Dwayne Fields

I am.

I think I'm lucky that I get to do what I do.

But the joy of what I do comes from interactions with other people.

When I walked to the poll, I loved it.

It was great.

the moments that I found I loved most were the ones where I was interacting with other people, my teammates, a local hunter, somebody who lived in the Arctic when we were traveling through Africa in search of the source of the Nile.

Again, it was the interactions.

I do love people.

I love interacting with people.

And I think that's something that i think i get from my great grandma i remember being a you know a young kid four five six years old and i'd see her sat outside of our gate just on the small lane that we lived down and people would walk past and they'd stop they'd lean against the tree and they'd say oh miss loretta her name was loretta miss loretta how you doing and she would speak to every single person and show interest in them.

And I don't know, I just remember thinking that's how you're supposed to be.

So now I get a lot of joy from interacting with other people and finding out about their life, their challenges, their goals, their aspirations, what they'd like to achieve.

I think that's quite different to a lot of people's experience growing up in London.

I think that like neighbours just popping by and just hanging out on the doorstep chatting is quite a lovely idea and one that I think London isn't necessarily known for.

That must have been quite a transition when you moved here.

I was, again, really lucky.

When I moved here, it was in the 80s.

And I think there was some remnants of that still in existence.

Where did you move to? We

moved to, initially we moved to, I think it was Archway.

Oh, yeah.

And

within a few weeks, maybe a month or so, we moved to Palmer's Green.

And I remember knowing my neighbours up and down the street, whether it's because kids... from my street went to my school or just because you knew the neighbors, you knew who was there, you'd see who was out.

And I think as time has gone on and we've found more distractions, whether it's the gym, whether it's the phone, whether it's the Internet, whatever it is, we found more interactions now outside of interpersonal interactions.