Afternoon — this one is late and it is short, which after yesterday's three thousand words is probably a mercy. Three things: a week-long closure coming to Victoria Road that I cannot find reported anywhere, a correction I owe you on a date I printed yesterday, and a reader who has caught me out on a pub quiz. Everything tonight is still ahead of you and the weather is perfect for it.

Off the council's own roadworks list this afternoon, and I have not seen it in the press or anywhere else:

That is our high street, closed at the Brighton Road junction, around the clock, for eight days. A raised table is the flat-topped hump they build across a junction to slow traffic and level the crossing — so this is a build, not a patch, and it will not be a quick one.

I am telling you thirteen days early on purpose. That is a week that takes in a Saturday and a Sunday, on the road with the station, the shops and most of the buses on it. If you run something on Victoria Road, now is the time to ask the council what access you keep, not on the fourteenth.

While you have the diary open, the rest of September on our roads:

And one number that puts yesterday's in context. The cable job on Ewell Road is one leg of a two-year, ten-kilometre UK Power Networks scheme running from Chessington up to Kingston — and their own stated finish for the whole thing is January 2027. The same month the cycleway junctions are due to clear. That is not a coincidence anyone has explained to us, and I would like to know whether it is one.

Yesterday I told you the emergency job at Ewell Road and Lamberts Road ran 12 to 28 August, off the council's list. Not quite. The council's table actually licenses that job to 4 September. The 28 August I quoted is in the paragraph above the table, where the council says UK Power Networks were “aiming to complete this work by 28 August”. I printed the target as though it were the permission. It is not the same thing and I should have said so.

The verdict does not change, and here is why I am still confident. Both permits expired on Friday night and neither was extended. The live map showed nothing there yesterday. And the Ditton Road bus stop, closed all last week, is carrying no disruption at all today — it is back. So the aim is what happened; the 4 September on the table is the outer edge of what they were allowed, not what they used.

Kingston Council roadworks list, last updated 28 August, read again this afternoon. TfL line status, 1 September.

Yesterday I told you the Waggon & Horses quiz was on at 8pm. Helen wrote straight back: “No pub quiz at the Waggon & Horses on bank holidays, unless you have info straight from the horses' mouths that it is on tonight.”

I did not, and she is right to ask. Here is everything I can actually stand up: the pub's own site says the quiz is every Monday, 8pm, £2 a head, fifty questions, £50 to the winners. Nowhere does it carve out bank holidays. Nowhere does it say it runs on them either. So I cannot settle it, and Helen may well be right that a hundred people stayed home.

If you went last night, tell me what you found — and I mean that with some urgency, because tomorrow's issue is the full pub quiz map, all seven nights of it, built from what readers have sent in over the past month. I would rather print it right than print it fast. Anything you know about your local one, send it today.

The History of Seething Wells, the cornerHOUSE on Douglas Road, £4. Bar opens at 7, the talk starts at 7.30 — historian David Kennedy to the Surbiton & District Historical Society, on two years spent hunting the spring this district is named after. (One listing says 7pm; the body of the same listing says 7.30. Go for 7 if you want a drink first.)

Life drawing at the Lamb on Brighton Road, 7.30 to 9.30pm, £10, model and materials provided. Turn up, no booking.

And the Black Lion quiz on Brighton Road at 8pm, free entry, cash prize — which after the paragraph above I am flagging honestly as reader-supplied and unverified by me. Ring first if you are making a special trip.

Objections to the Olive Tree's pavement licence close today. 162 Hook Road — twelve chairs, four tables out front, 8.30am to 4pm Monday to Saturday, 9 to 4 on Sunday. It has to be in writing, with your full postal address, to licensing@kingston.gov.uk. If you were going to, it is this afternoon or not at all.

And one I can only half tell you. The Good Life has been carrying a listing since June — Karen's Losing Her Hair! — for Karen at the Coronation Hall, the Wetherspoons on St Mark's Hill, having her head shaved to raise £1,500. The listing runs out tomorrow.

That is honestly all I have. No date for the shave itself, no fundraising page I can find, and the listing cuts off mid-sentence on the charity's name — though Wetherspoon's national partner is Young Lives vs Cancer, and the Coronation Hall's own monthly quiz already raises for them. If you know Karen, or whether it has happened yet, or where to give, tell me and I will print it properly. I would rather ask you than guess. I nearly guessed.

I owe you a weather correction too, and it matters if you have children. Yesterday I said Thursday, the first day back, was probably dry. It has turned: the models now put three millimetres of rain across Thursday. Coats for the school gate. And the warm day has moved — I gave you Friday at 25°C; Friday has come down to 23°C and Sunday is now the hot one at 26°C. Wednesday and Saturday both dry, low twenties.

Wednesday — still nothing on anywhere, still the quietest evening of the month, and still the day the quiz map lands.

Thursday, first day back, and Celebrate Surbiton returns — station forecourt closed to traffic, street food and entertainment, 4.30 to 8pm, free, every Thursday through September. A first-day-back tea nobody has to cook.

Friday — the free RBKares Wellbeing Day at Queen Mary Hall on Cambridge Gardens, 11am to 2pm: health checks, haircuts, clothes, bike repairs, benefits and energy advice, soup and cake. That one is in Kingston, not Surbiton, and worth the trip. Then comedy at Alcheme on Brighton Road, bar at 7, first act at 8, £16.96 for three comedians.

The weekend. Saturday: Simply Stitching at Surbiton Library, 10.30am, free; poetry at the cornerHOUSE, 10am, £5; the Repair Café at Kingston Library, 10.30 to 1, last slot half twelve; and wrestling at Long Ditton village hall, doors 6.30, £13.50 in advance. Sunday: junior parkrun at Alexandra Rec, 9am, four to fourteens; the Long Ditton litter pick, 10am by the big tree on Fleece Road, kit provided and a hot drink after; and the free walking tour from Surbiton station at 11am — that one you must book.

Still no decision published on the KFC at North Parade in Chessington or Pepe's Piri Piri on Tolworth Broadway, both heard on 13 August. The agendas are still up with every annex attached — police representations, amended conditions, floor plans, the lot. The minutes are still the only set missing all year. Nineteen days. The committee sits again on Tuesday 8 September and I will be reading it.

Gino Fiorellino, from Surbiton, lost his leg in a motorbike accident in Crete in 1989. He has written a memoir about the thirty-seven years since — One Night Changed Everything — on staying mobile, managing chronic pain by the hour, and a long stretch of frontline hospital advocacy. He talked to Radio Jackie about it at the weekend. Not news exactly. Just a neighbour who has done a hard thing and then written it down.

Margaret, who asked for car boot sales in the first place: “Thanks so much for the car boot information which I have found very useful. Keep up the good work. We need you!” Forty-two issues in and that is the first time anyone has asked for something this newsletter had never covered and got it the following week. Ask me for things. It works.

Helen, above, for the correction — and for the phrasing, which I enjoyed more than I should have.

And welcome to Michelle, who joined at the weekend and wants to know about changes to buses and trains, which is most of what I seem to do lately; and to another new reader who signed up asking about pub quizzes, roughly eighteen hours before I got publicly corrected about one. Your map is tomorrow.

Back tomorrow, earlier, with all seven nights.

Mike