Drinks first before the AGM. It was great to have a chat to everyone and Highgate is such a hotbed of issues – from farmers markets in Pond Square to controlled parking!

Then into the AGM, I was very pleased that the Chair in his speech made reference to the importance of the new 603 bus route from Muswell Hill to Swiss Cottage.

Having campaigned for six years for this – it is great that everyone is behind it. Even Labour, having given no support to my efforts over the years and having attacked it (and the public funding without which the trial would never have been launched), have lately realised that it is popular and have started campaigning with a petition

for its expansion to a full service.

Naturally, I welcome their support, but am underwhelmed by their conversion on the road to political Damascus. It would of course be a bit more convincing were it not for the fact that it was the Labour Mayor who decided not to have the full service in the first place. Strangely enough, Labour aren’t mentioning that!

I was also delighted that another of my campaigns – to do with problems of unreported crime – also struck a chord with residents and was supported by a contribution asking members of the Highgate Society to report crimes, however minor.