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Sarah Dunnigan 🍃
@sarahdunnigan.bsky.social
hopeful gardener. trainee therapist. mamma of dogs and cats. teaches & writes about Scottish lit - children's, medieval, women's, fairy tales, folklore 🌿 she/her
Thank you!
We’re delighted to shared details of this free, 1-day symposium, organised by our friends and colleagues @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social and Dr Lois Burke, on 12 Dec 2025.

Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/investigat....

More info here: www.swinc.englit.ed.ac.uk/investigatin....

Do share widely!
October 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Reposted by Sarah Dunnigan 🍃
We're so looking forward to this!🧡 Please RT & share widely!
Investigating Irish & Scottish Women Writers of Children’s Literature
12 Dec @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social – free

Exploring regional & national identities in children’s literature c.1750–1940 – an era of major cultural & political upheaval in Ireland & Scotland
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/investigat...
Investigating Irish & Scottish Women Writers of Children's Literature
A one-day symposium on Irish and Scottish women writers of children's literature between 1750 and 1940.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 1:41 PM
After the rain the garden feels so replenished 💚
June 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Rose ruffles 💜
June 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Softness 🌿
June 1, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Brightness 💛
May 26, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Lilac hues 💜
May 20, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Reposted by Sarah Dunnigan 🍃
Today's performative clampdown on migrants will gut our care homes of desperately needed staff.

We are *already* short of over 150k carers.

Banning foreign care workers will only exacerbate this - increasing suffering of society's most vulnerable members & pressures on the NHS.

It's madness.
May 12, 2025 at 9:36 AM
That comforting tap-tap at the window 💜🐦
May 12, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Rest 🧡
May 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
The moon is lovely tonight 🤍
May 7, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Horse chestnut flowers for the first Sunday of May. This beautiful old tree is laden far and wide with these bright candles 🌿💛
May 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
So glad you all enjoyed it! Can't quite believe this is actually open now! 💚🌿 #naturenurture
This morning, @newdramrising.bsky.social, the little apprentice, and I visited the wonderful @selcie.bsky.social ‘Nurture through Nature in Children’s Books’ at the Museum of Edinburgh. If you get chance, do take time to see it (on until 7 Sept). Congratulations, @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social
May 3, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Grass and greenworld all together' - Hopkins, 'The May Magnificat' 💚🌿
May 1, 2025 at 9:46 PM
A sprig of garden lilac for precious #MayDay 💜🌿
May 1, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Rain and birdsong in the wee garden 🌿
April 26, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Iris 💙
April 24, 2025 at 10:24 AM
'the peace of wild things' - Wendell Berry 💚
April 23, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The lilac is coming into flower now 💜
April 21, 2025 at 7:05 PM
This grief is making the greening and the beauty of the woods even more vivid 💚
April 20, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Matthew G. Dunnigan. 14.7.31 - 18.4.25. My dearest, loveliest Dad, and a wonderful doctor all his life.
April 18, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Wildflowers on Holy Island 🤍🌿
April 17, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Reposted by Sarah Dunnigan 🍃
You can now sign up to attend the excellent Nature Nurture symposium organised by @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social. Details below ⬇️

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nature-nur...
Nature Nurture: SELCIE Symposium
Edinburgh’s Childgarden Heritage, Cultures of Care, and Scottish Women’s Writing
www.eventbrite.co.uk
April 16, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Little gold stars of the woods 💛
April 15, 2025 at 5:16 PM