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Country Life UK
My Favourite Painting Stephen Bayley
The Punishment of Lust
1 min |
November 29, 2017
Country Life UK
Turning Tables
Powerful and darkly humorous, Paula Rego’s paintings and drawings use stories to examine her own experiences. John McEwen commends two current exhibitions of her work
3 min |
November 29, 2017
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The Advent Of Daily Musical Delights
Silent Night and Away in a Manger are embedded in our consciousness, but how do you introduce new and contemporary Christmas carols into the cultural bloodstream?John Goodall talks to the artistic director behind a musical Advent calendar
3 min |
November 29, 2017
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The King Of The Hill
Our correspondent finds that the latest incarnation of Volkswagen’s twin-cab Amarok, the poshest of pick-ups, is as good on the motorway as it is on a muddy track
2 min |
November 29, 2017
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Gove Promises To Bring Home The Bacon
BRITISH farmers are to be given extra time to adjust to post-Brexit changes in the subsidy system, Michael Gove announced at the Oxford Farming Conference last week.
3 min |
January 10, 2018
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We Bring You Glad Tidings
The smugness and often staggering insensitivity of the Christmas round-robin letter is enough to drive one to drink, but Kit Hesketh-Harvey admits that their awfulness does add to festive amusement.
4 min |
December 14 - December 21 2016
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We're Not On The Same Planet
I SEND the family WhatsApp group a spectacular photie of the first snows of winter on Ben Wyvis, anticipating a lyrical response.
3 min |
November 22, 2017
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Drinking The Wren's Silver Laughter
Entranced by a tiny bird in the woods, jay griffiths explores the bewitching effect of the avian voice in her essay birdsong.
5 min |
March 08 2017
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How To Cultivate A (Lemon's) Zest For Life
ONE sultry afternoon in 2001, I received a phone call from a friend.
3 min |
March 08 2017
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Are You game?
Are You game?
1 min |
May 30, 2018
Country Life UK
The designer's room
This Cheshire barn has been transformed with a striking industrial look
1 min |
May 30, 2018
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Joy. Discovery. Invention
Architectural historian and Dorset resident Roger White welcomes the publication of the latest revised ‘Pevsner’
4 min |
May 30, 2018
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the aliens have landed
where man travels, so persistent members of the natural world will follow, although some of them are definitely more welcome than others. here, we rate the usefulness and attractiveness of non-native and introduced or invasive species, from the delightful to the downright pests.
10 min |
january 04 2017
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the beauty that rose out of ruin
built and adapted by a series of wealthy english owners, this fantastical house and its splendid gardens have been triumphantly restored. gerald luckhurst reports
7 min |
january 18,2017
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striking the right cord
from rock musicians to novelists and mps, snug, brilliantly coloured corduroy has many fans, finds alec marsh
4 min |
january 18,2017
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The Word's The Thing
Modern dramatic interpreters shouldn’t be making a choice between prose and poetry—a play should be a marriage of the two
4 min |
March 21, 2018
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Full Steam Ahead
Full Steam Ahead
1 min |
March 21, 2018
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Go Big Or Go Home
Size and straightness matter when it comes to displaying your vegetables at the annual show, discovers Steven Desmond
6 min |
August 23, 2017
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Fat-bottomed Ants, You Make The Rocking World Go Round
Ingesting invertebrates might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but, for naturalist John Wright, ants, woodlice and grasshoppers are the lesser of two weevils
5 min |
August 23, 2017
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Bring Me My Bow Of Burning Gold
Facing a volley of arrows, falling like steel sleet at nearly 200mph, is not for the faint of heart, discovers Graeme Fife, as he relives the role of the English archers at Agincourt.
6 min |
August 23, 2017
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Ringing The Changes
Distinctly British, but rendered obselete by the march of the mobile, the red telephone box is finding new purpose, as Rob Crossan discovers.
6 min |
August 23, 2017
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Practically Perfect In Every Way
The designers of the new hybrid-drive Lexus 4x4 have produced a silent, silky vehicle that soaks up the bumps in the road like blotting paper.
3 min |
August 23, 2017
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Living National Treasure
Parchment and vellum maker
1 min |
November 8, 2017
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Fetch My Pipe And Slippers
With British-made slippers enjoying an upturn in sales, Matthew Dennison discovers why now’s the perfect time to slip into something more comfortable
5 min |
November 8, 2017
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Eastern Promise
Lewis & Wood is bringing an exotic new flavour to fabrics
2 min |
November 8, 2017
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MSPs In Hot Water Over Scottish Salmon
THE names of the salmon farms worst hit by the ‘sea-lice crisis’ have been released to Salmon & Trout Conservation Scotland (S&TC Scotland) after it emerged, earlier this year, that the weight of Scottish salmon farmed in the last three months of 2016 dropped significantly. The identities of the farms were initially withheld by Scottish ministers.
2 min |
November 15, 2017
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Ever Decreasing Circles
This week, I’ve been reading a book about wabisabi, which is not, as I initially believed, something you might order in a Japanese restaurant, but a way of living that focuses on finding beauty within the imperfections of life and accepting peacefully the natural cycle of growth and decay. I wish I’d known about it sooner, as it provides a fantastic excuse for avoiding chores: ‘sorry, I can’t mow the lawn/paint the gates/ mend the shed, as it would destroy the wabi-sabi.’
3 min |
November 15, 2017
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Out Of The Woods
At dawn on a still autumn morning, Nick Hammond joins the deer keepers at Woburn Abbey to harvest a fallow buck and enjoy a proper stalker’s breakfast
5 min |
November 15, 2017
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How To Deliver The Promised Land
The new CLA president on farming’s future and landowner responsibility
4 min |
November 15, 2017
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The Menus That Made History
From turkey with all the trimmings to chocolate-biscuit cake, the dishes served at grand occasions aren’t always as high-faluting as you might expect
5 min |