🏛️ Bucks History Fest Highlights

Good morning, Wycombe!

It’s the Wycombe Pulse — your weekly newsletter that’s currently running on mini Mars Bars and fake cobwebs. What a glorious time of year to be out and about.

There’s loads happening this week:

🏛️ Bucks History Fest kicks off
🎆 More fireworks than you can shake a sparkler at
🌙 A bonfire-night moonlight swim (yes, really!)

Plus a brand-new grassroots comedy night, heaps of Halloween parties, plenty of kids’ activities, a spotlight on our new favourite florist — and loads more local gems.

🌸 Fresh Blooms & Fresh Brews at Paeonya ☕️

Tucked away on Easton Street, Paeonya is your new go-to for gorgeous flowers and great coffee.

This independent local florist is bursting with beautiful fresh bouquets, dried and artificial arrangements, and now a brand-new coffee kiosk serving up barista-style coffees and sweet treats.

💐 Special offer: Treat someone (or yourself!) to a takeaway coffee + mini posy of flowers for just £8.95 — the perfect pick-me-up for friends, colleagues or partners.

Pop in and support a brilliant independent Wycombe florist doing things beautifully.

📍 94 Easton Street, High Wycombe
🤳🏼 Paeonya on Facebook
🕰️ Open daily 8am–5.30pm

Editor’s Highlights

🎆 Fireworks Night
📍HW Cricket Club | 🗓️ Friday 31st October | 🕰️ 5pm
Wrap up warm for a sparkling Halloween evening. Expect a dazzling fireworks display at 7.45pm, tasty eats from Hellfire BBQ and VS Woodfire Pizza, plus fairground fun and drinks from the Rebellion Bar.

🍔 Street Food Evening 
📍The Walled Garden | 🗓️ Friday 31st October | 🕰️ 5-9pm
Featuring some of the best local food trucks, including Burgervore, Oh Greeklicious and Pizza Please.

🌕🧨 Bonfire Night Moonlight Swim Party
📍Wycombe Rye Lido | 🗓️ Wednesday 5th November | 🕰️ 9pm
Enjoy a beautiful moonlit swim in the heated outdoor pool with music and fireworks in the distance.

🖼️ Beauty and the Best Art Exhibition
📍Fillingdon Fine Art | 🗓️ Saturday 1st - Friday 14th November | 🕰️ 10am-4pm
A glorious collection of paintings, sculpture, ceramics, jewellery and crafts, led by stunning wildlife watercolours from award-winning artist Karen Laurence-Rowe. Perfect for finding unique, hand-crafted gifts as every piece is original and made by independent makers.

🤣 Select Comedy @ Patch Wycombe – Thursday 6th November! 🎤

Wycombe’s brand-new grassroots comedy club is here — and it’s bringing the laughs! Hosted at Patch in The Old Library, this new night is run by local legend Elliot Wengler (of Speen Festival fame) and features a stellar line-up of circuit favourites and rising stars.

🎭 Headliner: Chris Norton Walker – award-winning comic, UK Pun Championship finalist and all-round joke machine.
⭐ Opener: Reb Day – razor-sharp storyteller, So You Think You’re Funny? runner-up, and tour support for Ria Lina and Bec Hill.
🔥 Plus sets from Siobhan Dodd and Dan Collins, with Elliot Wengler (Malcolm-Hardee Comedy Award Nominee 2024) as your MC.

Expect big laughs, unbeatable vibes, and a great night out at Wycombe’s favourite community spot.

📍 Patch, The Old Library
📅 Thursday 6th November, 7.30pm
🎟️ Tickets: £10/£9 for students, concessions (NHS, military etc)

Support local. Laugh loud.

The Going Out Guide 🕺🏻

• The Ghost Train at The Lancaster Arts Centre, Wycombe Abbey from Thursday 30th October to Saturday 1st November — a comedy thriller production by Fourways Theatre Company 🎭

• Bingo at The Front Room on Friday 31st October at 7pm.

🎨 Get Creative

• Fangtastic Needle Felting Workshop at Hughenden Village Store on tonight at 7pm — join Easely Does It for a spooky, creative evening 🦇

• MenSnap Meetup November at Django’s Coffee House on Monday 3rd November at 7pm — a photography-based mental wellness support group for men 📸

• Painting Party at Merletto Lounge on Monday 3rd November at 7pm.

