For your diary

• A car-boot sale in aid of Home-Start Malta will be held at Vittoriosa Stars football pitch today from 8 a.m. to noon. For more information, call 2167 8043 or visit www.appogg.gov.mt.

• The Association of Parents of Children in Church Schools are holding a family fun day at the Archbishop's Seminary, Tal-Virtù, Rabat, today between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.

• The Society for the Protection against Cruelty to Animals is holding a spring fair at Palazzo Parisio, Naxxar, today from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

• Moviment Madonna tal-Konsagrazzjoni is holding its annual prayer meeting to commemorate the 23rd anniversary of the placing of the statue of Our Lady at Girgenti today. The meeting will start with a pilgrimage at 6 p.m. from near the bridge at the end of the old road.

• Hal Millieri and Bir Miftuħ medieval chapels are open today and every first Sunday of the month from 9.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. Volunteers of Din l- Art Ħelwa will be in attendance.

• A talk entitled 'Discovering the learner in your child' by Colin Calleja will take place at St Nicholas College, Attard Primary School, tomorrow and Tuesday from 6 to 8 p.m. For more information, call 2157 0326 or e-mail sannikola.college@gov.mt.

• The Malta Hospice Movement will be holding a Mother's Day bring and buy cake sale at the Hospice, 39 Good Shepherd Avenue, Balzan, from tomorrow to Friday, from 9 a.m. till 1 p.m. They are also holding a Mother's Day buffet breakfast at the Suncrest Hotel, Qawra, on Tuesday at 10 a.m. For more information, call 2144 0085 or e-mail hospice@onvol.net.

• The festival of Palio della Carriera will be held in Malta for the first time from Tuesday to May 12. For more information, call 2122 2020 or e-mail hamrun.lc@gov.mt.

• A card games party in aid of the Little Sisters of the Poor will be held at the Preluna Hotel, Sliema, on Wednesday at 10 a.m. Call Blanche Martin on 2133 0387.

• A self-help group meeting organised by the Richmond Foundation for those experiencing mental health difficulties, will be held on Wednesday at 5.30 p.m. at 16 Antonio Agius Street, Floriana. For more information, call 2148 2336, 2144 0324, or e-mail info@richmond.org.mt.

• A plant sale will take place at the Argotti Botanic Gardens (University of Malta section), Floriana, from Wednesday to Friday, from 9 a.m. till 3 p.m. For further information, call 2124 8984.

• Antoinette Attard will deliver a talk on 'Life after breast cancer' to the Breast Care Support Group at the Malta Hospice Movement, 39 Good Shepherd Avenue, Balzan, on Thursday at 5.30 p.m. Non-members are welcome.