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Good morning, Wycombe!

It’s the Wycombe Pulse — fully submerged in the Christmas zone now. The kids are off school and plastered in temporary tattoos, I’ve lost all concept of what day it is, and am embracing a diet of Christmas cocktails and various sausage-related canapés.

Bliss.

Lots of fun in town this week, including…

🔥❄️ Christmas Eve session at the Wild Spa
🛼 Festive roller disco!
🌟 Service of 9 Lessons & Carols at All Saints

Plus Christmas concerts galore, plenty of kid-friendly fun to keep everyone going until the Big Day, a few wellness moments (trust me, you’ll need them), and lots more to ease you gently into the holidays.

Editor’s Highlights

🏓 Doubles Table Tennis Tournament
📍Wycombe Rye Lido | 🗓 Fri 19th December, 4-7pm
A fun, fast-paced doubles tournament, open to all ages and abilities! Feel free to come with a partner or come solo and get paired up.

🎷 Andrew Bourn’s Christmas Swing Spectacular
📍 Wycombe Abbey School Theatre | 🗓 Sat 20th December, 6pm doors
Get into the festive spirit with this high-energy evening of big-band favourites and Christmas classics from a Britain’s Got Talent alumnus — all in support of Thames Hospice and other charities.

🧑‍🧒 Parent & Child Christmas Soundbath
📍The Guildhall | 🗓 Mon 22nd December, 6.20pm
A magical soundscape and bonding experience this Christmas, with a bedtime story and soothing sound bath.

🌟 Service of Nine Lessons & Carols
📍All Saints Church | 🗓 Sun 21st December, 5pm
A traditional service sung by the All Saints choir with congregational carols, telling the biblical story of Jesus’ birth.

🔥❄️ Christmas Eve Festive Relaxation Session
📍Slohaus Wild Spa, Peterley Manor Farm | 🗓 Weds 24th December, 10am
A communal session where you’ll be able to use the wood fired sauna, cold tubs, hot tub, cold shower and fire pit. A fantastic way to relax before the big day…

🪷 Wellness Moments

A little calm among the chaos — here’s where to unwind this week:

🗓️ Friday 19th Dec

🕯️Winter Solstice Event
📍Naphill Village Hall, 7pm
ℹ️ A beautiful candlelit experience of gentle yoga, meditation, breath work and sound healing

🔔 Sound Healing & Gong Meditation
📍Penn Street Village Hall, 5.20pm

🗓️ Sunday 21st Dec

🧘🏻‍♀️ Yuletide Yoga & Festive Feasting
📍Tylers Green Village Hall, 4pm
ℹ️ All welcome for a pre-Christmas treat of gentle, restorative yoga followed by a festive feast.

🗓️ Monday 22nd Dec

🔔 Late Night Sound Bath
📍The Guildhall, 8.30pm
ℹ️ Join Hanae Harmony for a late night special ✨

🫘 Jack and the Beanstalk – Wycombe Swan ✨

We were invited along this week and it’s everything you want from a proper Christmas panto: laugh-out-loud jokes, genuinely impressive singing (yes, including Mark Read from A1 👀), spot-on local references (sorry, Wycombe Museum 🫣) and big festive energy from start to finish.

Stand-out moments:
⭐ La Voix — pure sass and wit, even an orthopaedic boot couldn’t slow her down
😈 Jo Osmond — a gloriously fun villain
😂 Matt Edwards — expertly toeing the fine line between hilarious and just a bit gross

This one genuinely works for all ages — my kids (6 & 4) were hooked, and my 60-something mother-in-law was laughing just as hard.

A Wycombe tradition for a reason 💚

📍 Wycombe Swan Theatre
🎟️ Tickets from £12 here
📆 Running until Sun 4 Jan

🔎 Family Fun Finder

From grottos to crafty workshops, here’s what’s happening for families this week.

🗓️ Fri 19th Dec

🎄Christmas Fun Day
📍Smiffy’s Café @ Hazlemere Youth Centre, 10am | £8 disco / £6 lunch
ℹ️ A special event with PreSchool Disco followed by lunch and a gift from Father Christmas 🎅

🗓️ Sat 20th Dec

🎅🏻 Santa’s Grotto
📍The Little Gym Handy Cross, From 9am | £29
ℹ️ Christmas-themed gymnastics activities, sleigh rides, snowball games, crafts and Santa’s grotto

🛼 Christmas Roller Disco
📍Hazlemere Youth Centre, 1pm and 3.30pm | £7.15 entry / £2.10 skate hire

🎁 Family Fun Day
📍Widmer Farm Park, 10am-2pm | £4.50 (free for under 2s)
ℹ️ Face painting, Christmas trail, card making, pottery painting and more.

🎅🏻 Christmas Santa Event
📍Playtrain, 5.30pm | £21
ℹ️ Santa visit (with gifts!), snacks, arts and crafts, snow machine, face paint and much more.

🎶 Monkey Music Christmas Workshops
📍Walled Garden, various times | £14
ℹ️ Babies and children up to 6 will love this festive session — think Christmas tree decorating, sing-alongs, merry sounds and lots of dancing.

🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 Family Catch-up Café
📍St Anne’s Church, 10am-12pm
ℹ️ Children’s toys and games for all ages, themed craft activities, tea, coffee and homemade cake. No need to have any affiliation with the church.

🗓️ Sun 21st Dec

🖼️ Christmas Discover & Make: Sparkling Stained Glass
📍Wycombe Museum, various times | £4.50
ℹ️ Learn how to create your own colourful “stained glass” decoration to take home — perfect for windows, trees or gifting.

