@heapsgood
Writer of stories in song about all manner of curious things! Occasionally known as Michael Mills. singing palaeo Prof Flint, and Wrangler in Chief at HeapsGood Productions, HeapsGood Music and Dinosaur University.
Thanks so much to the packed crowd who came out to see the premiere of the latest iteration of "A Curious Thing- The Story of Mary Anning." You rocked, and we would not be able to do what we do without you! ❤️
See you on the weekend! BOOK NOW at... linktr.ee/TheseCurious...
Thanks Tom! And thanks again, for your help and support in getting us here! 😀
All good wishes to @heapsgood.bsky.social and the cast of 'A Curious Thing' for their opening on Wednesday night at the Adelaide Fringe where the lucky folks in the audience will meet not one, not two, but three Mary Annings! Great to hear tickets are going fast.
All set and ready to go for opening night! 🥹
Hurry and book, as tickets for "A Curious Thing- The Story of Mary Anning" have been dancing out the door!
Here's the link...
linktr.ee/TheseCurious...
Less than 10 tickets remain for opening night this Wednesday! Get on it, folks!
Enjoying the latest addition of Royal Moments!
Tear it all down!
First show, “The Dinosaur Hunters” has premiered, and the all ages audience loved it! 🩷💙💚
Book here below if your in Adelaide and looking for something amazing for your young humans during the @adlfrin.ge
www.gluttony.net.au/shows/the-di...
![Top, title of the published paper 'On the discovery of an almost perfect specimen of the Plesiosaurus by the Rev. W.D. Conybeare'; right, portrait of Conybeare; left, centre, the later published plate of the specimen showing is unexpectedly long neck; left, bottom, extract from a book by Gideon Mantell 'The specimen... was discovered and developed by the late Mary Anning, of Lyme Regis and purchased by the late Duke of Buckingham for (I believe) 105£ [it was £110]. I had the pleasure of being present when Mr Conybeare read the Memoir at the meeting if the Geological Society in Bedford Street, Covent Garden; the specimen was placed in the vestibule at the entrance, for want of room' [actually it was too big and too heavy to carry upstairs].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vcl75pfg74dsskrzvynq5rez/bafkreihqhsk4widyx7imcsxo3wpa4kmnbrobqx5m7syp7dtblwhukznvwu@jpeg)
Top, title of the published paper 'On the discovery of an almost perfect specimen of the Plesiosaurus by the Rev. W.D. Conybeare'; right, portrait of Conybeare; left, centre, the later published plate of the specimen showing is unexpectedly long neck; left, bottom, extract from a book by Gideon Mantell 'The specimen... was discovered and developed by the late Mary Anning, of Lyme Regis and purchased by the late Duke of Buckingham for (I believe) 105£ [it was £110]. I had the pleasure of being present when Mr Conybeare read the Memoir at the meeting if the Geological Society in Bedford Street, Covent Garden; the specimen was placed in the vestibule at the entrance, for want of room' [actually it was too big and too heavy to carry upstairs].
20 February 1824: William Conybeare reads his much-anticipated paper on #MaryAnning 's complete Plesiosaurus to a packed meeting of the Geological Society. Gideon Mantell recalled that the specimen was in the hallway. It was too big & heavy to carry up the narrow staircase to the meeting room.
Scenes from the rehearsal room of “A Curious Thing- The Story of Mary Anning.”
Opens 25th February at the @adlfrin.ge
Book now at adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/a-...
Thanks for the shout out, Tom! And thanks for your part in helping us bring Mary authentically to life! 🙂
Loving how things are evolving in the rehearsal room, and can’t wait for opening night! 🎭
If you're anywhere around Adelaide, South Australia (or feel like popping over in the next few weeks), check out A Curious Thing, a wonderful musical of the story of #MaryAnning by @heapsgood.bsky.social which opens at the Adelaide Fringe on 25 February.
adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/a-...
