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Country Life UK
Seating plans
SOMETIMES I sits and thinks and sometimes I just sits,' explained Winnie-the-Pooh. How I envy his capacity to do nothing, especially in the garden.
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August 20,2025
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Keep the waterworks flowing
A CROWDFUNDING appeal is under way to raise $15,000 to restore the Victorian standpipe tower of the London Museum of Water & Steam and reopen it to the public.
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August 20,2025
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Save woods for red squirrels
RED-SQUIRREL aficionados in northern counties have launched a petition against the destruction which landowners are advised to retain at least 20% of woodland for biodiversity.
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August 20,2025
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Landscape saviours fight for role
THERE is nothing so disappointing as the discovery that a favourite view has suddenly been despoiled: a line of radio masts has been added, a field of solar panels, a large modern house that's been plopped onto the landscape.
1 min |
August 20,2025
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A good night for a fine performance
Television star Sean Hayes is a revelation on stage, Rosamund Pike should be garlanded for her role as a judge who finds her son in the dock and the whole company of Brigadoon takes the laurels
4 min |
August 20,2025
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A castle reborn
Glamis Castle, Angus, part 1 The seat of the Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne In the first of two articles, John Goodall explores the development of this medieval castle and its spectacular transformation into one of the landmark buildings of Scottish architecture
8 min |
August 20,2025
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Telling it how it was
From the smoke- blackened ‘engine room of the Empire’ came a group of radical artists that stripped art of heroism and sentiment and took the world by storm. Mary Miers traces the history of The Glasgow Boys
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August 20,2025
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Scotland's bonnie banks and braes
Whether by the high road or the low road, there's plenty awaiting buyers north of the Border, from a Baronial estate to a private island
7 min |
August 20,2025
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Village post offices: have your say
THE Department of Business and Trade (DBT) has warned that the current level of taxpayer funding for the postal service is 'unsustainable'.
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August 20,2025
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Come shell or high water
Rugged coastlines, surging tides and deep, cold water put Scottish shellfish in a class of its own. Nick Hammond heads north to taste his way around some seafood hotspots
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August 20,2025
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Wild at heart
He might be best known for his rollicking tales, but there was always more to John Buchan than derring-do. On the 150th anniversary of the author's birth, Jack Watkins looks back at a remarkable writing life rooted in the countryside
5 min |
August 20,2025
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Singing for England
A master of disguise, inexplicably shy and unpredictably wild, the increasingly rare ring ouzel warrants giving any blackbird a second glance, says Mark Cocker
4 min |
August 20,2025
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Northern exposure
Innovative 21st-century composting and mulching techniques combined with a 19th-century shelterbelt ensure that these famous gardens continue to thrive, writes Caroline Donald
4 min |
August 20,2025
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The designer's room
Hiding the conveniences of modern-day living lends a timeless feel to the kitchen of this 18th-century house
1 min |
August 20,2025
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Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone
IT is unsurprising that the Edinburgh-born scientist and inventor Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922) was motivated to improve communication: his mother was deaf, his grandfather and father taught elocution to the deaf and he was a teacher at schools for the deaf in North America, where the family had emigrated, subsequently marrying a former pupil, Mabel Hubbard.
1 min |
August 20,2025
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The art of the matter
Why contemporary art should become a feature of everyday life
2 min |
August 20,2025
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When Britannia ruled the waves
ARTS Minister Sir Chris Bryant has placed an export bar on an extraordinary collection of British maritime charts, valued at $6 million, which is at risk of being sold abroad.
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August 20,2025
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Defender of the fish
I HAVE a friend who describes his past career as 'more of a verb than a noun'.
2 min |
August 20,2025
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One in a million
Three glorious West Country houses, including one that made property-price history, have come to the market
5 min |
August 13, 2025
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Colour outside the lines
Looking back at the past few months, an antique nest of drawers made to house artists’ pigments and a group exhibition of drawings spanning 500 years stand out as some of the most intriguing offerings of the summer
4 min |
August 13, 2025
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Don't be afraid of the dark
Why subtle lighting is about more than a dimmer switch
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August 13, 2025
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Heart Deco
Art Deco, with its exuberant passion for geometry, luxury and shiny chrome, cocooned troubled times in a layer of glitz. A century after the style gained its name, Gavin Plumley surveys one of the 20th century's most all- encompassing movements
6 min |
August 13, 2025
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It's good to stork
Long unseen on British shores, white stork chicks are hatching once again in the UK and a colony is now flourishing in West Sussex thanks to a pioneering restoration project, finds Jack Watkins
5 min |
August 13, 2025
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Back from the brink
The garden at Ballynure House, Co Wicklow, Ireland The home of Clare Reid Scott Where brambles once engulfed the historic gardens, colourful flower borders now hum with pollinators, writes Jane Powers Photographs by Jonathan Hession
4 min |
August 13, 2025
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Give me shelter
Verandahs and their Italian cousins, loggias, offer the delight of sitting outside, yet always protected from blazing sunshine and downpours. Arabella Youens finds houses with the answer to the British climate
2 min |
August 13, 2025
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Bring me sunshine
Powerfully garlicky and profoundly convivial, Le Grand Aïoli is pure Provence on a happy plate, says Tom Parker Bowles of this ‘joyous circus’ of vegetables, eggs, shellfish, charcuterie, chicken and salt cod
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August 13, 2025
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Sarnia-Cherie
The only British territories to endure Nazi occupation, the Channel Islands became a symbol of stoic resilience, says Adam Hay-Nicholls, as he celebrates the 80th anniversary of Guernsey's liberation
5 min |
August 13, 2025
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Great Dixter revisited
An enduring inspiration: the Great Dixter gardens still set the standard after 100 years
3 min |
August 13, 2025
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Winning moves
From a contemporary waterside retreat to a supremely elegant Georgian townhouse, Holly Kirkwood selects the finest properties currently for sale across Guernsey
3 min |
August 13, 2025
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‘In Guernsey, art is part of the conversation’
Inspiration is never far away in an enchanting place that has called to Renoir, Victor Hugo and a host of other creative people, finds Russell Higham
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