The Metropolis

"You could almost eat the soil" at the Olympic park

Mike Pollitt | Friday 3 February, 2012 11:12

●

“Never, in the fields of leisure and national prestige, has so much dirt been scrubbed so expensively and with so much hope invested in the particles. You could almost eat the soil now.”

Filed in:

Snipe Highlights

Some popular articles from past years

  1. 9 poems about London: one for each of your moods
  2. The five best places in London to have an epiphany
  3. Punk brewery just as sexist and homophobic as the industry they rail against
  4. Could red kites be London's next big nature success story?
  5. Nice Interactive timeline lets you follow Londoners' historic fight against racism
  6. Silencing the Brick Lane curry touts could be fatal for the city's self-esteem
  7. Hope and despair in Woolwich town centre
  8. Random Interview: Eileen Conn, co-ordinator of Peckham Vision
  9. Nice map of London's fruit trees shows you where to pick free food
  10. Diary of the shy Londoner