Babushka's Children (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781477696262)

Michael Oldham was born in Birmingham in 1946. He was a student at Plymouth Polytechnic and Sheffield University and qualified both as an architect and as a landscape architect. He worked in local government and private practice on a wide range of projects and won several prizes. He was the founding President of the European Foundation for Landscape Architecture and later became Vice-President of the Landscape Institute where he also served as Chairman of its Education Committee for several years. Michael is also an artist, specialising in watercolours, and a jeweller working in silver and gold, with assay marks registered in Birmingham. Since 2001, he has been living in the French Alps where he continues to engage in a variety of professional activities as well as sporting interests including sailing, paragliding, skiing, and mountaineering.