It’s Bank Holiday Monday and the Notting Hill Carnival will be rattling the windows. I’m not there this year to shake my ass or to kick ass. But in the spirit of the occasion, here is a snap taken in Nunhead, a little-known corner of south London that boasts a village green, a butcher’s, a baker’s… and occasionally, people attired in silver, who parade on stilts. It’s all a lot quieter than Notting Hill but splendid, in its way.