What's On

A SHOW that was postponed when the cast came down with swine flu before Christmas finally goes ahead this week.

AN EXHIBITION of the work of artist Irene John, of Beaconsfield, is being held at artsmart's studio in London End this week.

A TRADITIONAL Christmas farmers market, along with festive music from the Denham and Hendon Brass Band, will get shoppers into festive mood in Beaconsfield Old Town on Saturday.

They may not have Johnny Depp, Alan Rickman or Helena Bonham Carter in the cast, but Beaconsfield Operatic Society is now selling tickets for its forthcoming production of Sweeny Todd.
Billed as a musical thriller, the show runs from April 1 to 4 at 7.45pm at The Curzon Centre in Maxwell Road. Tickets, price £14, are available from www.bosopera.com or 01494 813518.

Few of us are ready for the deep changes needed in society and to our way of life if major climate change is to be avoided.
But you can learn more about how to be ready by visiting a Green Energy Machine at the Jordans Quaker Meeting House in Welders Lane, Jordans, next weekend.
A vehicle housing examples of renewable energy, the machine has been built to help people understand technologies in harnessing sustainable energy.

A nearly new sale of baby equipment and clothes takes place on Saturday March 14 at the Curzon Centre on Maxwell Road.
Organised by Beaconsfield NCT, the sale takes place from 1pm to 2.30pm.

A jumble sale takes place on Saturday at Seeleys House, a day care centre for adults with learning disabilities.
Friends of Seeleys House have organised it to raise funds for activities at the Bucks County Council funded centre on Campbell Drive, Knotty Green.
The jumble sale is from 10am to 1pm. All welcome.

The A40 choir has organised a special pre-concert workshop of Handel's Messiah.
The workshop will be this Sunday from 2-5.30pm at St Thomas in Holtspur and tickets are £5.
The concert will be on Saturday, March 7 at 7.30pm at St Mary's Church in Amersham.
For more information call 01753 886 005.

The Canterbury Tales with a modern twist is to be preformed at the Beacon Theatre next month by Beaconsfield Theatre Group.
The script, by Phil Woods with Michael Bogdanov, sets Chaucer's classic tales amid the rivalry of a village competition and is packed with good, mostly clean fun at the annual Lower Holtspur Tale Competition.
Who will win the coveted award? Will the Miller's Tale, disqualified for bad taste, ever make the stage?
You can find out by buying a ticket for the show, which runs from March 18 to 21 at 8pm. Telephone 07880 962514 or visit www.btg-theatre.org

Children on half term this week rushed to Odds Farm Park to see the first baby lamb to be born this year.
Womble, a tiny male lamb, was born in the early hours on Friday to Greyface Dartmoor mum Baa-bara.
Over the next few weeks visitors can expect to see plenty more cute arrivals and very lucky visitors may even see one being born.
Everybody can take a turn at bottle feeding the lambs at 11.30am and 3.30pm daily and there are plenty of other activities to take part in.
Odds Farm Park is open daily from 10am. For more information telephone 01628 520118 or visit www.oddsfarm.co.uk