Absolute Beginners
I first met Bernie Mitchell at a Be2camp event and I’d always felt that he was about ten steps ahead of me in his use of social media. If it took signing up for a course to find his secret it was a price I was willing to pay. So this week I found myself in the...
Fifteen
Today is a bit of a milestone for me as it marks the fifteenth anniversary of my business. Cast your mind back to the summer of 1996 – the Summer Olympic Games had just started in Atlanta, Wannabee by the Spice Girls was on the radio and the X Files were on TV....
Life is a Rollercoaster
Yesterday I used Twitter to ask the question “what is your top presenting tip?” as I was finalising the slides for my talk at the River Restoration Conference so presenting skills were very much on my mind. I had some wonderful responses so I thought I...
Brief Encounter
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...About Me
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.