Entertainment
Country Life UK
The West awakes
All is abuzz in the West Country following a recent surge of activity in the market for large farms and country houses in some of the region's most picturesque locations
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September 25, 2024
Country Life UK
Bags of class
Combining classical elegance with distinctive detailing, Lalage Beaumont is passionate about creating bags of exceptional style and quality.
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September 25, 2024
Country Life UK
Sparkle of genius
Historic jewellery firm Hancocks, now in its new St James's home, specialises in old-cut diamond pieces that gleam and turn heads even in low light
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September 25, 2024
Country Life UK
Singing the end-ofsummertime blues
As September bids a melancholic farewell, John LewisStempel looks to the transformative power of Nature and our agricultural rites and rituals to stave off his regret at summer's passing for another year
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September 25, 2024
Country Life UK
Playing fast and loose
Buoyant and brazen, the hard-riding, tough-talking and gun-toting highwaywomen of the 17th and 18th centuries struck fear and awe into the hearts of the nation
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September 25, 2024
Country Life UK
Life on the hedge
The modern hedgelayer's role is no longer that of a fencer, but instead a practical conservationist creating vibrant, thorny arteries of hedgerow habitat
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September 25, 2024
Country Life UK
Navigating nostalgia
Once the bustling arteries of the Industrial Revolution, today's British canals are places of tranquillity, joy and community, says Joseph Phelan, as he explores their timeless appeal.
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September 25, 2024
Country Life UK
'A well-resorted tavern' - Mount Vernon, Virginia, US, part I A property in the care of Mount Vernon Ladies' Association
In the first of two articles, Jeremy Musson looks at the remarkable history and preservation of the country home of America's first president
8 min |
September 25, 2024
Country Life UK
Happiness in small things
Putting life into perspective and forces of nature in farming
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September 11, 2024
Country Life UK
Colour vision
In an eye-baffling arrangement of geometric shapes, a sinister-looking clown and a little girl, Test Card F is one of television’s most enduring images, says Rob Crossan
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September 11, 2024
Country Life UK
'Without fever there is no creation'
Three of the top 10 operas performed worldwide are by the emotionally volatile Italian composer Giacomo Puccini, who died a century ago. Henrietta Bredin explains how his colourful life influenced his melodramatic plot lines
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September 11, 2024
Country Life UK
The colour revolution
Toxic, dull or fast-fading pigments had long made it tricky for artists to paint verdant scenes, but the 19th century ushered in a viridescent explosion of waterlili
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September 11, 2024
Country Life UK
Bullace for you
The distinction between plums, damsons and bullaces is sweetly subtle, boiling down to flavour and aesthetics, but don’t eat the stones, warns John Wright
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September 11, 2024
Country Life UK
Lights, camera, action!
Three remarkable country houses, two of which have links to the film industry, the other the setting for a top-class croquet tournament, are anything but ordinary
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September 11, 2024
Country Life UK
I was on fire for you, where did you go?
In Iceland, a land with no monks or monkeys, our correspondent attempts to master the art of fishing light’ for Salmo salar, by stroking the creases and dimples of the Midfjardara river like the features of a loved one
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September 11, 2024
Country Life UK
Bravery bevond belief
A teenager on his gap year who saved a boy and his father from being savaged by a crocodile is one of a host of heroic acts celebrated in a book to mark the 250th anniversary of the Royal Humane Society, says its author Rupert Uloth
4 min |
September 11, 2024
Country Life UK
Let's get to the bottom of this
Discovering a well on your property can be viewed as a blessing or a curse, but all's well that ends well, says Deborah Nicholls-Lee, as she examines the benefits of a personal water supply
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September 11, 2024
Country Life UK
Sing on, sweet bird
An essential component of our emotional relationship with the landscape, the mellifluous song of a thrush shapes the very foundation of human happiness, notes Mark Cocker, as he takes a closer look at this diverse family of birds
6 min |
September 11, 2024
Country Life UK
Civic splendour
St Mary's Guildhall, Coventry A property of Coventry City Council
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September 11, 2024
Country Life UK
Put a smile on your garden
John Hoyland celebrates the renewed popularity of the irrepressibly cheerful pelargonium
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September 11, 2024
Country Life UK
The shadows fall
SEPTEMBER brings a strange surge of energy, gleaming cosmos and dahlias and all those rusty, dry, hairy plants: echinacea, rudbeckia, zinnias.
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September 11, 2024
Country Life UK
How to time travel to spring
The anticipation of cheerful spring bulbs can keep the gardener going through the dull winter months. John Hoyland advises on what to plant for every situation, from gravel to orchards, sun, shade or in pots
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September 11, 2024
Country Life UK
The summit of achievement
The garden at Friar Park, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire The home of Olivia and the late George Harrison
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September 11, 2024
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All dolled up
Automata made in 19th-century France provided inspiration for the work of American artist Thomas Kuntz and a vintage dolls' house, furnished with period-appropriate pieces, stars in a charity auction
4 min |
September 04, 2024
Country Life UK
Just keep walking
ALMOST 30 years ago, a chap called Ian Bleasdale wrote a guide detailing all the walks on the Greek Island of Paxos. He and his wife, Elizabeth, had fallen for the island's rugged charms and, after many visits tramping its networks of old paths, decided to share their knowledge with like-minded souls.
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September 04, 2024
Country Life UK
Delicious drupes
THERE is a peculiar magic in growing almonds. However often you see their soul-lifting, frost-risking flush of white blossom and however often you collect a basket of homegrown almonds, it's hard to lose the sense of glorious impossibility, that somehow you've cheated geography and climate.
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September 04, 2024
Country Life UK
It started with a blank canvas
The garden of Patthana, Co Wicklow, Ireland The home of T. J. Maher and Simon Kirby An exquisite small garden is rich in colour and texture and has been imaginatively extended, as you would expect of a painter's domain, reports Jane Powers
5 min |
September 04, 2024
Country Life UK
Escape to 'God's own country"
Yorkshire folk are rightly proud of their county's magnificent landscapes and rich architectural heritage, but incomers looking to settle there face strong competition from local contenders for picture-perfect country houses
4 min |
September 04, 2024
Country Life UK
By the light of the harvest moon
As autumn's whisper reminds farmers to reap their crops, inspect your produce for a suggestion of the winter to come, says Lia Leendertz
1 min |
September 04, 2024
Country Life UK
Building blocks
We can expect fireworks: Labour’s draft plans for a new planning policy contain subtle, but devastating amendments that bear closer inspection
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