First event of the day – meeting with parents from Campsbourne Infants and Junior schools.

Second event of the day – Highgate Summer Fair in Pond Square.

Third event of the day – over to St Martin de Porres primary school in Bounds Green for to their Summer Fete. Introduce myself to head and agree to come back and do something with the children.

And last event of the day – opening the Inderwick Road street party. On what was a baking hot day, the fire-fighters from Hornsey Fire Station had come with an engine and were shooting a hose high into the air – with a herd of children running in and out of the spray with squeals of absolute delight.

One of the organisers, Maggie, pulls me into her house to meet 10 Chinese policemen and women who are over here from Beijing to learn about crowd control and public order in time for the Beijing Olympics. I am unclear why they have come to Inderwick Road Street Party to learn about public order and crowd control – unless there’s something about the denizens of Inderwick that the powers that be know and I don’t!

At around 4.15pm I am given the microphone to open the party – which I do. I warn the gathering hordes of the Chinese Police presence vis a vis crowd control – to hoots of laughter. And it’s on with the show – with fancy dress competitions, barbeques and bands until late in the evening.

I leave after about an hour and go home to enjoy a late bit of sunshine in my garden.