Before you settle down and enjoy our round-up of the best Christmas puddings, take a look at our other festive features including the best crackers, luxury advent calendars and countryside…
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Best cocktail making kit to mix with
The best cocktail making kit should be sleek, sophisticated and sublime. There is nothing better than a man who can handle his jigger.
Apple Trees
There are three certain things in life: death, taxes and the presence of at least one apple tree in the garden you get when you move house. Of all ‘top…
Stir-Up Sunday: stir up, we beseech thee
Though a family Christmas pudding recipe can be fiercely protected, this pud’s popularity is dying out. But come Stir-Up Sunday we must be prepared to wield the wooden spoon, insists…
The Best Christmas Crackers
Before reading our guide to the best Christmas crackers, don’t forget to check out more fabulous festive content from The Field including our look at the best luxury advent calendars,…
Sporting Diana: Clare Brownlow
I have been out in the field or on a riverbank for as long as I can remember. My father and mother encouraged me from a young age to fish…
Buying Gifts For Gardeners
‘Tis the season to spend money and ’tis no good pushing back against the fact. Nor, I imagine, do we really want to, since we don’t want to be thought…
Hunting Mares
People are very rarely lukewarm when it comes to an opinion on hunting mares. The naysayers condemn them as complicated, high-maintenance and slaves to their hormones, while those in the…
10 ways to become an expert shot
Shooting well increases satisfaction and pays due respect to the quarry. It is, moreover, a waste to perform badly when almost anyone may, with just a little effort, shoot proficiently.…
The Barnsdale hotel review
For many of those who have grown up in or near Rutland, Barnsdale Lodge will long have been a fixture. In my memory it played host to a hunt bash…