Hilary lead some of the team from the Print House in the absence of Brahma who is unwell......Get well soon B

The Print House team went along the greenway to meet the rest of the team at Park Village Oasis

Suzie met us with a couple of jobs this evening,clearing a disused area that they plan to plant a wild meadow and dismantle a gazebo which had become twisted and broken in the recent high winds.

Jobs completed Suzie invited us to their Oasis embrace the Irish event on Sunday 24th March

Next week are heading to help Get Out so Sign up and hopefully Brahma will be well enough to join us

As I rode easterly racking my grey matter for a thought provoking question to lubricate the start of our session, I came up with emphatically nothing. Asides from builder related questions, which I couldn't bring myself to asking. Luckily, Rosie and I whipped up some words about design; "what's the ugliest or most annoying building?". Some ugly gaffs in Farringdon, The Walkie Talkie building and the The Strata were easily picked. Some good finds here if you want to a further delve into fugly construction.

Rolling down the Greenway we snaked over to Park Village Oasis, as did our chat, from first impressions to Malcom Gladwell books and builder tales. We were warmly greeted upon arrival, given the scoop about the community garden (the council forgot they owned it....) and led to our spot to transform. Luckily Dan showed up at this point, some say he has the energy of six pedigree horses, I can't confirm or deny this. What I do know is that the section we were to clear will have an orchard planted there, and it was pretty gross. Full of litter and an abundance of thorny weeds. With the help of four other lovely local ladies from the area we completely rejuvenated the spot, completing the first phase of the orchard mission. The quality of the job was reflected in the offer of drinks, we kindly turned down the temptation of a beer and were treated to tropical juice and water.

We'll head back here, I'm sure they'll have much work to do in the coming weeks and months. It's great to have another local partner to lend our support to.

Next week we head the other way, Bow bound, as we work with Kieran, in his permaculture come youth charity. Sign up here

After refreshments following our first mission Rosa,Hilary,Kevin,Graham and I headed to Park Village Oasis,Matthew caught us up on route.

We arrived to find the garden closed,text and calls to the task owner with sadly no reply,we waited for about 30 minutes before heading to the pub for beers and boardgames. Matt introduced us to Herd Mentality

I got a very apologetic message later that day advising that the task owner that she had been at Stratford Library promoting the gardens bid for council funding,sadly the cover she had planned had not arrived.

New date being discussed.

A new place for us to visit in Newham. We are very lucky in Newham to have a lots of community gardening spaces.

Park Village Oasis is a plot of land that has been gifted to local residents to convert into a usable community space.

Suzie had contacted us with the request to move a pile of rubble,contaminated soil and weeds so they can build a shed.

As we had already completed a mission this morning we took a gentle walk to this mission.

After confirming what needed to be completed we set to work.

We are planning a return visit to help with other projects to help turn this concrete jungle into an east end oasis.