👩‍🍳 Gingerbread Decorating
📍Pony Espresso, Walters Ash, 11am | £10
ℹ️ Kids aged 4-12 welcome to decorate gingerbread cookies together.

🗓️ Mon 22nd Dec

🥞 Kids’ Brunch
📍The Stag Flackwell Heath, 11.30am-2.30pm
ℹ️ Includes a special appearance from Father Christmas with gifts for every child, plus a film and entertainment.

🚂 Christmas Wooden Train Craft Workshop
📍Hughenden NT, 10.30am; and on Tues 23rd Dec | £6

📮 Christmas Post Box Craft Workshop
📍Hughenden NT, 11.45am; and on Tues 23rd Dec | £6

🎂 Children’s Christmas Cake Workshop
📍Carrington Junior School, 10am-3pm | £50
ℹ️ A fun day for kids aged 5+ with Rachels Creative Cooking.

🗓️ Tues 23rd Dec

🍽️ Paint-a-Plate for Santa
📍The Walled Garden, 9.30am | £20
ℹ️ Perfect for leaving cookies and a carrot on!

🎨 Christmas Art & Crafts Workshop
📍Cedar Barn Stables, 1.30-4pm | £25
ℹ️ An afternoon of creativity for children aged 5 to 14 years old.

🗓️ Weds 24th Dec

🌟 Light The Dark
📍From Hazlemere Library, 5.30pm
ℹ️ A family light procession followed by carols at Manor Farm Infant School.

🎄 Family Xmas Eve Party
📍Yates, 2-5pm

🎭 Pantomimes

• Snow White and the 11 ½ Dwarfs — The Curzon Centre | 21st-24th Dec

• Aladdin — Tylers Green Village Hall | Fri 19th Dec, 3pm

🎼 Christmas Carols & Music

Whether you want candlelit classics or a full brass band moment, here’s this week’s festive music.

🗓️ Today

🎶 Christmas Carols on the Common
📍Tylers Green, 5.30pm
ℹ️ Plus hot chocolate, mulled wine and small lanterns for sale!

🎺 Brass Band & Carols
📍Le De Spencers Arms, 7.30pm
ℹ️ Held outside with The High Wycombe Brass Band

🎵 Christmas Carols
📍Hill’s Cafe Micklefield, 5.30pm
ℹ️ Plus festive refreshments.

🗓️ Sat 20th Dec

🎼 A Christmas Fantasy
📍St Marys & All Saints Church, Beaconsfield, 7.30pm
ℹ️ The Wooburn Singers return for their Christmas concert, featuring choral music by Vaughan Williams, and carols for choir and audience.

🎺 Bisham Concert Band Christmas Cracker
📍Stokenchurch Community Centre, 7.30pm
ℹ️ An evening of music plus festive refreshments.

🎶 Christmas Carol & Raffle Evening
📍Wrights Meadow Centre, 5pm

🗓️ Sun 21st Dec

☃️ Chiltern Hills Brass Presents The Snowman
📍Radnage Village Hall, 3pm
ℹ️ A screening of the classic animated film The Snowman — but with a festive twist: a live brass band playing alongside for that extra magic and musical sparkle.

🎶 Lissie Allsopp Live
📍Hughenden NT, 11am-2pm
ℹ️ Festive jazz.

🕯️Carols by Candlelight
📍St Anne’s Church Wycombe Marsh, 6pm
ℹ️ All your favourite carols and Christmas readings, followed by mulled wine, mince pies and other festive treats.

🗓️ Mon 22nd Dec

🎶 Christmas Carols
📍The Full Moon, Little Kingshill, 7pm
ℹ️ Mulled wine and a festive sing-song!

🎄Even More Christmas Fun

🐾 Sausage Fest Christmas Special — Magnolia Park | Sun 21 Dec | 2.30pm
💃🏻 Festive Fun with Luna — O’Neills | Fri 19 Dec | 9pm
🎰 Christmas Bingo — The Three Horse Shoes, Hazlemere | Sun 21 Dec | 8pm

And if it’s all a bit too much…

Grinchmas at The Antelope on Wednesday 24th December from 9pm — free entry and no Christmas music!

Pub Quizzes

• At The Crown Penn on tonight at 7.30pm

• At the Belle Vue on tonight at 8pm.

• Christmas Quiz at The Bricklayers Arms on Saturday 19th December at 8pm

Sports & Activities

If you need a break from mince pies, here’s what’s happening on the pitch.

⚽ FOOTBALL

Wycombe Wanderers vs Bolton Wanderers at home on Saturday 20th December. KO 3pm.

🏉 RUGBY

HWRUFC vs Gosford All Blacks away on Saturday 20th December.

🏃🏻‍♂️ RUNNING

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

🧩 The Wycombe Wordle

Six guesses to find the word with a Wycombe link.

Game rules:
🟩 Right letter, right place
🟨 Right letter, wrong place
⬜ Not in the word

👉 [Play here]

Business News

The Flint Cottage has a brand new manager, Danny, who’s working on getting the pub into ship-shape condition.

Come down and say hello:

🍻 They’re fully stocked with beer, lager, spirits and wine
🍻 Homemade mulled wine for £4.50
🍻 Free pool for the rest of December
🍻 Free pool on Mondays coming in January
🍻 Quiz nights coming back in January
🍻 Food coming Feb 2026

That’s a wrap for this week’s Pulse!

Have a wonderful Christmas — eat well, rest lots, ignore your inbox, and enjoy every twinkly moment.

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See you in two weeks,
Steph