Coming Back To Butterflies
Neil Dickinson
- Regions:
- Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Essex, Hertfordshire
- Notice Period:
- Emergency (maybe less than one week's notice)
- Type:
- Hobby
- Fee:
- Paid: ca. £60 plus travel depending on distance
- Category:
- Nature
- Updated:
- 2nd September 2024
- Tagged:
- Butterflies | Photography | Britain | Cancer
This illustrated talk tells how the speaker's boyhood interest in Britain's butterflies was surprisingly re-invigorated in later life by a cancer diagnosis. Lots of photographs taken by the speaker of beautiful butterflies in the British countryside and gardens presented through this personal story. Length of talk 50 to 60 minutes. Can be adapted by arrangement.
Views: 1454 | Enquiries: 5About Neil Dickinson
My working life was spent as an industrial chemist and I have enjoyed a variety of other interests yet I’ve always been particularly fascinated by the ingenuity and brilliance of humans over history to develop resources and shape them to our own needs, be it for great good or to terrible ends, and sometimes for both, as accepted wisdom and circumstances have often changed over time. I present several illustrated talks on various topics with, when appropriate, a degree of humour attached. I always look forward to questions from my audience at the end of the talks which can reveal some fascinating further details and discussion.
Other Talks on SpeakerNet by Neil Dickinson
- Arsenic’s Toxic Legacy: People, Places, Pests and Peppermints
- A Kiwi in Cambridge: Lord Rutherford, the Father of Nuclear Physics
- Early Adventures in Radioactivity
- The Road to Novichok: Nerve Agents - the deadliest substances known
- Japan: the last Shogun to the present Emperor
- Japanese Gardens: What, Why and How?
- Mercury: The Mysterious Mobile Metal
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