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Hayden Lorimer
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Soaring words in support of every public library from Liz Berry. I twilight-listened, a wee but teary-eyed, in the grounds of our now closed Woodside Library 1883-2023.

Do listen and listen again to this wonderful elegiac essay.

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November 4, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Great to hear @slipshodspeller.bsky.social @uoegeosciences.bsky.social
doing weekend duty and going live to Radio Stations across SE (Berkshire, Oxford, Solent, Dorset, Isle of Wight) about Wintering Well and ‘Living with SAD’ ☀️☀️☀️

Listen here about 10.17 onwards

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Radio Berkshire - Listen Live - BBC Sounds
Listen live to Radio Berkshire on BBC Sounds
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November 2, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Lovely to learn that Light is a Right, our Guide to Wintering Well, popped up as an inspiring source for wider spiritual reflection on BBC R4 Thought for the Day.

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Today - 01/11/2025 - BBC Sounds
Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Wonderful to see the @pressandjournal.co.uk cover our ‘Wintering Well at the Library’ programme and our friends at @orkneylibrary.bsky.social

@slipshodspeller.bsky.social @uofgnews.bsky.social @uofgges.bsky.social

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How new Sad seasonal depression boxes in Orkney aim to brighten long winter nights
A set of boxes, aimed at those helping those suffering from Seasonal Affective Disorder, are now available for loan from the library service
www.pressandjournal.co.uk
October 31, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Just enough of Friday to share @nhslanarkshire.bsky.social new ‘Wintering well’ web pages, inspired by our SAD research! Wow!
Lovely to collaborate with Digital Psychological Services.

@uofglasgow.bsky.social @slipshodspeller.bsky.social

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A Guide To Wintering Well - Lanarkshire Mind Matters - NHS Lanarkshire
When people imagine NHS psychology, they often imagine sitting in a room with a therapist and discussing their problems. How can we help you?
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October 31, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Amazing to learn about the level of demand from Orcadian library-users. Do hope that everyone queued up on the reserve list soon gets their share of sunlight. All hail the Wintering Well Box and our wonderful public library partners!!!

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orkneylibrary.bsky.social Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 17d
We've been overwhelmed by the response to our new Wintering Well Kits. The batch of 10 additional kits including SAD lamps have also now been catalogued and are all heading out on loan. We'll fulfil reservations as soon as we can once the kits are returned.
A SAD lamp and booklet on the beach
October 30, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Our project partner Living Life to the Full is giving a webinar on free online SAD resources later this afternoon. Details here:

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October 29, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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Great to see Prof Hester Parr (@hesterparr.bsky.social) of @uofgges.bsky.social featured in this BBC News piece showcasing the Wintering Well project she leads with Prof Hayden Lorimer (@slipshodspeller.bsky.social) of the University of Edinburgh.

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How to cope with long winter nights when the clocks go back
More than a million people in the UK experience symptoms of Seasonal Affective Disorder - but a project is aiming to help people in Orkney look after their mental health.
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October 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy - a tale of significant fortunes made and how their investments percolated into the Scottish economy and wider society.
Free to download from Univ of London press.
#Glasgow #skystorians #Scotland 📚🗃️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Book jacket for Stephen Mullen's The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy 1775-1838. Background image of ships in a harbour.
October 25, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Full spectrum coverage! Perfectly timed for the changing of the clocks…
October 25, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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Great wee package showcasing the value of the Wintering Well Box loan-scheme in public libraries. Hats off to @orkneylibrary.bsky.social for introducing the scheme and project spokesperson @hesterparr.bsky.social
hesterparr.bsky.social Hester Parr @hesterparr.bsky.social · 24d
Happy to have talked about the @orkneylibrary.bsky.social library and ‘Wintering well boxes’ in loan in Orkney and East Dumbartonshire for BBC news at 7 in Scotland last night - catch up at around 22minutes in @uofgnews.bsky.social @uofgges.bsky.social

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October 23, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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We are excited to be partnering with the magnificent @orkneylibrary.bsky.social to launch a ‘Wintering Well’ library loan scheme. Community link workers are also supporting this roll out of the ‘Living with SAD’ resources - catch the news 6.30 mins into the broadcast @slipshodspeller.bsky.social.
Around Orkney - 22/10/2025 - BBC Sounds
News, features and weather for Orkney, including the daily community diary.
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October 22, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Boxes of sunlight will be offered to people in Orkney to help with low winter mood as part of the Living with SAD project led by Prof @hesterparr.bsky.social of @uofgges.bsky.social and Prof Hayden Lorimer (@slipshodspeller.bsky.social) of Edinburgh Uni.

