Love is a Toad – on joy, grief, and nature nerdiness
Talk by Lucy Lapwing, author and wildlife campaigner
Free event, pre-booking required due to limited capacity. Bookings open early September.
Most of us love nature; it’s a great source of fascination, comfort and awe. But we’re also living in a time of great loss, witnessing decline of biodiversity all around us. Join Lucy Lapwing as she explores how we can carry these two feelings at the same time, themes explored in her first book, Love is a Toad. Lucy will weave in encounters with wildlife in the UK, bringing a bucketful of nature nerdiness to her talk.
Lucy Lapwing grew up in west Lancashire in the nineties. As a kid, she was fascinated by things that scuttled and fluttered and slimed, but it was only as an adult that she really came to know the nature under her nose. Now a wildlife campaigner, Lucy writes about nature on Instagram and works behind the scenes on BBC Springwatch. Outside – and indeed inside – of work, you’re likely to spot her rootling in the mud, collecting feathers and bones, or whispering compliments to spiders. Lucy now lives on the Isle of Bute.