Having read some fascinating and inspiring blogs to mark Ada Lovelace Day I was inspired to write my own blog post. Ada was the daughter of Lord Byron and wrote the world’s first computer program in the 19th century. Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of...
It seems it isn’t easy being green, especially if you are the Chicago River. For the last forty years they have been dyeing the water the brightest shade of emerald green to mark St Patrick’s Day. It isn’t your monitor playing up. The water really is...
When Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard’s characters meet for the first time at Milford Station, they have no idea how their relationship might develop. In David Lean’s romantic film the Brief Encounter of the title leads to an intense relationship, with an...
My name is Claire Thirlwall and I’m a chartered landscape architect. I run Thirlwall Associates, a landscape architecture consultancy based in Oxfordshire.
I work with architects, engineers, planners, project managers and other construction professionals. I also work as a sub-consultant to other landscape architects.