Diary: 19-25 September

Tuesday 20: 'Witnesses and Dreamers' exhibition opens, Museum of London, London EC2.

Wednesday 21: Festival of Flowers begins, Brompton Oratory, London SW7.

Thursday 22: 'Childhood Re-collected' exhibition begins, Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford.

Saturday 24: Craft Fair and Flower Festival begins, Orpington, Kent. Croquet, National finals, Solihull.

Sunday 25: Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity. Alexandra Palace Antique and Collectors Fair begins, Alexandra Palace, London N22. Rochester Saints Festival begins, Rochester Cathedral, Kent. 'The Salters Way' guided walk, Hawthorn Dene Nature Reserve, County Durham.