The music I love all music but one piece I cannot do without is Beethoven's piano sonata

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The music I love all music, but one piece I cannot do without is Beethoven's piano sonata number 15, The Pastoral: for humour, whimsy, and delight raised to the level of deep emotion, especially when played by Alfred Brendel. Children's entertainment includes a Punch and Judy show, face painting and badge making, Christmas storytelling and carol-singing, plus Father Christmas in his grotto.Selected rides will be open from 10.30am until 3.30pm and there will be a small charge for each ride.Festival of Light Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, Church St, Brighton (0127-329 0900) today, 2pm-4pm, pounds 2.50, booking essentialTo celebrate Diwali, children aged between four and 11 can take part in block printing and painting Mendhi patterns on their hands and feet. Good vantage points are Victoria Embankment, Blackfriars Bridge and Waterloo Bridge.Nikki SpencerThe Great Thorpe Park Christmas Craft Festival near Chertsey, Surrey (0134 487 4787) today and tomorrow, 10am-6pm, adults pounds 3.50, children pounds 1Do your Christmas shopping, entertain the kids and have a few goes on your favourite hair- raising rides, all in one afternoon, when the popular theme park hosts a craft fair with more than 230 exhibitors. The day's proceedings, which include a fair in Paternoster Square, are topped off with a firework display over the Thames at 5pm. Send a first-class stamp for a catalogue.For a comprehensive guide to the cactus family that is accessible and well illustrated, try The Complete Book of Cacti and Succulents by Terry Hewitt (Dorling Kindersley, pounds 15.99). Cacti and Succulents in Habitat by Ken Preston-Mafham (Cassell, pounds 10.99) gives a riveting account of what these plants can do when unconfined by pots and greenhouses.The British Cactus and Succulent Society has more than 100 branches. A wide range of cacti and succulents is also available from Southfield Nurseries, Bourne Road, Morton, Nr Bourne, Lincs PE10 0RH (01778 570168).

Open 10am-12.30pm and 1.30pm-4pm daily, by appointment only November to January. His pots are also available from the Collection Gallery, Ledbury, Contemporary Ceramics, 7 Marshall Street, London W1 and Bourton House, Bourton on the Hill, Gloucs.Terry Hewitt's nursery, Holly Gate, is at Billinghurst Road, Ashington, West Sussex RH20 3BA (01903 892930) It is open daily, 9am-5pm Send two first-class stamps for a catalogue. Mr de la Torre's pots restore a cactus's pride.Cacti ConnectionsMARK PEDRO de la Torre's workshop is at The Courtyard, The Old Rectory, Stoke Lacy, Herefordshire HR7 4HH (01432 820500). From 4-6 December he will be at the Contemporary Crafts Fair, Queen Charlotte Hall, Parkshot Centre, Richmond, Surrey. The fair is open from 10am-6.30pm (but closes at 5.30pm on the last day) Admission pounds 4.

They are also strong, both physically (good red Staffordshire clay that won't flake or break in winter) and in the effect that they create. Garden centres have done cacti no favours by dressing them up in plastic sombreros and sunglasses. He grows quite a few himself, displayed alongside showy succulents in the big bay window of his house in Herefordshire Outside, sempervivums live happily in the same kind of pot. They are low and heavy with curved, doughnut rims.The form is unusual and very kind to plants that are dumpy by nature.