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Country Life UK
Natural bounty
With an expanse of sandy beaches, 125 miles of lock-free Broads waterways, sea colonies and nature reserves, there's plenty of Nature to enjoy in Norfolk. Arabella Youens picks some charming houses on the market
2 min |
May 28, 2025
Country Life UK
The gift of second sight
Tubby little bundles of joy, guide-dog puppies may be irresistibly sweet, but they've been expertly engineered to perform life-changing duties
5 min |
May 28, 2025
Country Life UK
As trusty as a brown trout
In the first of a new series celebrating our best-loved piscine species, COUNTRY LIFE’s fishing correspondent salutes the elegant and reputedly magical Salmo trutta
3 min |
May 28, 2025
Country Life UK
East is east
Camels and souks, Jerusalem and Petra are once again capturing people’s imagination, as a crop of sales earlier in the spring demonstrates
3 min |
May 28, 2025
Country Life UK
Put a knot in it
It no longer matters if you're not a surgeon or a comedian: after the dark days of endless leisurewear, bow ties are back
5 min |
May 28, 2025
Country Life UK
From hero to zero
Ancient India gave the world its number system, anticipated Galileo's heliocentric theory by a millennium and spread its culture from Egypt to Siberia—only to be almost entirely forgotten. It's past time to restore it to its rightful place in history
8 min |
May 28, 2025
Country Life UK
Eton mess strawberry blondies
Food Article
1 min |
May 28, 2025
Country Life UK
Going flat out
Gun Hill Farm, near Burnham Overy Staithe, Norfolk A dramatic, yet difficult site has been boldly redrawn using plants that blend into the distinctive East Anglian landscape
4 min |
May 28, 2025
Country Life UK
The beauty’s in the detail
When the interior designer Isabella Worsley conceived Country LIFE’s ‘outdoor drawing room’ at last week’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show, she worked with English stone specialist Artorius Faber to create bespoke architectural features, including windows, a chimneypiece, a water trough and floor from stone sourced from its own quarry in Dorset
2 min |
May 28, 2025
Country Life UK
A village of rare beauty
The historic buildings of a Transylvanian settlement have been restored and preserved with the help of several foundations and backed by The King’s personal enthusiasm. Jeremy Musson reports on this remarkable place
8 min |
May 28, 2025
Country Life UK
We're going on a stag hunt
The stag beetle’s intimidating appearance belies its vulnerability, says Claire Saul, as she discovers what we can do to help them survive
4 min |
May 28, 2025
Country Life UK
Britain at its blooming best
WHAT a welcome recovery: this year's Chelsea Flower Show was really back on form.
2 min |
May 28, 2025
Country Life UK
So goes the merrie month of May
With returning swifts screaming across the rooftop and golden buttercup pollen gilding his Wellingtons as he strides across the cow meadow, John Lewis- Stempel marvels at the many pleasures of May
4 min |
May 28, 2025
Country Life UK
The first lady of the Herdwicks
When she died, Potter was set to be the first female president of the Herdwick Sheep Breeders Association; she was a great supporter and breeder of the local fell sheep-during the 1930s, her ewes dominated the prizes at shows-which she believed to be integral to the local, traditional farming practices. She might perhaps be dismayed at the de-stocking of livestock that has since taken place on parts of the uplands
1 min |
May 28, 2025
Country Life UK
Watercress and pistachio chimichurri spatchcock chicken
Kitchen garden cook Watercress
1 min |
May 21, 2025
Country Life UK
The legacy
THE writer Richard Doddridge (R. D.) Blackmore (1825-1900) was, in his time, a leading figure in the rise of the English novel during the Victorian age, yet only his best-known book, Lorna Doone (1869), endures and is probably rarely studied to the same degree as those of his friends Thomas Hardy and Rudyard Kipling.
1 min |
May 21, 2025
Country Life UK
All you need is love
Drawings, prints and the ‘weirdly shaped’ and ‘unbelievably brave’ paintings from David Hockney’s early years fill an exhibition conceived by and for people who adore his work
6 min |
May 21, 2025
Country Life UK
How to find common ground
I HAVE often heard it said that people don’t enjoy their own wedding. The stress, the consensus seems to be, is so overwhelming that the day passes in a blur of Champagne and anxiety.
2 min |
May 21, 2025
Country Life UK
On with the show
The garden at Stavordale Priory, Somerset The home of Michael Le Poer Trench and Sir Cameron Mackintosh - The thoughtful expansion of the existing garden over the past 30 years has added romance and drama to this historic monastic garden, finds Caroline Donald
5 min |
May 21, 2025
Country Life UK
It's Sondheim, but not as we know him
Sondheim’s final musical, inspired by Surrealism, has a ‘mesmerising oddity’ unlike any other, but is nonetheless compelling, and a Chekhov-inspired play is as riveting as an Ibsen-based one is lacking in depth
4 min |
May 21, 2025
Country Life UK
Will no one rid me of this turbulent weed?
Praised in poetry, cultivated by Duchesses and an important life force for insects, could it be that ragwort is unfairly maligned, asks Bethany Stone
4 min |
May 21, 2025
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Look who's back
It's no longer necessary to venture to tropical waters in order to catch a monster tuna, says Jonathan Young, as he attempts to land a big-game fish in Falmouth Bay
6 min |
May 21, 2025
Country Life UK
To a tea
Tregothnan is famously the home of the UK's first tea gardens, but as Mark Hedges discovers, Camellia sinensis isn't the only thing that flourishes in this charming corner of Cornwall
2 min |
May 21, 2025
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One puffin, two puffins...
ON the Farne Islands, 1½ miles off the Northumberland coast, this year's puffin count is under way as the National Trust marks its 100th year of caring for the seabird-heavy North Sea archipelago— internationally recognised as a vital sanctuary for some 200,000 seabirds.
1 min |
May 21, 2025
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A London park under the threat of eclipse
heultur grusader
2 min |
May 21, 2025
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The write stuff
From picturesque settings to Forsyte Saga inspiration, the West Country has something for everyone
7 min |
May 21, 2025
Country Life UK
Making waves
You can't go wrong with a waterside property in the West Country
2 min |
May 21, 2025
Country Life UK
Back off, snails
On the snail trail: protecting the leaves of hostas from marauding molluscs is a never-ending task
3 min |
May 21, 2025
Country Life UK
Aslan is on the move
'SOME day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again,' wrote C. S. Lewis—or perhaps you never stopped.
1 min |
May 21, 2025
Country Life UK
A compelling yarn
Designed to protect the wearer from wind, rain, salt spray and sun, chunky gansey jumpers retain a special place in fishermen's hearts, finds Jane Wheatley
3 min |