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The first-ever Spring Bulb Festival marks 15 years since the Ben lemon curd tart, plus award-winning gardens reopened to the public. It’s a real treat with sandwiches and scones with almost 50,000 new bulbs planted across the grounds. See tulips by clotted cream and jam, on a the Capability Brown lake, embark on a woodland walk to find drifts London Eye cake stand. Book of anemones and bluebells and spot colourful displays in the Italian from £42 per person at Gardens, described as “the finest outside Italy”. Entry costs £9.45 townhousekensington.com. (adults) and £8.40 (children) until March 31. See trentham.co.uk. SEE Little Miss Sunshine makes iits debut at London’s Arcola TTheatre on Thursday, followed bby a UK tour. Based on the mmovie with Abigail Breslin and SSteve Carell, the musical sees a dysfunctional family pack up ttheir camper van and hit the DO rroad to make their daughter Olive’s beauty pageant dreams Give three cheers to the weekend and raise a glass of unlimited bubbly at come true. Will the camper Cafe Rouge. To celebrate its 30th birthday the French bistro chain has van, and the family, survive? rolled out free-flowing fizz every Friday night at nearly all its UK restaurants. The tour begins in Ipswich Book a table from 5pm to try two courses from the evening set menu for on May 20. For tickets and £29.95 per person and get prosecco, Stella, mocktails or soft drinks on tour information, visit littlemiss tap for two hours. Find out more at caferouge.com. sunshinemusical.com. MUST HAVE Make a date with two tales of crime and punishment and a horror movie Us The Last Act Widows Academy Award-winning Failing Broadway star When four thieves are actress Lupita Nyong’o Tommy Jump turns spy for killed, their debts fall on stars in this nail-biting the FBI. Armed with a new their widows’ shoulders. horror. Adelaide takes identity he’s got six months With nothing left to lose, her family to her in jail to befriend a criminal Veronica (Viola Davis) hometown for summer, and steal his secrets. The recruits the women to take but their happy holiday Brad Parks novel is out on the heist her husband becomes a nightmare. It’s now for £12.99 – see never completed. It’s out in cinemas from Friday. Bookshop on page 77. on Blu-ray and DVD. S MAGAZINE ★ 17 MARCH 2019 7 Earrings, £6.99, New Look Chain bag, £49, Star by Julien (0344 499 6690, newlook.com) MacDonald at Debenhams