This Spring don't miss the baby boom at WWT National Wetland Centre Wales. Ducklings, goslings, cygnets and other babies are beginning to hatch and can now be seen around the grounds.

New England or Old England? Why fly halfway round the world and clock up those air miles when one of the world's finest autumn spectacles is on the doorstep at Westonbirt - The National Arboretum in Gloucestershire.

Treat yourself to a blooming wonderful Spring Bank Holiday and visit one of the 200 gardens which will be throwing open their gates to the public with The National Gardens Scheme from 24 to 26 May.

Being told we belong in a museum would be a hurtful insult to most of us. But George Musgrave - now 91 - has embraced the concept to such an extent that he has created a museum in Eastbourne filled with his own eclectic life's work: paintings, children's toys, painted figures, games, cake decorations, coin collections and a tribute to the father he never knew who was killed in WW1.

AirSpace, a major new £25 million project telling the story of Britain's civil and military aviation, past, present and future, officially opens on July 12th at the Imperial War Museum Duxford, Cambridgeshire, and looks set to appeal to families, enthusiasts, historians, veterans and schools alike.

In the village of Pinchbeck near Spalding, in the heart of the Fens, down country lanes festooned with potato and cabbage fields, you'll see a large redbrick building. Step through its doors and you'll be transported back in time to the entertainment world of the 30s, 40s and 50s, complete with Wurlitzers, posters of a bygone age, music, photographs and art deco lamps.

Volunteers at Ripon Cathedral hope to reach the parts that others have not reached by shedding light on some of its hidden treasures, and attract people who may never have visited a Cathedral before.