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Learn to shake and stir with our brilliant Thyme bartenders and impress your dinner guests for years to come. Make both a seasonal cocktail, and something classic. Enjoy your cocktails during the class or afterwards in the Baa Bar.
This festive season, learn to prepare the finest jams and pickles with help from Thyme’s top chefs. Gift your homemade preserves to those you love or stock the larder in preparation for the big day.
Impress your dinner guests this festive season with simple and delicious canapés. Fit for festive parties - or Christmas Day itself - these seasonal recipes will inspire and delight.
Join us for a deeply restorative Sound Ceremony - a collective sensory immersion into sound healing and guided meditation.
Join owner Jerry Hibbert for a fascinating talk and closer look at the history behind Thyme’s heritage buildings, to learn about 2000 years of life at Southrop before a seasonal lunch in the Ox Barn.
Learn to shake and stir with our brilliant Thyme bartenders and impress your dinner guests for years to come. Make both a seasonal cocktail, and something classic. Enjoy your cocktails during the class or afterwards in the Baa Bar.
This Stir-up Sunday, prepare a perfect Christmas pud with help from Thyme’s top chefs. Gift your pudding to someone special or stock the larder ready.
Join the stylish James Hamilton Maddock Jazz duo for a festive pre-dinner drinks party in the Baa Bar from 6:30pm – 8:00pm. Enjoy live saxaphone and double bass with canapés and apéritifs. Dinner reservations at The Ox Barn or The Swan are available from 8:00pm.
Join decorative artist Melissa White for a magical workshop, painting wooden boxes ideal for gifting or storage with chalk paints from Annie Sloan.
The Festive Instinctive Cook is Thyme’s long-standing flagship class reimagined for the Christmas season - a celebration of winter flavours, seasonal abundance and confident, intuitive cooking.
Join decorative artist Melissa White for a festive day of painting at Thyme. Using Annie Sloan Chalk Paint, you will learn to build tactical, layered base coats, experiment with quick and expressive seasonal motifs, and finish your pieces with subtle distressing and clear wax for an aged patina.
Impress your dinner guests this festive season with simple and delicious canapés. Fit for festive parties - or Christmas Day itself - these seasonal recipes will inspire and delight.
Join us for a deeply restorative Sound Ceremony - a collective sensory immersion into sound healing and guided meditation.
Join owner Jerry Hibbert for a fascinating talk and closer look at the history behind Thyme’s heritage buildings, to learn about 2000 years of life at Southrop before a seasonal lunch in the Ox Barn.
Learn to shake and stir with our brilliant Thyme bartenders and impress your dinner guests for years to come. Make both a seasonal cocktail, and something classic. Enjoy your cocktails during the class or afterwards in the Baa Bar.
Learn how to make excellent Christmas mince pies (delightful shortcrust pastry and perfectly spiced mince meat) with help from Thyme’s top chefs. Gift your mince pies to someone special or stock the larder ready. Just add brandy butter…
Explore the fundamentals of sourdough bread making with expert Max Abbott of Sourdough Revolution. Learn how make the perfect loaf before enjoying a light lunch of seasonal tart or muffaletta and salads, followed by a sweet treat.
Impress your dinner guests this festive season with simple and delicious canapés. Fit for festive parties - or Christmas Day itself - these seasonal recipes will inspire and delight.
Learn to shake and stir with our brilliant Thyme bartenders and impress your dinner guests for years to come. Make both a seasonal cocktail, and something classic. Enjoy your cocktails during the class or afterwards in the Baa Bar.
Learn to prepare a delicious selection of brunch favourites, fit for the festive season, all while building confidence in essential kitchen skills. After the class, sit down and enjoy your creations with your classmates.
Join globally celebrated cellists Julian and Jiaxin Lloyd Webber for a candlelit evening exploring the life and music of Bach. Seated in Thyme’s beautiful Tithe Barn, Julian will narrate the story of Bach, whilst his wife Jiaxin will perform a selection of his suites on the cello.
The Festive Instinctive Cook is Thyme’s long-standing flagship class reimagined for the Christmas season - a celebration of winter flavours, seasonal abundance and confident, intuitive cooking.
Impress your dinner guests this festive season with simple and delicious canapés. Fit for festive parties - or Christmas Day itself - these seasonal recipes will inspire and delight.
Join us for a deeply restorative Sound Ceremony - a collective sensory immersion into sound healing and guided meditation.
Join owner Jerry Hibbert for a fascinating talk and closer look at the history behind Thyme’s heritage buildings, to learn about 2000 years of life at Southrop before a seasonal lunch in the Ox Barn.
Learn to shake and stir with our brilliant Thyme bartenders and impress your dinner guests for years to come. Make both a seasonal cocktail, and something classic. Enjoy your cocktails during the class or afterwards in the Baa Bar.
Elevate the indulgence this Christmas and learn to make the most delightful seasonal sweets… Gift your hard work to those you love or stock the larder in preparation for the big day.
Join us in the Ox Barn for a special Wine Supper Club hosted by Nina Cerullo, a certified École du Vin de Bordeaux wine educator and ambassador for Vin du Médoc.
An evening of fun and games.
Join us at The Swan for Games & Game, our monthly pub night celebrating seasonal British game and good old-fashioned games around the table.
On Wednesday 18th November, we’re kicking things off with Mahjong.
Settle in for hearty game blackboard specials from the kitchen, a glass of house wine and some friendly rivalry around the tiles.
£35 per person, including a glass of house wine.
From 6.30pm. All welcome.
Impress your dinner guests this festive season with simple and delicious canapés. Fit for festive parties - or Christmas Day itself - these seasonal recipes will inspire and delight.
Join us for a deeply restorative Sound Ceremony - a collective sensory immersion into sound healing and guided meditation.
Let Alana gently lead you through a nurturing sound journey, combining the grounding properties of our Bertioli Breathing Balm with the expansive tones of crystal singing bowls, the resonance of the gong and the angelic qualities of her voice. These elements work in harmony to anchor you in the present moment, calm your nervous system and guide you into a state of deep meditative rest.
Rooted in ancient healing traditions, this Sound Ceremony uses soothing sound vibrations to connect with your body on a cellular level. The experience is designed to support brainwave entertainment, shifting you into the theta state - a realm associated with REM sleep, cellular regeneration and profound inner healing.
7:45am: Arrival - please wait in the Baa Bar, and Alana will come to greet you promptly at 8am.
8am - 9am: Sound Ceremony
9am - 9.30am: Time with Alana for any questions
Location: Tithe Barn
Please arrive 10 minutes early to find your space
All mats, blankets & bolsters are provided
9am - 10am: Non-residents are welcome to join us for a swim at the pool
Please note that the class starts promptly at 8am so we ask that all guests allow time to get settled before the class starts. Access to the pool is granted during the summer months when our spring-water pool is open.
Important: Sound Baths are not advisable to attend if you are pregnant, fitted with a pace-maker, have epilepsy or become triggered by sounds.
This class is complimentary for our guests staying at Thyme. Please email reservations@thyme.co.uk to book.
Cancellation Policy: Please note our happenings are non-refundable, however, if you are no longer able to attend, please let us know 72 hours prior to the event, and we can transfer your deposit to another schedule or to a voucher.
Join us in the Ox Barn for our monthly Wine Supper Club, hosted with Hundred Hills, an award-winning English vineyard in the heart of the Chiltern Hills, renowned for producing exceptional sparkling wines.