We kicked off the evening naming ourselves and expressing which form of art we would give a go if we could, from improv comedy to lino printing to songwriting. After a nice jog through Crystal Palace, admiring the newly regenerated Italian Terraces, we arrived back at the Paxton Centre for our second annual table tightening championships.

The Paxton Centre is an arts cafe/workshop space with a built in gallery. It's cool. They're also a non-profit. Super cool.

We upturned the tables, unscrewed the legs, tightened them up on the inside, rescrewed them on, and levelled them out with the bits at the bottom. I'm not sure who won the championship. Everyone I guess.

After that we took a photo on the stairs as if we're Blazin' Squad and set off on our merry way.

Nice one, team. 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Emma, Mark, and Catherine spent a few sunny hours back with the ace Fieldwork Project on Saturday, continuing to dig the trench for a French drain (see photos for progress!) and painting their lovely big table in the polytunnel. We also had a go at excavating a big bit of flint that is sticking out into the trench - it probably needs a bit more work but it had a good wobble by the time we finished up. Ever the wonderful hosts, the Fieldwork team then fed us with some phenomenal home-made chips and Shakshuka, shared more about their work with wool from the farm, and took us to meet Bobby and the other sheep who live there.

A slight change of plan today, but nice to complete a useful job for the Fieldwork Project team!

We were tasked with turning a load of compost/manure into a new compost heap. What was a solid few feet to shift, we thought it would take days! But actually, we were wrapped up in 45 minutes.

Oh yeah, there were horses. Ponies actually.

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