Grace Hurford PhD

@ghurford.bsky.social

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mountaineer, chutney/ cake maker, based in UK Lake District.❤️EU ; trying to be 💚; v lecturer in health policy leadership/MBA dissertation sup RKCollege Zurich.😷 masking until we get st vaccines. #LongCovidAdvocacy

Flying back from Lofoten islands
Prince William and Kate Middleton are known to love Holkham beach in Norfolk and regularly visit the sprawling sandy dunes with their three children, Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis, over the school holidays. The idyllic spot offers miles and miles of unspoilt golden sand, with nearby pinewoods offering a refreshing respite from the heat
A graph with a big jump in diabetes cases in 2021-22 to 2024. Correlates with Covid infections.
Huge cliffs towering above the village of Reine with little red fishing houses on stilts above the sea.
Snow on the summit of Munken Nord top
Watermelon, feta cheese and black olive salad in a red onion and lime dressing , tumbled with parsley and mint in olive oil.
Pale blue skies and bright blue seas ringed by little red houses on stilts, wth the jagged Lofoten peaks circled around
Looking down onto Reine from the summit of Reinebringen (1900 built steps extraordinary)
Petition: “Make Farage President. Make Keir Starmer resign.” Why was this petition rejected: “it’s not clear what the petition is asking the UK government or Parliament to do.”
1.5 litres of duty free Chill out Chenin Blanc for 179 kroner (@£15 )
There was v little movement between left and right since 2024
There was very little movement between the left and right since 2024
Global costs of Trump deal 2.2 trillion
Table E: Aggregated trends in cocaine residues in seven EU cities’ wastewater, 2011–24 (data reproduced from the European Union Drugs Agency sewage analysis core group.) UK is highest (red) at 64%
A broken Uk/ EU heart with the words “not in my name”.
A bike on a bench above Derwentwater with blencathra behind . Cloudy wth blue gaps and a hint of sunshine
Pristine paved path looking south through the bog ..bounded by a receding fence line with blue skies above
The path to the Shenneval bothy with heavy grey skies above
Tumultuous grey blue skies above a jagged ridge line of mountain with slivers of snow still in the gullies. Foreground is a boggy hillside.
Cartoon: a long queue for the comforting lies desk. No one queuing for the unpleasant truths desk.
A very wet murky view of Suilven
Big blue skies and lowering clouds above the snowy gullies of An Teallach, with an ochre boggy foreground
Snowy rocky summit slope with a hiker against a tumultuous cloudy sunny and blue sky
A long Q for comforting lies and a very short Q for unpleasant truths
Blue skies and fluffy white clouds above Robinson and Hindscarth . Bright green fields dotted with sheep in foreground.
A climber emerges on the lower slabs of Cam Crag ridge with blue skies behind. Langstrath beck snakes along the valley and the pointed peak of Harrison Stickle can just be seen against the skyline.
A split heart with EU flag one side and Union Jack the other, and the phrase “NOT IN MY NAME”.
An brand new illustrated text of Icarus 🇬🇷
Satirical Vertlantic headline: It’s been a complete mystery why there has been a drop in healthy Life Expectancy
Col by Bessy Boot
Charts showing healthy life expectancy dropping off a cliff since 2020- particularly pronounced in females.
Cow cooling off in river below the slopes of Causey pike
Michel Gerard, played by Canadian actor Yanic Truesdale. Michel is the grumpy, sarcastic, yet loyal concierge at the Independence Inn and later the Dragonfly Inn
Michelle Mone
Trump: “Iran has just announced that their Strait of Iran (sic) is fully open and ready for full passage. Thank you! “
Rejoin 43% Stick with Brexit 42% Closer ties 12-% Not now 3%
Derwentwater Lake District
Gini coefficient by country 2021 OECD
Blue skies, white snow
“Hugh abbot MP” with furrowed brow
Snowy forest with a tunnel of sunshine pouring through and blue skies and mountains beyond.
Snooooow ❄️ 🇫🇷
Uk mortality rates with dramatic drop from 2020
Graph of steady mortality rates across Uk plunging after 2020.
Spoof Allister Heath headline: “why Gibraltar is the final fatal symptom of Britain’s moral collapse”
Blue sky, a white Skiddaw and Blencathra in background, deep blue Derwentwater in middle, and orange-bracken sunny hillside in foreground with a lone walker coming out of the shade.
A snowy Blencathra against bright blue sky at 10 am today
Blue sky from a snowy Blencathra
Sanwar cosying up to Mandelson last year
Sarwar cosying up to Mandelson last year
Michael fabricant in a US flying jacket
A long queue of people at the “comforting lies” desk, and no-one at the “unpleasant truths desk” artist/ Scott Chambers
Margaret Thatcher driving a tank
Pete Hegseth pasted into the roller skating Martini girl advert of 1981
A large queue of people at the “comforting lies” desk and no one at the “unpleasant truths” desk.
32 member countries of NATO 1/2
A masked climber powers up an indoor climbing wall
Evergreen trees plastered with snow, as a distant figure heads down a sunny trail into the blue yonder.
A skier weaving through deep powder with misty forest beyond
A snow frosted deciduous tree that looks like a sculpture against a bright blue sky in the French alps.