Friday, October 27:

Restore, plants, crafts and card shop: Restore, Manzil Way, off Cowley Road, Oxford, open weekdays from 9am-4pm.

Half-term activities: Chiltern Open Air Museum, Chlfont St Giles, open 10am-5pm, until Sunday.

Abingdon Craft Festival: open daily 10am-5pm (Friday until 7pm), until Sunday at the Medieval Abbey Buildings, Abingdon. More than 80 craftspeople display and sell their wares. Different show to last week. Admission 2.50, concessions 2, children 1; today only 1.50, children free. Refreshments on sale every day.

Photographers' evenings: steam displays at Didcot Railway Centre. from 10am today; from 11am Saturday operation all day and night displays with Radstock signalbox visits. Lights out 10pm. A rare opportunity to capture the magic of smoke and steam in the night. Both days conclude when engines have their fires thrown out. For further details telephone 01235 817200. Touch for Health: Drop in clinic at The Asian Cultural Centre, Inner Bookshop, 111 Magdalen Road, Oxford, 10am. 01865 246190.

Tiny tunes: Music club for under fives, Witney Congregational Church, every Friday during term-time, 10am. To book a place, tel 01993 773500.

Half-term activities: cooking in the Victorian kitchen, corn or peg dolly making, traditional farm animals, 10.30am-5pm today, Sat and Sun noon-5pm. Cogges Manor Farm Museum, Witney, 01993 772602.

Bridge session: experienced Acol players only please, Ferry Centre, Summertown, 2pm.

Learn Rollerskating with Thames Valley Roller Skating Club: Old Gaol, Abingdon, 6-7pm. Every Friday. 01235 835626.

Ladies' running sessions: four to five miles every Friday, meet at Wantage Leisure Centre, 6.45pm. 01235 223304.

St John Ambulance Cadets: meet every Friday 7-9pm, for first aid and fun, open to ten-16 year-olds. Naldertown, Wantage. Contact Rodney Clarkson tel 01235 224427.

Basketball Club: juniors 7-8pm, followed by seniors (16+) 9-10pm, The Abbey Sports Centre, Berinsfield. 01865 341035.

Abingdon Squadron Air Training Corps: meet Tuesdays and Fridays 7.15pm, Wootton Road, Abingdon. 01865 433368. Students' concert: The Merle Ensemble play Brahms' Violin Sonata in D minor and Schumann's Piano Trio in F major at the Jacqueline du Pr Music Building, St Hilda's College, Cowley Place, Oxford. 7.30pm.

Dancing session: Old Time Dancing at United Reformed Church Hall, Collinwood Road, Risinghurst, 7.30pm.

Charity bingo session: Littlemore Village Hall, 7.30pm.

Sequence dancing: Every Friday at 7.30pm, Old Headington Parish Hall, Dunstan Road, Headington, 01869 601131.

Great Western Society: Oxford Group meeting with talk on main-line steam on video 1999-2000, with Chris Smith. Pauling Human Sciences Building, rear of 58 Banbury Road, Oxford, 7.30pm. Limited parking.

Fencing session: Oxford Scorpions Fencing Club, 7.30pm, equipment provided, all abilities. 01993 702755.

Society for Graduates talk: Botrytis and wine an enigma, by Dr Molly Dewey, senior research fellow in plant pathology. University Club, Halifax House, 6 South Parks Road, Oxford, 8pm. Meets during term time only.

Ladies self-defence class: Thame Sports and Arts Centre, Oxford Road, Thame, 8pm. 01844 215607.

Social evening: Oxford Open Circle 50+ Club for unattached. Foxcombe Lodge Hotel, Boars Hill, 8.30pm. Fridays. 01865 750245/01235 528685. ______________________

Saturday, October 28:

Advice centre: Oxford West and Abingdon MP, Dr Evan Harris, at The Broadway, Kidlington, telephone 01865 245584 for further details.

Charity garage sale: 6 Wantage Road, Didcot, 9am-2pm, under cover.

Jumble and bric-a-brac sale: Salvation Army Hall, West St Helen Street, Abingdon, 9.30am.

Books and records sale: Bampton Village Hall, 10am-noon. Cakes and refreshments.

Jumble sale: Merry Bells, Wheatley, 10am. For West Oxford Animal Rescue.

Jumble sale: for Cancer Research Campaign, Scouts' Hut, Ashdene Road, Bicester, 10am.

Nearly-new sale: Good Shepherd Hall, Kennington, refreshments, 10am. For cancer research.

Red Cross Bazaar: Red Cross Centre, Wallingford Street, Wantage, 11am.

Jumble sale: Methodist Hall, New High Street, Headington, 11am.

Table top sale: Oxford and District Cat Club at Peachcroft Community Centre, Abingdon 11am-1pm.

Khon-Ha Kickboxing: Community Centre, Hadland Road, Abingdon, 11am, Mayoshindo Karate/Judo noon-1.30pm. Hallowe'en Special: Cholsey and Wallingford Railway, hourly from Wallingford station at 11.30am until 4.30pm. Or Cholsey from noon. Also Sunday. Family ticket 10. Infoline: tel 01491 835067.