Great news today that the geology collection at Lyme Regis Museum has been awarded Designated Status by Arts Council England. Not only does it occupy the site of #MaryAnning 's childhood home, but her spirit lives on in the museum's collecting and research.
www.lymeregismuseum.co.uk/designation/
Top left, portrait of Mary Anning in a green lock and straw bonnet and holding a hammer; bottom left, extract from 'Mary Anning, The Fossil Finder' published in 'All the Year Round' on 11 February 1865'; top right, Henry S. Fagan, the author of the article, sporting an impressive beard; bottom right, portrait of Charles Dickens, who edited the magazine, with somewhat unruly beard and hair.
The 11 February 1865 issue of All the Year Round, a magazine edited by Charles Dickens, carried an article about #MaryAnning. Often misattributed to Dickens and widely quoted, this inaccurate and unreliable article was by a Bath schoolmaster, Henry Fagan, who carelessly plagiarised earlier accounts.
Why does Mary Anning matter?
On International Women and Girls in Science Day, hear what some present day women of science have to say!
#WomenInScienceDay
#womeninscience
Do you have your tickets for the Dinosaurs hunters during the @adlfrin.ge ?
BOOK NOW at adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/th...
So, he watched it, and not Kid Rock? Bahahahahahahaha!
Do you know any of the lyrics of the songs they sang? 😂
It is, indeed, tragic, that it has come to this. But I think it has to happen more, and be even louder, as more Americans need to realise it. We had an event here in Australia recently where the US national anthem was sung at the start, and everyone booed. The US is no longer the light on the hill.
The kids are alright! 🙂
Not much going on in there! 😂
Crockett: "Now my colleagues want to be the protectors of girls & women. I didn't hear them screaming this when Renee Good was killed in the middle of the street by the same people the vast majority of you just voted to give more money to. It was a lot of crickets, including about the Esptein files"
A current writing job has me thinking about the brilliant, insanely productive Richard Ellis again. I very much regret not telling him how influential he was to me; RIP 2024. An article on his work... tetzoo.com/blog/2024/6/...
The Venn diagram of ICE workers and January 6 rioters is a circle! It’s why they’re wearing masks.
Calling all runners!
Please consider supporting our son's 100km run on his 18th birthday for the mental health organisation Headspace.
His motivations 👉 www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
His fundraising page 👉 www.mycause.com.au/page/385454/...
#Running #MentalHealth @scidocmartin.bsky.social
Hi from Australia… it’s the lack of caring by millions of your people, who have no interest in holding your vile and repulsive President to account. As of this moment, the rest of the world hates the US, and we’re moving on without you. It will take more than a generation to get us back.
That this is even happening tells the rest of the world how f-d the US is right now! Viva la resistance! ✊🏽
I’m sharing Aliya’s entire opening statement. We owe it to her, and those who no longer have a voice, to watch. youtu.be/zrcW8SZtYpI?...
Portrait of Mary Anning wearing a green cloak and straw bonnet, holding a hammer and with a basket over her arm.
Extract from a newspaper: 'Mary Anning, a female in humble lite, residing at Lyme Regis having by great industry and perseverance attained considerable proficiency in the science of Geology, was lately, by the sudden death of a gentleman to whom she had entrusted, without receiving any acknowedgement, a small property of about £200, the fruits of her savings, to invest for her in the most advantageous manner reduced to straitened circumstances, while her health was impaired from the hardship to which she had exposed herself, and the distress of mind consequent on her loss. A number of the most distinguished members of the Geological Society, Messrs. Lyell, Murchison, Drs. Buckland and Bostock, Colonel Sykes &c., interested themselves very much for this meritorious individual, and represented her case to Lord Melbourne with a view to obtain a small pension for her. His Lordship found, on inspecting the pension list, that it was full; and considering that Mary Anning is one of those individuals on whom it was intended that the public bounty should be bestowed, he ordered £300 to be granted to Trustees to be disposed of in the manner which they might conceive best adapted for securing to her some provision for her declining years'
February 1836: newspapers across the country report that #MaryAnning, defrauded of her savings, had been awarded £300 from the government after her friends at the Geological Society lobbied the Prime Minister. With a further £200 they had collected in Dublin in 1835, this gave her an annuity of £25.
