In this episode we speak with Andy who is retired and supports his community in many ways.

This episode was sponsored by Waltham Forest Council.
Loretta was nominated by Cllr Shabana Dhedi

(Recorded on 15th September, 2020 for HSpark radio station)

Andy’s choice of music

Andy’s resources

Refurbishing cuckoo clocks, connecting with neighbours in the community and being in service without expectation.

In this episode we speak with Loretta who is a reflexologist in Higham Hill in Walthamstow.

This episode was sponsored by Waltham Forest Council.
Loretta was nominated by Cllr Karen Bellamy.

(Recorded on 17th September, 2020 for HSpark radio station))

Loretta’s choice of music

(Recorded on 21st May, 2020 for HSpark radio station)

In this episode we speak with Gordon who is the chair of the Highams Park residents association. A wonderful group which has brought the community together for events, conversations and to look after the area and conservation.

Gordon’s resources

BY THOMAS HARDY

I leant upon a coppice gate
When Frost was spectre-grey,
And Winter’s dregs made desolate
The weakening eye of day.
The tangled bine-stems scored the sky
Like strings of broken lyres,
And all mankind that haunted nigh
Had sought their household fires.

The land’s sharp features seemed to be
The Century’s corpse outleant,
His crypt the cloudy canopy,
The wind his death-lament.
The ancient pulse of germ and birth
Was shrunken hard and dry,
And every spirit upon earth
Seemed fervourless as I.

At once a voice arose among
The bleak twigs overhead
In a full-hearted evensong
Of joy illimited;
An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small,
In blast-beruffled plume,
Had chosen thus to fling his soul
Upon the growing gloom.

So little cause for carolings
Of such ecstatic sound
Was written on terrestrial things
Afar or nigh around,
That I could think there trembled through
His happy good-night air
Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew
And I was unaware.