The picture to the right is my favourite picture of this trip. The concentration, the wisdom and the sheer humaity.
There is something curiously attractive, fascinating and civilised about street games between adults - in this instance street chess. This one appeals for me as a chess player of course, but nonetheless I do find it interesting how quickly a crowd gathers around street games like this.
Somehow the slightly lame layout of a small hopscotch in my own local Kilburn doesn't quite match up and yet it feels like the best we can attempt...
The other factor, when I passed by today, was the excitement amongst the older male regulars as a young woman took up the challenge to play. I used to play a lot (but haven't of late) and playing on a large street-board like this is very different to a table-top game, but I and these hardened regulars were impressed with the speed and the effectiveness of her game. She was playing to a formula, but with flair and style and a confidence that took them all by surprise.
At the end of her third win she retired leaving the older men a story to talk through over their bosnia coffee for days to come. Sigh - we could learn so much from such mediterranean mellow.
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Liberal Democrat Party Leader Nick Clegg's visit to Kilburn High Road has been extensively covered in the local press. Clegg was in Kilburn to support Ed Fordham's initiative to clean up the Kilburn High Road, as well as Ed's campaign to be our next MP.
Nick Clegg MP, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, came to the Kilburn High Road today to launch the Party’s new “Vibrant Local High Street” policy. This follows hot on the heels of the announcement in the Kilburn Times of Ed Fordham’s campaign to clean up Kilburn, with Nick lending his support to this initiative. 
Local resident and campaigner Ed Fordham is launching a campaign to make Kilburn a better place to live, work and shop. Ed’s plan was announced in the Kilburn Time on the 4th February, and received extensive coverage (see pictures).
NW6 transport campaigners recently made a deputation to Camden Council to pressurise TfL and Conservative Mayor Boris Johnson to listen to the concerns of residents and traders in North West London.
West Hampstead and Kilburn transport campaigners have hit out at London’s Tory Mayor Boris Johnson over TfL’s weekend closures, which have been hitting residents and traders in NW6.
I'm not sure there is much to say other than these pictures but suffice to say it is the dominant feature of the places I have been here in Bosnia Herzegovina - graveyard upon graveyard. These are not old and well maintained - these are recent, specific and relate to the 1992-1995 war. This series were taken in Mostar.
