SUDDENLY it's a busy weekend with fun and fundraising. It starts tonight with the Twinning Association's boules evening at The Oval for only £4 and you do not have to be a member to join in. Just phone Alan Walters for details on 01494 672718. Ten years of twinning with Langres are being celebrated this year so look our for more fun events.

SEVEN MOTHERS are taking part in the London to Brighton Cycle Ride for the British Heart Foundation. Not only are they training hard but they have also organised a charity disco at the Curzon Centre tomorrow night from 8pm to 11.30pm. It includes supper, a grand raffle and a licensed bar. Tickets are available from 01494 672586. They are also planning a beach barbecue to celebrate their arrival in Brighton next month.

ART EXHIBITION of pupil's work will be held tomorrow and Sunday at High March School at 23 Ledborough Lane (Penn Road end). Opening times tomorrow are from 10am to 5pm and on Sunday there are two sessions 11am to 1pm and 2pm to 4pm.

ANNUAL FLAG DAY collection for the Abbeyfield Beaconsfield Society is a popular one and will take place in both the Old and New Towns today and tomorrow. Bradbury House (the residential care home in the Old Town) is ten years old and volunteers, called the Friends of Bradbury House, provide regular activities. They now want to build an extension for more activities for the frail elderly in a homely, domestic setting. Enquiries about the Friends and their volunteering should be made to Lesley Rogers on 01494 672518.

PLANT & CAKE SALE from 10am tomorrow at St Michael's Church will, hopefully, be as popular as last year. The weather will not be a problem as plants will be on sale at the front of the church and refreshments, lunches and cakes will be in the hall. Plants will include indoor, bedding and vegetables.

MORE OPEN GARDENS again this weekend at 9 Westfield Road on Sunday from 2pm to 6pm and three others. More information from 01442 890222 - the Iain Rennie Hospice at Home.

SEELEYS HOUSE are holding a cake and plant stall next Saturday, May 28 on the Council Green from 9.30am.

ON WEDNESDAY at the library there will be a talk on the life of Edmund Waller hosted by the Friends of St Mary's at 3pm. It will be given by John Stafford, historian and biographer, and will be accompanied by various portraits and articles about Sacharisse, the love of Waller's life. Tickets are available from the library on 01494 672295 at £3 each. Refreshments will be served.