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