#rivercities

Love the Lea festival! 

What a lovely day it became even though it started off with som heavy showers of rain.

The water body booth was well visited and the rivercities performance a magic ending to a festival that brought together both people and the thoughts how to make a more sustainable ecosystem with the river Lea in focus.

Thank you who showed up and made it a beautiful community event!

" I like working for the Canal and River trust that is basically it.

I grew up in Northfolk which is very green, and here in London it is not so many green spaces.

I am attracted to water, I am out in the sun and I get to talk to nice people. I have learnt so much from this job."

" I prefer living alone. Living on this boat is quiet and intimate and when I step out I am suddenly out on the street. I have lived in a boat for three years.

Me and my friend swim in this river."

" We are working next to the river. We saw rats swimming in there in this morning. It is horrible, so we do our best not to fall in there.

Yesterday we spotted a boat sinking.

Our job is to put spikes on the bridge for stopping people from make graffiti ."