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 ✨
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
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
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