One World Week Debate: God and the Global Economy. Speakers, Roger Riddell, Christian Aid and Tim Gorringe, professor of theology at Exeter University. Friends' Meeting House, 43 St Giles, Oxford, 11am-4pm. 01865 717070.

One World Week Conference: Walking the Talk questions which challenge us to live out the gospel. St Katherine's Church, near Henley-on-Thames. All weekend. 01865 717070.

Jumble sale: Wood Farm Ladies Co-operative Club, Titup Hall Drive, Headington, 1pm. 01865 717960.

Jumble sale: Ickford Village Hall, 1pm. Funds to Village Hall.

Jumble and furniture sale: Grove Village Hall, 1pm. Refreshments. 01235 832246.

Jumble and Christmas gifts sale: St Philip and St James Hall, Leckford Road, Oxford, 2pm.

Autumn fair: Longworth Village Hall, 2pm. For Good Neighbours Club.

Jumble sale: Bletchington Village Hall, 2pm. Cakes and teas. Turtle Test: Headington Wildlife WATCH group invite you to take a Turtle Test and find out what you can do to help turtles survive, 2-4pm at Wood Farm Community Centre, Titup Hall Drive, Headington. 01865 769352.

Book readings and storytelling: Waterstone's, Broad Street, Oxford, 23pm. Dean Hill reading children's picture books, suit four to seven year-olds.

Jumble sale: Wootton and Dry Sandford Pre-school at Wootton Community Centre, near Abingdon, 2pm. For Young Children's Play Area.

Race night: Race sponsors 25 (includes one racehorse and four free entry tickets); racehorse owners 5. Entry tickets 2 per adult (children 13 and under free entry). Children to be seated during races. Proceeds to cricket club funds. Garsington Sports and Social Club, Denton Lane, Garsington, 7.45pm.

Oxford Round Table Fireworks Display: South Park. Gates open 6.15pm, display 7.15pm.

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Sunday, October 29:

One World Week Conference: Religion and Peace. Speakers Sir John Weston from the UN; Ebrahim Patel from United Religions Initiative. Dorchester Abbey. For further details telephone 01865 340007.

Hedge Planting at Burgess Field: Start 11am, finish 3pm. Follow signs across Port Meadow to Burgess Field from Walton Well Road or Aristotle Lane. Further details 01865 715830 (Oxford City Council). Collectors' fair: Haddenham Village Hall, antiques and collectibles.10am-4pm. Tel: 01865 331103.

Steam day: Didcot Railway Centre, 10am-5pm. 01235 817200.

Craft fair: Steventon Village Hall, 11am-4pm. Crafts ranging from bee-keeping to woodturning. Refreshments all day.

Amazing Trees walk: meet the Plain, Shotover Country Park, top of Old Road, Headington, 2.30pm. An Oxford City Council countryside department event.

OOMF! video showing: Oxfordshire's Own Millennium Festival at South Park on July 1, on screen at the Oxford Playhouse, Beaumont Street, 3.30pm. Caf-bar open 2 to 6pm. Tickets: 5 adults, concessions and children 2.50, tel 01865 798600. Photographs, T-shirts, videos and CDs of the event at South Park on sale.

Monday, October 30:

Jigsaw library: 36 Stonebridge Road, Steventon, 11.30am-4pm and 6.30-8pm. New members always welcome. Usually weekly. Tel to check dates. For more information tel 01235 834778.

Public lecture: Sir Thomas Allen, Hambro Visiting Professor of Opera. First of two lectures by the world famous baritone. Jacqueline du Pr Music Building, St Hilda's College, Cowley Place, Oxford, 5.30pm. Admission free, by ticket from the Faculty of Music, tel 01865 276133.

Bingo session: Wootton and Dry Sandford Community Centre, 7.30pm. For Sunningwell Cricket Club.

Didcot and Wallingford Orchestra practice night: Northbourne Centre, Church Street, Didcot, 7.30pm. Practice Orchestra only all abilities welcome. 01235 831817. ______________________

Tuesday, October 31:

Lunch-time organ recital: Richard Leach (Pembroke College) at The Queen's College, Oxford, 12.30pm.

Sequence dance open evening: Witney Sequence Dance Club from 7pm Modern, Old Time and Latin American. Classes also held weekly: Beginners 7-7.30pm, with dancing from 7.30 to 10pm, Langdale Hall, Witney. For further information telephone 01865 722250.

Oxfordshire Dyslexia Association and Dyslexia Research Trust: Oxford University Computing Lab, South Parks Road, Oxford, 7.30pm. Prof Susan Greenfield From Brain to Mind.

Wantage Camera Club: Visiting lecturer is Peter Upton: Basic Photography and Beyond. Methodist Church Hall, Newbury Street, Wantage, 7.30pm. Visitors welcome.