More here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...
Professor Hayden Lorimer of the University of Edinburgh, Wintering Well box user Claire Charlwood, and Professor Hester Parr of the University of Glasgow are pictured in Kirkintilloch’s William Patrick library in October 2024
October 22, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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If you caught BBC Radio 4’s Winter Well, one of the voices heard is Neina Sheldon, Founder of Make Light Matter. Her Bright in Winter programme starts on 27 Oct and is designed to help you feel happier, healthier, and more energised through the darker months. Join up: brightinwinter.eventbrite.co.uk
October 21, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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During the making of Winter Well, we gathered more material than we could manage to fit in five episodes. Happily, it has a perfect home here on BBC Scotland’s Outdoor Podcast.

@alecfinlay.bsky.social describes the power of the view and a vision for staying put.

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Scotland Outdoors - The Power of the View with Alec Finlay - BBC Sounds
Poet and Artist Alec Finlay shares his experience of chronic illness with Hayden Lorimer
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October 18, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Fifth and final episode of Winter Well on air BBC Radio 4 today: how should we anticipate our winters yet to come?

Big thanks to all contributing folks who gave voice to experience and expertise. And esp to Helen Needham, producer whizz and all-round winter wonder.

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Winter Well - Episode 5 - Winters of the Future - BBC Sounds
A guide to thriving in winter, offering advice on how to get through the darker months.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 17, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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Today on Radio 4 is Episode 5 of ‘Winter Well’ we hear thoughts about living in the future, and learning from people with lived experience of SAD.

… with the wise voices of @alecfinlay.bsky.social, Ruth and @slipshodspeller.bsky.social

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Light is a right?
October 17, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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In today’s episode of Winter Well connections get drawn between darkness and dormancy, and we find out why “coorying in” is a seasonal kind of self-care.

Tune in, BBC Radio 4 @ 1.45pm or catch it on Sounds _anytime_!

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Winter Well - Episode 4 - Embrace the Darkness - BBC Sounds
A guide to thriving in winter, offering advice on how to get through the darker months.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 16, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Today it’s possible to hear about ‘Embracing the dark’ in Episode 4 of Winter Well on Radio 4 with @slipshodspeller.bsky.social.

Insightful voices and perspectives on slowing down in winter and changing our expectations of ourselves.

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October 16, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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Third helping of Winter Well on air soon.

(Just before The Archers for those who like to listen live to Radio 4!)

Episode 3 - ‘Get Out and Notice’ shares light-filled ideas and activities in the open air.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Winter Well - Episode 3 - Get Out and Notice - BBC Sounds
A guide to thriving in winter, offering advice on how to get through the darker months.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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@slipshodspeller.bsky.social is on the radio again today with Episode 3 of ‘Winter Well’

Noticing light and winter as part of new seasonal routines is a feature of our guided CBT resources from project partners ‘Living Life to the Full’ : llttf.com/sad/.

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Winter Well - Episode 3 - Get Out and Notice - BBC Sounds
A guide to thriving in winter, offering advice on how to get through the darker months.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Early afternoon listening!
Winter Well is on again today.
Episode 2 - ‘Let the Light In’.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Beyond the radio series, there’s plenty to play around with in our e-guidebook:

issuu.com/livingwithsa...

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October 14, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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Winter Well is on air BBC Radio 4 this week.

An audio guide to thriving in winter, with advice from medics, artists, poets and future-gazers on simple but effective ways to bring light into your life during the darkest part of the year.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

@hesterparr.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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“Things have changed on the ground.”

@longbarrowpress.bsky.social walking in memory of memory.

So much here.

Forget about Netflix. Scroll this route for proper descriptive drama…
longbarrowpress.bsky.social Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · Sep 30
A walk from Leeds to Goole, via the River Aire, the Aire and Calder Navigation, the Knottingley and Goole Canal, the New Junction Canal and the Dutch River, 6.45am to 9.52pm Friday 26 September.

An improvised, illustrated thread of indeterminate length, part reflection, part reconstruction. 1/
Shipping containers on the waterside at Stourton, two miles south-east of Leeds city centre.
October 3, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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A ‘Living with SAD’ Wintering Well event with @slipshodspeller.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM