosta receives honorary University of Birmingham degree
Birmingham Royal Ballet's director is one of the most influential arts figures, a university says.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 14, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Ballet icon Carlos Acosta has been awarded an honorary degree by the University of Birmingham for his outstanding contribution to dance and culture. 👏 A powerful recognition of artistic excellence and impact.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"WHY ARE YOU WEARING THAT FACE?" my three-year-old screams at me as I attempt to eat my breakfast.
Happy Monday, everyone!
Happy Monday, everyone!
July 7, 2025 at 9:56 AM
"WHY ARE YOU WEARING THAT FACE?" my three-year-old screams at me as I attempt to eat my breakfast.
Happy Monday, everyone!
Happy Monday, everyone!
Well, our day began with our 6-year-old spilling a whole cup of coffee across both of C's laptops. So that's good.
July 4, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Well, our day began with our 6-year-old spilling a whole cup of coffee across both of C's laptops. So that's good.