AT PENN STREET CHURCH tomorrow the High Wycombe Orpheus Male Voice Choir will be performing at Holmer Green Church Centre in aid of restoration work on Holy Trinity Church, Penn Street. The concert starts at 7.30pm and tickets are £8 for adults and £4 for under 16's. For tickets and further information phone 01494 715195.

OPEN GARDENS SUNDAY has been resurrected again this year and is a wonderful afternoon visiting more than 20 gardens in the villages. It is also a major fund raising event for Village Care.

You collect the map of all the open gardens at the village hall between 1.30pm and 5.30pm. It will cost £6 for a family ticket which covers up to three adults, children are free. A single adult ticket costs £3.

You then visit all, or as many of the gardens as you can, making a very special stop at Tylers End in Glebelands for a cup of tea. Tea and a cake are priced at £1, juice and a biscuit are free for children.

We did the tour two years ago and I can assure you it is a most pleasant afternoon and you will see lots of villagers on your way round, a good excuse for a chat.

VILLAGE SHOW and entry forms are now in most shops in the village, the village hall and the nursery on Hammersley Lane. The event takes place in the village hall on Saturday, July 9 from 2.15pm. One class caught my eye. Number 58 is a "men only" class to make a bakewell tart. Could you become the top man in the village with your baking skills, get a form quick.

YOU MAY HAVE TROUBLE competing with Richard Mapp for top man in the village at the moment. He has bought his American wife a ticket home, for her 40th birthday present, to visit her family for seven days. He has also taken time off work to look after their three small children while she is away.

Not that anyone believes Bridget is a day over 30.

CRICKET and the first eleven lost again in a close finish against Amersham Hill on Saturday. Penn set a total of 244 all out with Toby Radford dominating the innings with 119.

However Amersham Hill reached the target with five balls to spare in a very tense finish. Penn have still to win in the league this season. The second eleven also lost against Cookham Dean. Terry Bentley hit 59 as Penn were dismissed for 208 and Cookham Dean reached the target with eight wickets down.

The club will be hoping to get things going in the right direction when they play the first round of the League Knock Out Cup, of which they are the holders. They are at home to local rivals Winchmore Hill at 6pm on Monday evening.