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Flora Cornish
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Doing Methodology at LSE. Posting own views. Pacing with Long COVID. Qual & participatory methods. Community leadership in health/disaster. Disempower the powerful. Respect community agency. Love Grenfell💚 Stop genocide
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At Genesis cinema for The Palestine Exception - film about the treatment of US pro-Palestine protestors.

Its part of the London Palestine Film Festival 2025, lots of amazing films are on till 28 Nov

www.palestinefilm.org.uk
Cinema screen before the film starts, in brown, green and orange, reads "The Palestine Exception + Q&A"
November 17, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Spooky season on Hampstead Heath
Ragged scarecrow with pumpkin jack-o-lantern head stands under autumn trees, on a carpet of dead leaves
October 29, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Hats week for #ShowMeYourKnits I love making and wearing these soft squishy hats with malabrigo rios yarn and Two by Two pattern by Anne G. The pink, yellow and blue one is always in my coat pocket or on my head!
Three ribbed hats with a folded up brim on a grey background. One is an abstract rainbow, colour block design in bright pink, ochre and a heathered navy, the next is navy with narrow pink stripes and the third is in progress, a variegated pink/turquoise and pink fading together.
October 24, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Can report that autumn is coming nicely to the Swiss Jura! Turns out presenting a seminar at the University of Neuchatel offers stunning extra benefits!
Autumn trees in shades of green, yellow and orange are reflected in a still rives and framed by light grey limestone cliffs
October 13, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Living the good life, I just made this plum almond cake. Turned tasteless plums into a piece of magic and happy afternoon 😋

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Cake scattered with plums and flaked almonds on a white plate on a wooden table
September 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Tomorrow, Russell Square, London, 12 noon. It will be huge - add your presence if you can't stand genocide.
Poster for the 6 September National march for Gaza in London. Stop starving Gaza. End all arms sales. Defend the right to protest..12 noon Sat 6 September. Russell Square to Whitehall.
September 5, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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You guys are inspiring me to go big on this little embryo of a blanket! My 14 year old wanted a soft blanket, I started and wasn't sure if i have the stamina. I will persevere!
The start of a multicoloured mitred square knitted blanket, with needles in the 12th square, balls of leftover wool of assorted sizes, and a crumpled tote bag, on a grey canvas sofa.
July 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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🧶 #showmeyourknits WIP week
Mitred square blanket (thanks to @everydayknitter.bsky.social for the free instructions) in leftover Malabrigo Rios (so squishy 😍). Undecided how big it will become.
The first 8 and a half squares of a multi-coloured knitted patchwork blanket, with needles attached, lies on grey canvas. Colours are mostly on the blue end of the spectrum, with a yellow, red and brown for contrast.
July 8, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Thanks, it is much more contrasting than the sunny photo suggests.
Part of a garment in pink and grey garter stripes.
June 30, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Current #knitting #wip is loads of garter stripes for #showmeyourknits 🧶

Everyday Attitude by Susanne Sommer, in De Rerum Antigone linen yarn

Drying after an interim blocking to check length (my gauge got much looser between little swatch and big speedy knitting 😭)
Pink and grey narrow-striped tshirt lying on a faded slatted wooden outdoor table. Long cable knitting needles attached.
June 30, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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The world is insane. Cheers to the mural painters in Bantry, Co Cork, for their big hearts (photo from April 2025) ❤️🇵🇸
The gable end of a former cinema, painted with a mural covering the whole ground floor, with green, red, flowers, and "saoirse don phalastín" (free palestine). A sunny day. The old sign reads "the stella cinema"
June 19, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Silent walk commemorates 8 years since Grenfell
Green paper heart, with the words '8 years' in white, held above a sea of people walking under the train bridge at Ladbroke Grove station
June 14, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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#bloomscrolling
Unknown tiny white and lilac flowers beside garden mint in a blue glazed pot
June 13, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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#showmeyourkinits #knitting 🧶 cowl week

A double length cowl I made in fisherman's rib, using malabrigo rios yarn, to make it thick and cosy. The grey and turquoise reminded me of the flat pastel colours of dublin bay on an overcast day.
A thick double cowl in grey and turquoise ribs stands from a woman's shoulders to above the jawline
June 8, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Next Saturday, 14 June, is the 8th anniversary of Grenfell. It is hard to fathom.

Everybody is welcome at the silent walks, come if you can, to show solidarity and demand change 💚
June 5, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Baby blanket from 2023 for #showmeyourknits

Pattern is garter ripple squish by Louise Tilbrook, in Tribe yarns merino cloud (so soft). It is lovely but took me so long, am thinking of crochet for next baby blanket
A baby sized blanket in a rippling wavy pattern in a self-striping cornflower blue, mustard and maroon lies drying in the sun on a faded wooden table
June 5, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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I find their lifeforce so damn hopeful 🌱
(Hope being a practice, I have to water them!) 🥰
#bloomscrolling #hope
Pink hydrangeas starting to come out, from a mass of buds. Photo from above of a plant between a windowsill and doorframe
June 4, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Passiflora has just opened on our roof terrace! Happy spring time #bloomscrolling
Pinky purple single passiflora blossom against a bamboo screen with green leaves and buds in the background
May 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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With Architects for Gaza on Westminster bridge this afternoon #FreePalestine
Architects for Gaza banner in the sunshine with Palestinian flags
May 17, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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May 17, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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🧶#knitting
FO drying in the sunshine
Stephen West Painting Bricks mittens, with leftover scraps of Black and Blue DK from Midwinter yarns.

Recommend as a great project for pretty scraps
Two knitted mittens lie on a wooden outdoor table. With navy as a main colour, stripes of bright contrasting colours use slipped stitches to create a brick-like effect.
May 17, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Washing this linen WIP to check for stretchiness. Increases along the shoulderline may be too tight resulting in puckering 😥
Everyday Attitude top with Antigone linen.

Any tips on M1R and M1L in linen? 🙏🧶
#knitting
A knit, top-down summer top work in progress, with a few inches of pink and grey garter stripes in linen. Washed and drying in the sun.
May 17, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Thinking this morning on @seyeabimbola.bsky.social 's image of calls for "more research" as arodan - the fool's errand, distracting our focus from all we already know about injustice and health.

Wonderful event 🙏 @crismontenegro.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
Seye Abibola speaks from a lectern
May 8, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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"What is the purpose of research in a context of utter injustice?" Palestinian psychiatrist Samah Jafr asks us the question of our time, at this wonderful event to celebrate @seyeabimbola.bsky.social's new book book last night. Thank you, panel & @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
Panel of 4 speakers seated on stage, with windows showing the fading London light. Samah Jabr is speaking.
May 8, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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It is spring in North London!
April 10, 2025 at 7:46 PM