The Field, in association with Westley Richards and Delaney & Sons, challenges you to bag a Macnab between 12 August and 10 November 2026. Join the club and take part in The Macnab Challenge. Here are the Macnab Challenge rules. THE FIELD’S MACNAB CHALLENGE RULES All Macnabs to be…
I’ve never been entirely sure about convertibles. I was put off in my younger days by a friend’s Alfa Romeo Spider. It was pretty with its Pininfarina styling but with the hood down your hair was parted in the middle by the wind, you couldn’t hear yourself speak and most…
Thai basil venison mince stir-fry with crispy egg recipe Ingredients 1 tbsp fish sauce 1 tbsp soy sauce 1 lime, zest and juice 4 spring onions, thinly sliced 1/2 to 1 red chilli, thinly sliced 10g ginger, peeled and finely grated 15g Thai basil leaves, roughly shredded 15g coriander leaves,…
Whether taking to the heather of the Highlands in pursuit of the monarch of the glen or searching the woodlands of the Home Counties for a sorrel, stalkers need a rifle fit for the task. From utilitarian tools of the trade, built to absorb the toughest conditions the hill can…
Prue Leith is insatiable. One of her earliest memories is her father saying “never get between Prue and her victuals”. But this hunger and passion is for pretty much everything: gardening, the countryside, food production, fishing, The Great British Bake Off, universities, television, British Rail, cats, her dogs Tattie and…
How do we deal with our dogs? Dogs get left in the back corridor or chucked in the kennels and it’s only when they start barking that we rush out to see how they are. Or they plod along with us from drive to drive completely ignored until they run…
Finding a weekend date that 14 friends can all make is tricky enough; finding a house that meets everyone’s requirements is even harder. Salvation arrived in the form of Cothelstone Manor: a magnificent Grade II Elizabethan house beautifully situated on the southern slopes of the Quantock Hills in Somerset. It…
The Great Exhibition of 1851 saw a dazzling variety of inventions shown to the public for the first time, from flushing toilets and waterproof watches to Samuel Colt’s Navy revolver. But one particular brainchild has brought more amusement than most and is still very much part of a British summer:…
Hugh Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale, was born in 1857. He was the second son of Colonel Henry Lowther and Emily Caulfeild, who was the daughter of St George Caulfeild of Donamon Castle in Roscommon, Ireland. In 1872 the Colonel inherited the earldom from his uncle and with it 100,000…
The ancestral roots of the world’s most popular pedigree dog, the labrador, may have come to us via the Atlantic but it’s the most British of animals, despite its name. And that name is misleading. If you believe the historians, the first labradors came from Newfoundland, though quite how they…
