Wanstead Flats is a large area of open grassland in the south of Epping forest in North East London. It is a popular place for picnics, playing sports and enjoying nature. It is also a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and home to Jubilee Pond. My dad grew up in Manor Park down the road from Wanstead in the late 1950s. It was a rough and also very free childhood. He has many memories of playing in the Flats where he said he would often see huge rats running along ditches and along the edges of the hedgerows. Having grown up in Bristol in the West of England and now living in East London with my young family, it's interesting and connecting to know I'm walking and running in the place where my dad used to play. In the last year or so I've been developing an improvisation approach with two collaborators, Grant Smith and Natasha Zielazinski whereby we listen acutely and attentively to the sonic environment of the location we are in and through tuning into that environment we begin to respond in small 'micro' ways through attuned instrumental and object/activity based interventions. This stream will be a further attempt at this kind of sonic 'micro-ecology'.