Email from Ed Davey’s office cancelling a later meeting because he is ill. I panic, thinking we must have poisoned him last night and phone up his office; no – it’s not food poisoning, just flu. Thank goodness!

Later in the day, the second public meeting on the new Highgate Control Centre for Tubelines. They have moved a fair distance on disguising the building from nearby residents with earth and have got some decent proposals for lighting and the gatehouse. But they have still not answered many questions posed by residents at the first meeting which they promised to do.

This naturally angers the residents – and so ask them to come back to a third public meeting to answer the questions.

I am hosting our local Lib Dem monthly political debate at my house this evening. It’s called Pizza and Politics and basically we choose a subject, invite a speaker, order in pizza, add some wine and have a good old political ding-dong on the subject in question.

So much of local political activity is about raising funds, delivering leaflets and so on that you could find you never got to actually talk politics – so this provides an occasion for our members to remember why they joined in the first place.

Sadly – the speaker failed to turn up! So sitting in my living room with a disparate (and probably desperate) group of random individuals, I brightly suggest that we just have a debate amongst ourselves.

In the way of these things, it was somewhat uncomfortable at the start but ended up one of the best debates we have had. It was about ethnic minority issues and in our debates there are no holds barred.

It is an interesting time locally for the Liberal Democrats in Haringey. The make-up of our members, activists and voters has become much more ethnically diverse in the last few years. And nationally, ethnic communities are moving away from their traditional loyalty to the Labour party and are looking towards us for a new home.

It isn’t just the war. It’s a lot of things. And on the other side of the coin – the most important prerequisite for joining the Lib Dems is to share the values and beliefs of the Lib Dems – equality, community, fairness and justice.

Meet a woman at Harringay Station. I’ve done a lot of work to get this and other stations in Haringey improved – particularly getting them cleaned up. She’d written to me about graffiti problems at the station, so we met to take a look. She took me down to the platform and showed me the whole of the facing wall to the platform covered in graffiti.

Platform graffiti which adorns the walls coming into most stations in London is a hard nut to crack – but one that I am keen to continue to apply pressure to.

I have now contacted WAGN to see if they will remove the graffiti which has clearly not been touched since 1996 – some kind tagger was thoughtful enough to write the year for all to see.

Later in the day off to Sadlers Wells! Sadly not to see a performance but to give a presentation on the Hump Report which I and my transport committee produced earlier this year.

What a beautiful setting – the glass wall of the theatre lit with tiny white lights and the aspect of London beyond.

Road humps always provoke people. Let us be clear – the findings were overwhelming that they save lives and serious injuries – but they are not the only nor necessarily the best tool for traffic calming. (You can read more about it in the column I wrote at the time).

There was a woman there who was speaking after me from the Transport Laboratory and she was telling me beforehand that they are now working on psychological barriers to speeding – i.e. if a driver thinks it is dangerous and likely to kill him/her they will slow down. Sounds a good approach to me.

I leave Sadlers directly after my bit as I have to make my way across London to Sutton as guest speaker at Sutton LibDems AGM.

Graham Tope has been the best mentor a politician could have and I later embarrass him by telling the massed ranks of Sutton LibDems that this is the case.

Graham met me at Sutton station. As we walked through Sutton town centre it was a bit like being in that old TV series ‘The Prisoner’. Everything looked pristine, and shiny and well designed. Lovely murals and artistic railings, clean pedestrianised streets with nice shops and lovely lighting. A world away from many parts of Haringey where I hail from. However, apparently local residents did not always see it as the shining example I did. I would like them to come to Haringey (Labour run) and see that even our ‘nice’ high streets cannot compare.

I deliver a sort of round up on the London Assembly and the Mayor – the GLA world according to Lynne – and it seems to go down well.