The Midi téléphérique lifts you from ‘chic’ Chamonix into one of the most savage but beautiful mountain wildernesses on the planet: the Mont Blanc massif. I once overheard a member…
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The best picnic blankets around picked out by The Field
Now spring is here our minds turn to picnics, sports days, cricket matches – and having picnic blankets to hand is a must. In any case, a rug in the…
Saving the eiderdown: how to give an old eiderdown a new lease of life
The finishing touch to a well-made bed (along with hospital corners) used to be an eiderdown, which would lie on top to perform both a decorative, and warming function. Then…
Lives well lived
Why We Garden by Claire Masset My immediate reaction to the title was to respond “but I don’t”. However, this is true only insofar as I outsource it because others…
April 2023
The Field’s April issue is packed with exceptional gundog content. Alec Marsh asks the age-old question: how many dogs does a committed countryman really need? We look at the history…
Books to open windows on the world
The Lighted Window by Peter Davidson The subtitle of this meditative, lyrical, affecting work is ‘Evening Walks Remembered’, and there is indeed a rambling quality to it – in the…
Six of the best properties with ponds
If you enjoy gazing at lily pads with frogs atop them or perhaps dipping your feet in water when the weather gets too hot then these properties with ponds are…
The Field’s top 5 pie recipes
There’s little to top a pie, unless of course it is a delicious pastry top or buttery mashed potato. Here, The Field shines a spotlight on five of our favourites.…
Field Interview: Annika Purdey
Annika Purdey is poised by the grand fireplace in the Long Room at Audley House, the headquarters of James Purdey & Sons in Mayfair. She’s having her photograph taken and…
Life hacks – another word for tips. Here are some of our favourites from Field readers
You may have started hearing the phrase ‘life hack’ and wondered what it meant? Well, it’s a newly minted word for an old expression – basically a life hack is…