Haringey borders hosts tent city for workers driven under canvas by London property prices

"It is a mystery to many how ordinary people can afford to live in the UK's capital.", says a story in The Guardian this morning. "Consistently ranked one of the most expensive cities in the world, London's house prices are ever more ludicrous, even in these dark days of pay freezes, mass redundancies and bankruptcy."

The result has been to create a series campsites encircling the city. This is how some people make the sums work: they're shunning bricks and mortar and living in tents, caravans and mobile homes.

Just outside Haringey, in Lee Valley, Edmonton, near Ikea and next door to the athletics centre, is a site set up last year by Lucy Boggis, 21. In the past she'd spent her days chasing amateur athletes up a climbing wall in her role as Tempest in the Sky series of Gladiators. Now, she is devoting all her energy to the 2012 Olympics, where she hopes to represent Britain in the heptathlon.

With no lottery funding, money is tight. So last September she decided to set up the campsite at the Lee Valley site, which is

Many of the site's residents work constructing the Olympic park, driving buses or in other jobs in the city, returning to their "real" homes at the weekend.

Tough life is a few mile away from our front doors, eh.

Read the full story in The Guardian.....