BUCKS OPEN STUDIOS celebrates its 20th year next weekend. Gillian Whittome and Eva Walters, neighbours in Cheyne Close, will be showing off their work from next Saturday, June 18 until July 3, although they will be closed on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, June 21, 22, 23, 28, 29 and 30.

Gillian's expertise as an embroiderer encompasses hand stitching, gold work, and appliqu. Eva Walters has founded her work on cross-stitch and embroidered artefacts based on worldwide ethnic and historic textiles.

AGM of the Community Association is scheduled for 8pm on Monday at the Memorial Centre.

CREAM TEAS will be on offer at the Chiltern Cheshire Home in Packhorse Road tomorrow when the annual summer fair gets underway at 2.30pm. All the usual stalls will be vying for custom.

PAUL WHITTLE will give an illustrated talk on China Beyond the Great Wall to members of the Probus Club on Wednesday at the Memorial Centre. He will get to his feet at 10am to describe his 2,000-mile journey from Beijing to Xian and onto northern China and the Jing Peng region of inner Mongolia.

OVER £100 WAS RAISED for the Tsunami disaster fund from the recent Beetle Drive at All Saints Church in Oval Way and the money was used to pay for the shipping out to Sri Lanka of clothes and children's toys.

A THING OF BEAUTY is demonstrator Jane Haas's theme when she addresses the Flower Club on Wednesday afternoon at the Memorial Centre. "Only Five Blooms" is the subject for this month's competition. The afternoon gets underway at 2.15pm.

EIGHT PUPILS from the Royal Grammar School in High Wycombe who are known as the Peak Trad Jazz Band launch the All Saints Music Festival tomorrow evening at 7pm in the Oval Way Church and tickets are £13 to include a barbecue supper or £10 if you take your own picnic.

Next Friday at 7pm it is the turn of the Prince Consort Ensemble from the Royal College of Music to front the festival. Tickets are £12. On Sunday week there is a Drumjam family workshop from 3pm to 5pm. This is an energetic drumming workshop designed for children and adults. Cost for adults is £7 and £5 for children.

The Music Festival winds ups on Thursday, June 23, when former Gayhurst School pupil Philip Fowke, now an international concert pianist, will be performing.

OPEN HOUSE with the Reverend John Lambert and his wife Sue is at the Manse in South Park View tomorrow between 10am and midday.