• Draw a Cat with Mel at The Reading Room in Beaconsfield on Sunday 2nd November at 12pm — create your own ink illustration 🐈‍⬛

• Vintage, Vinyl and Pre-Loved Pop-Up at The Front Room on Saturday 1st November from 10am-4pm.

• Autumn Pumpkin Floral Arrangement Workshop at Moc & More Flackwell Heath on tonight and Friday at 7pm 🎃

Cultural Bites

• “Gunpowder Treason: the Why, the Who and the Wickedness of the Plot” talk at St Mary and All Saints Church, Beaconsfield on Saturday 1st November at 2.15pm — join the Beaconsfield Historical Society for a fascinating talk on the 1605 Gunpowder Plot 🧨

• Bucks Art Society Autumn Exhibition at Wendover Memorial Hall on Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd November from 10am-5pm (plus a preview evening on Friday 31st October at 6.30pm) — a great opportunity for art lovers and collectors to meet the local artists, and view and purchase their work 🖼️

• A Coldplay Candlelight Experience at St Mary & All Saints Church, Beaconsfield on Saturday 1st November from 5pm — a string trio playing all the classics 🎼

🔍 Family Fun Finder

• Children’s Halloween Party at the Wrights Meadow Centre on Sunday 2nd November from 3-6pm — entertainer and food included!

• Halloween Kids Crafts at Refresh in Chiltern Shopping Centre on today at 12.30-3.30pm — make bat wings and spiders. Free and no booking required!

• Halloween Party at Lane End Village Hall on Saturday 1st November at 7.30pm.

• Haunted House Treasure Trail in Flackwell Heath on Friday 31st October from 5-7pm — visit the haunted houses and enjoy a Halloween disco!

• Light Party at St Andrew’s Church on Friday 31st October at 4.30-6.30pm — a fun night for families with children aged 3-11.

• Family Craft Workshops at The Walled Garden all week — Easely Does It has a feast of workshops to choose from, including family painting, magic potion making, pumpkin painting and besom making.

• Halloween Fun Day at Smiffy’s Cafe Hazlemere on Friday 31st October from 9am-5pm — a spooky day filled with inflatables, treats, potions and more.

🧩 The Wycombe Wordle

Six goes to guess the word — and yes, it’s got a Wycombe connection. This one might stump you… message me if you figure it out!

🟩 Right letter, right spot
🟨 Right letter, wrong spot
⬜ Not in the word

👉 [Play here]

Sports & Activities

⚽ FOOTBALL

• Wycombe Wanderers vs Plymouth Argyle at home on Saturday 1st November. KO 3pm. Tickets are just £15 for adults and £1 for kids!

• Wycombe Wanderers FC Women vs Oxford City at Burnham FC on Sunday 2nd November. KO 2pm.

🏸 BADMINTON

Red Kites Badminton Club is welcoming new members — a friendly, non-competitive club for players of an intermediate standard. Play on Thursdays from 8-10pm @ Handy Cross Hub Sports Centre, Court A4.
For more info: contact Richard 07941 341154
Come and try for £5, then £30/month.

🏃🏻‍♂️ RUNNING

Marlow Half Marathon, The Frankenstein and Marlow 7 on Sunday 2nd November — beautiful running through Marlow and the Chiltern Hills. The Frankenstein is around 10km and multi-terrain.

Wendover Woods Marathon, Half Marathon, 10k & Junior Run on Sunday 2nd November from 9am. Stunning forest trails.

Regular runs: Parkrun (Saturday, Rye Lido, 9am) | Junior Parkrun (Sunday, Pann Mill, 9am) | Risborough Run In The Park (Sunday, Wades Park, 9am).

🥾 WALKING

The Walking Mum Club have their first walk on Wednesday 5th November at 1pm, meeting outside Silvios on the Rye. Join their Whatsapp group to stay up to date!

Community Notes 🕊️

All Saints Day Memorial Service
📍 St Anne’s Church, London Road
🗓️ Saturday 1st November, 4pm
🕯️ A peaceful service for anyone remembering loved ones.

Business News

B’Hive — a new cafe and bar — has just opened this week in the beautiful Wheatsheaf building at 1-2 High Street. We can’t wait to check it out soon!

That’s a wrap for this week’s Pulse!

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See you next Thursday,
Steph