Oxford Photographic Society: The Digital Trophy print competition. Nurses Seminar Room, Radcliffe Infirmary, Woodstock Road, Oxford, 7.30pm. Visitors welcome.

Oxford Civic Society: talk by Debbie Dent on the very varied work of the Oxfordshire Trading Standards Department. New Road Baptist Church, Bonn Square, Oxford, 8pm. Ashmolean Natural History Society meeting: talk by Craig Blackwell on Conservation in Oxfordshire. Earth Science Department, Parks Road, Oxford, 8pm.

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Wedesday, October 1:

Wednesday Welcome: The Archway Foundation group invites anyone needing company to join them for chat over coffee and cake, or to play card games or dominoes or just sit and relax to read a newspaper at St Columba's Church Hall, Alfred Street, Oxford, 10.30am-noon. Meetings on the first Wednesday every month. Wheelchair access at rear of building. 01865 790552.

Over 50s Club: talk on The Entertainers. Cheney Community Hall, Cheney Lane, Headington, Oxford, 2.30pm.

Cherwell U3A Group meeting: talk by Muriel Burge on Holiday with a Difference. St Columba's Church Hall, Alfred Street, Oxford, 2.15pm.

Wantage Barbershop Singers rehearsal night: Stockham School, Stockham Way, Wantage, 7.45pm every Wednesday. New male and female members welcome. 01235 835353.

Royal Green Jackets: Oxfordshire Royal Green Jackets Battalion Berinsfield Detachment ACF, open to boys and girls aged 13-18 at Tower Road, Berinsfield, 7.30-10pm every Wednesday. 01865 778844.

Weekly whist drive: King Alfred Drive Community Centre, Didcot, 7.30pm. Every Wednesday. 01235 816745. ______________________

Thursday, November 2:

Coffee and tea shop: With home-made cakes, WI Hall, Brize Norton Road, Carterton, 9.30am-12.30pm. Every Thursday.

Rubber bridge: Wallingford Bridge Club, Bullcroft, 2.30pm. Partners not necessary. Every Thursday. Tel 01491 612652 for information.

Public lecture: with poetry reading by Michael O'Siadhail. Regent's Park College, Pusey Street, Oxford, 5pm. Part of the Poetry and Contemporary Culture: Metaphor, Faith and Tradition series organised by the Centre for the Study of Christianity and Culture.

Taster sessions: kayak racing at Falcon Club, Donnington Bridge Road, Oxford, 6pm. Turn up any Thursday. 5 per session per person. Adults only. 01865 727388. Part of the Riversports Campus Project.

Natural healing: For you and your pets, Old Magistrates' Room, Abbey House, Abingdon, 6.30pm.

White Horse Harriers AC meet: Wantage Leisure Centre, 6.45pm, every Thursday, all abilities welcome. 01235 223304.

Fencing session: Thame Duellist Fencing Club 6.45pm, equipment provided, all abilities welcome. 01993 702755. Scrabble session: Small friendly group welcomes players of all abilities. Guildhall, Abingdon, 7pm. 01235 529607.

Abingdon Amblers Athletic Club: New members of all standards welcome, Tilsley Park, Abingdon, 7pm. Seniors 01235 550688. Jun 01235 535780.

Grove Table Tennis Club: All levels and abilities welcome to this friendly club, Village Hall, Grove, 7.30pm. 01235 765856.

Icknield Badminton Club: Watlington club and league: Four courts, 7.30-10pm. Further details 01491 836049.

Abingdon (Abbey) Townswomen's Guild meeting: with talk by Ms M. Osborne on Self-Publishing a Book. Roysse Room, Guildhall, Abingdon, 7.30pm.

Line dance classes: Regal Centre, Wallingford, beginners 7.30pm, advanced, 8.30pm. 01491 825910.

St John Ambulance Adults: Meet every Thursday 7.30-9.30pm, open to 18-65 year-olds. Naldertown, Wantage. 0701 0708999.

North Oxford Folk Dance Group: The Bowls Pavilion, Cutteslowe Park, Oxford, at 7.45pm. 01865 559065.

Headington Quarry Folk Dance Club: Methodist Church Hall, Quarry High Street, 8pm. Aikido session: Abbey Sports Centre, Berinsfield, 8pm. 01491 415500.

Dancing session: Modern Sequence Dancing, Village Hall, Stonesfield, 8pm.

Didcot 18 Plus Group: Meets every Thursday from 8.15pm. Tel 01235 810361 for further details.

Round dancing: Beginners class (featured rhythm Waltz), Kennington Methodist Church, Upper Road, Kennington. 8.15pm. 01865 453744. Alternate Thursdays. Please telephone to confirm dates.

Friday, November 3:

Ashmolean Museum Millennium Lecture: Facing Forward, Looking Back series. Prisons of the Infinite: Women's Eyes, by Dr Kate Flint, of Linacre College. Lecture at the Oxford Playhouse, 5-6pm. Admission 2.50. 01865 798600.