Afternoon. The buses go back down Victoria Road at six, and Berrylands gets its trains back on Monday morning — what Network Rail says you will find there is below. Also the two October closures I owed you from Wednesday, the festival's own money worries, and the week.

The first trains call at Berrylands on Monday, four and a half months after the last. Network Rail's project page says the temporary staircases are finished and the old ones stay shut while it works out what to do with them — it is “exploring a number of options” and will say more “as soon as we have come to a decision”.

Both platforms are new. The 1930s timber ones have gone, the narrow sections have been widened, and there is new lighting, CCTV, information screens, help points and a shelter on each side. The ticket office, the car park and the toilets reopen with the station. Nothing on the works list is a lift; the Surbiton Partnership's listing quotes Network Rail on that: “We don't control what enhancement projects are approved or funded.”

Network Rail says it will be on site with “the final parts of the project” until November, so the parking suspensions on Chiltern Drive and the footway restrictions on Lower Marsh Lane run on for a while yet.

Portsmouth Road shuts 24 hours a day between The Mall and Simpsons Way from Monday 5 October to 19 November, for SGN to replace the gas main. Lamberts Road shuts from Wednesday 7 October to 13 November for UK Power Networks' cable. Before either, Villiers Avenue gets two-way lights near Cheyne Hill from Friday 2 October to 4 November, the same cable. TfL has already diverted the K4 for Lamberts Road: from 7 October to 13 November it misses Cheyne Hill to Surbiton Station towards Ripon Gardens, and St Marks Church to Cheyne Hill towards Kingston Hospital. Nothing published yet for Portsmouth Road or Villiers Avenue.

The cable is what Thursday's drop-in is about: UK Power Networks at Surbiton Hill Methodist Church, 39 Ewell Road, 6 to 8. It is also the place to ask why Hook Road's lights are still up — UKPN's permit runs to 24 October, the council's list to the 25th. Garrison Lane in Chessington has a UKPN permit to 4 December and is still nowhere on the council's list, which has not been updated since 18 September.

More than 25 years in, still run by unpaid volunteers, and this year it went looking for money. The sponsors page on the festival's site says why: “Following the loss of funding from the local authority and increased charges for services, this year we are asking for local businesses to offer financial support in any way they can.” Surbiton Rotary inspired it and still backs it; Glenmore House sponsors it. If you were on Victoria Road today, reply and tell me the best thing you saw. The replies run on Monday.

Austin House on St Mark's Hill is a step closer to twelve flats on its roof. Prior approval for two extra storeys already exists; on Monday the council signed off the construction management plan, one of the conditions that had to be cleared before work.

A rare refusal on Wednesday: prior approval for a five-metre rear extension at 30 Villiers Close, turned down. And Surbiton Library got permission on Tuesday for three air-source heat pumps on the rear roof, with ten solar panels moved to make room — an application that sat for six months.

Tonight: Joe and Al at the Flyer from nine, acoustic covers with a loop pedal. A Dolly Parton and Shania Twain tribute night at the Royal British Legion on Hollyfield Road, half seven, a month after Dolly died — £7 for members, £10 for the rest of us, fish and chip van outside.

Sunday: junior parkrun at Alexandra Rec at nine, two laps for four- to 14-year-olds. The Teddy Bear Trail from 11, maps from EnhanceAble on Tolworth Broadway. Knollmead allotments want hands 2 to 4. Quiz at the Prince of Wales at seven, £2.50, £50 to the winners. Trains: the Staines line is shut, so the Reading trains come this way instead and call at Surbiton — more trains than a normal Sunday, not fewer. 22 degrees and dry until the evening, when drizzle has a 40 per cent chance.

Monday: Berrylands. Quiz at the Waggon and Horses at eight, £2, teams of four to six. 18 degrees, dry.

Tuesday: Helen wrote in — she and a friend are hosting Empty Chairs at The Berrylands on Chiltern Drive, 7 to 9: a booked table with spare chairs for anyone who wants company, no agenda, orange tops so you can find them, card tricks promised. Free indoor bowls with coaching at King George Field on Jubilee Way, 6 to 7, soft flat shoes. Quiz at the Black Lion, half eight.

Wednesday: Tolworth Girls' open evening from 5.30, no booking. Spanish wines at Corners on Maple Road, half seven; the French Table's Alsace dinner the same night, four courses and four wines, £150.

Thursday: the UKPN drop-in, above. Celebrate Surbiton: the council's page still lists Thursday and the 8th, 4.30 to 8 on the station forecourt; the Partnership's calendar stops at September. Unconfirmed until someone who runs it says so.

Back on Monday.

Mike