HAVE a giggle with some funny women or get outside and take part in a community planting day or a potato day. Here's your guide to the weekend.

*SUPPORT a community orchard planting day in Littlemoor, Weymouth.

An orchard is being planted at Wyke Oliver Pond and families will be able to adopt fruit trees. It will be known as Jan's Community Orchard, named after community stalwart Jan Hinton.

A planting day will be held on the site tomorrow (25) between 11am and 3pm. Free hot refreshments will be supplied on the day.

If you would like to get involved or adopt a tree contact Julie Hursthouse on 01305 838497 or email jhursthouse@dorset.gov.uk

*PURBECK Literary Festival concludes today with travel writer Nick Hunt talking about his walks across Europe at Wareham Library.

The Where The Wild Winds are talk begins at 2.30pm and finishes around 4pm. It costs £3. See purbeckliteraryfestival.info for more information.

*GET whichever spud you like at Maiden Newton Potato Day tomorrow at the village hall in Station Road from 10.30am to 2pm.

This is the fourth annual pop up gardener's market and seed fair with local arts and craft stalls, 75 varieties of seed potatoes, 600 varieties of heritage and heirloom vegetable seeds and seven varieties of onion sets.

All are welcome, whether experienced gardeners, allotment veterans, newbies, come and talk to the experts, plenty of advice available. Share tips and talk all things gardening. Admission is free.

*AN ENTERTAINING collection of one act farces will be performed in Dorchester tonight (24).

Chekhov's Shorts will be at the Corn Exchange, Dorchester, from 8pm.

These bittersweet plays are Chekhov at his comic best – before The Seagull got stuffed, Uncle Vanya fired blanks, The Three Sisters started moaning and The Cherry Orchard was ‘car-parked’. It will also be performed at the Arts Centre, Bridport, on Saturday and the Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis, on Sunday.

*SEE a live audience with 'Margaret Thatcher' at Shipton Gorge Village Hall tonight from 7.30pm and Briantspuddle Village Hall tomorrow from 7.30pm.

Pip Utton will be playing the 'Iron Lady'! Saviour or witch? Love her or hate her? Not for Pip to decide, only to portray. See artsreach.co.uk for ticket details.

*ESSEX-BORN ex-model Ellie Taylor will be bringing the funny at Coastal Comedy at Hotel Celebrity, Bournemouth, tonight from 7.15pm.

Ellie decided to give stand-up a go in 2011 after seeing a friend perform a five-minute set – and was soon snapped up to be a contestant on ITV1's talent/reality series Show Me The Funny and now graces our TV screens on numerous shows. Call 01202 316316 for tickets.

*CHAMBER ensemble Lavolta will perform at the Marine Theatre in Lyme Regis tomorrow from 8pm.

This stunning chamber ensemble features vocalists Kate Westbrook and Sarah Owen together with an 11-piece band.

William Walton’s jaunty settings of Edith Sitwell’s poetry Facade 2 and Luciano Berio’s outlandish Folk Song sit alongside music by Kurt Weill, Vaughan Williams and Judith Weir.

Contact the box office for tickets.

*IT'S a sold-out show, but for those lucky few with tickets, Jenny Eclair is in Dorchester Corn Exchange on Sunday with her How To Be A Middle-Aged Woman (Without Going Insane) tour.

Jenny will be covering a variety of topics, including being a Splash survivor, amateur soup maker, and novice knitter. Eclair puts middle age under the microscope and decides whether to laugh, cry or buy a dachshund!