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, the best country Christmas cards and the best hampers. If you’ve got Christmas shopping to do, look no further than…
Sometimes the most appreciated, useful or just plain fun gifts are not the most expensive. If you’re looking for inspiration, The Field‘s guide to the best Christmas presents under £50 is here. You might also find our Christmas gift guide for women, Christmas gift guide for men, Christmas gift guide…
Festive missives are best sent on cards with proper credentials, even better, and in support of a cracking countryside cause. Take your pick from The Field’s round-up of the best country Christmas cards for 2023. You might also be interested to take a peak at the best Christmas crackers, best…
If you’re feeling in need of inspiration for what to buy those who love to entertain, worry not. The Field‘s Christmas gift guide for the home is here to help with everything from baubles to backgammon. For more Christmas inspiration, be sure to take a look at our other seasonal…
If you’re short on ideas on what to buy the young guns this year, worry not. The Field‘s Christmas gift guide for children is here to help with everything from ponchos to party boxes. For more Christmas inspiration, be sure to take a look at our other invaluable seasonal features,…
The Christmas shopping panic can cease. The Field‘s Christmas gift guide for men has it in the bag, with everything from gilets and journals to cufflinks and caps. Be sure to also take a look at our Christmas gift guide for women, plus the best countryside Christmas cards, best Christmas…
In the last decade or so the prettily illustrated Advent calendar most remember from childhood – many with a Nativity scene or perhaps featuring snowy reindeer – has had an upgrade. First came chocolate treats for children and now there are hundreds of calendars filled with riches of all description…
Even Agatha Christie’s most diehard fans would not claim that the title tale of the short-story collection she published in 1960 is her finest mystery. The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding does, however, contain her most delightful description of a dessert. Sitting down to Christmas dinner, Hercule Poirot is confronted…
Where would Christmas be without hunting? Bing Crosby dreamt of a white Christmas with every Christmas card he wrote. When that card shows the traditional scene of the hunt on the village green or in the market square on Boxing Day, then so much the more Christmassy. And along with…
On one cerebral festive occasion in an Irish castle I was invited to join in an incomprehensible word-play game with two Oxford undergraduates, then in full command of their intellectual plumage and prowess. They must have thought me a dunce and a dullard for, in that drowning hour, I did…
