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Golden Guernsey goat
GUERNSEY'S fine-boned native goat, with Tits rippling coat a palette of pale gold and rust shades, has been proven genuinely to originate from the Channel Island, thanks to DNA research carried out by the University of Córdoba in Spain.
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April 05, 2023
Country Life UK
Beneath the rose
Campion Hall, Oxford, part I: The task of creating a Jesuit hall in Oxford in the 1930s was eagerly assumed by Sir Edwin Lutyens. In the first of two articles, Clive Aslet reveals the story of this remarkable building
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April 05, 2023
Country Life UK
Halls of fame
Although they may no longer feature medieval remains, use of the word 'hall' signifies a building of exception
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April 05, 2023
Country Life UK
The lonesome crowded west
Their proximity to London, combined with their serene landscapes, make Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire as desirable as ever
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April 05, 2023
Country Life UK
All in the family
generation takes on As the fifth the care of this historic garden, Charles Quest-Ritson rejoices in the unique legacy of its horticulturally astute owners
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April 05, 2023
Country Life UK
Currant thinking
IN a jar to the side of my desk sit a number of upturned items: a 6H pencil from the table at which my father wrote that I use for sketching garden plans, a pen for writing plant labels and a fork that’s more practical than pretty.
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April 05, 2023
Country Life UK
Treasure island
With acres of towering Scottish hills to stalk and myriad remote islands to explore, the Benmore estate is a dreamland for each generation
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April 05, 2023
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All aboard for all connections
Take your time and travel in old-fashioned luxury aboard the revived Orient Express, advises Rosie Paterson
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April 05, 2023
Country Life UK
A slippery slope
OVER a family dinner recently, we began reminiscing about memorable meals. Not the home- cooked variety round the kitchen table, but overseas feasts relished on holiday, those unforgettable breakfasts, lunches or dinners that, for whatever reason, have lodged a place in our memories.
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April 05, 2023
Country Life UK
The passion and the paintings
The pathos of the Easter story has inspired some artists to create their best and most affecting work, from Michelangelo to Dalí, Giotto to Inchbald. Michael Prodger highlights both the heart-stopping and the heart-breaking -and the sheer bravura of it all
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April 05, 2023
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Lübeck's in the air
When aesthete Harold Peto met 'modest and retiring' Ernest George, the London skyline turned into a riot of German, Flemish and Dutch gables that delighted and horrified people in equal measure, as Carla Passino discovers
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April 05, 2023
Country Life UK
Fiddling while Britain burns
WE’RE going to be warned by mobile phone if we’re likely to be flooded or threatened by storms or, eventually, terrorism. The Government has done a deal with the mobile-phone operators that will cover 90% of the country.
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March 29, 2023
Country Life UK
Putting Man on the map
UNTIL the publication of Jonathan Kewley’s book, my scant knowledge about the ancient kingdom of Man amounted to the deathly TT motorcycle races, Manx cats without tails, Baillie Scott’s inventive Arts-and-Crafts houses and Sir John Betjeman’s elegiac essay, when he went ‘tramping kneedeep in blaeberry bushes on the wild west coast’, was exhilarated by the narrow-gauge railways and transfixed by the Tynwald Day celebrations.
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March 29, 2023
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New kid on the block
The new Línea Maestra line by Cuba's Partagás is worthy of enthusiasm
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March 29, 2023
Country Life UK
Return to magnificent Maastricht
After the dramas, the TEFAF fair is back as the art world's most important showcase
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March 29, 2023
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Faithful and fearless to the last
From the lifelike painting of majestic otterhound Brizo to Queen Victoria's affectionate portrait of her beloved dachshund, Waldmann, we've long turned to art to celebrate our cherished canine companions, says Matthew Dennison
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March 29, 2023
Country Life UK
It's only natural
Inspired by the crystal-clear swimming lakes of Austria and Germany, natural swimming pools are making more of a splash here than ever, says Anna Tyzack
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March 29, 2023
Country Life UK
The first unfurling
I NEVER quite remember how glorious it is going to be, that first day in spring when I can stay out all day in the garden, not doing anything unpleasant such as pruning roses, but simply fiddling about—a bit of weeding, a bit of tying in, but mostly just wandering, fitting myself back into the plot.
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March 29, 2023
Country Life UK
Rare brilliance
Ven House, Milborne Port, Somerset The home of Mike Fisher and Charles Allen, the Lord Allen of Kensington There are few more beautiful houses in the South-West than Ven. But its formal gardens are in some ways even more remarkable, representing an extremely rare survival from the English Baroque. Christopher Stocks delves into their long and fascinating history
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March 29, 2023
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Hold the fort
Castles and castellated buildings have a fairy tale-like allure over some buyers-especially those from overseas or with a love of history
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March 29, 2023
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The hovercraft
YOU knew you were living in the age of the hovercraft when James Bond (Sean Connery), impersonating a jewel smuggler, boarded one to cross the English Channel in Diamonds Are Forever (1971). They even blasted out the thrilling 007 theme as the camera zoomed in on a hovercraft symbol above the Port of Dover entrance as if it was an exotic beast, then cut to the SR-N4 Princess Margaret surfing away from the white cliffs.
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March 29, 2023
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Join the club
Looks can be deceiving, as Eleanor Doughty discovers on a visit to the thoroughly modern Walbrook Club in the City of London
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March 29, 2023
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Who are you calling names?
From butterfly-friendly buddleia to decorative fuchsia, some of our most familiar shrubs owe their names to the friendship or admiration that linked botanists of the past.
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March 29, 2023
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Don't rain on my parade
Can we really control the weather? The implications are scary and complicated, but we should be researching the idea for use in a responsible way
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March 29, 2023
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Breaking fresh ground
As he toils behind his rotavator on a March morning, John Lewis-Stempel breathes in the heady scent of turned soil and is cheered by the repetitive call of the chiffchaff that heralds the arrival of spring Illustration by Michael Frith
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March 29, 2023
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Regal splendour and renewal
Windsor Castle, Berkshire An official residence of His Majesty King Charles III As the new reign begins, John Martin Robinson takes an exclusive look at the recently completed representation of the State Apartments at Windsor Castle
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March 29, 2023
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A charter for second homes
The demand for second homes has intensified in recent years and, in some areas, has provoked intense resentment, as well as punitive taxation. Simon Jenkins considers the positive contribution second homers can make and proposes a charter to clarify their responsibilities
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March 15, 2023
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Women at war
In the historical context of the First World War, entrenched traditionalism, separate spheres ideology, patriarchy and, to some extent, Imperialism all contributed to the argument against using women in wartime British intelligence,’ writes Sarah-Louise Miller.
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March 08, 2023
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A prince of painters
Cosmopolitan, enigmatic and passionate about early Italian Masters, Frederic, Lord Leighton, shaped 19th-century British art and should be better remembered for his technically excellent, opulent work, laments Jack Watkins
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March 22, 2023
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The woman who had it all
A rare female presence in an art world dominated by men, Berthe Morisot could have faced solitude or even catastrophe, but rose to become one of France's leading Impressionists, as Caroline Bugler discovers
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