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Country Life UK
Gnome alone
Vertically challenged, bearded and rosy-cheeked, cheerful gnomes might make for unlikely cover stars, but-says Ben Lerwill-they've long graced books, album covers and even The Queen's private garden
5 min |
May 17, 2023
Country Life UK
When I am feeling blue
With a cobalt cap, white cheeks and tiny wings, the blue tit might be a picture of songbird sweetness, but its morals leave much to be desired, says Stephen Moss
5 min |
May 17, 2023
Country Life UK
Here's looking at you, kid
What pygmy goats lack in size they more than make up for in personality, says Julie Harding, who meets the owners who have fallen for their charms
7 min |
May 17, 2023
Country Life UK
Baronial dreams
Castle Drogo, Devon, part I A property of the National Trust In the first of two articles, Clive Aslet reveals how a fascination with ancestry encouraged a wealthy Edwardian businessman to enlist the help of Sir Edwin Lutyens to build a new castle
8 min |
May 17, 2023
Country Life UK
Let's celebrate gardening
WHAT is the point of the Chelsea Flower Show? Is it a highlight of the social calendar and the start of the Season?
3 min |
May 17, 2023
Country Life UK
Delightful delphiniums
We may not all be able to grow show quality delphiniums, but even in ordinary gardens these statuesque plants still turn heads, says John Hoyland
4 min |
May 17, 2023
Country Life UK
Time to sit and stare
The West Sussex home of Harriet Anstruther and Henry Bourne Non Morris discovers a garden that has been brilliantly designed to make you want to stop and simply enjoy its loveliness
4 min |
May 17, 2023
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The impossible made possible
Kathryn Bradley-Hole anticipates a confident return to form at Chelsea, with mouth-watering designs for productive gardens, aromatic Mediterranean planting and even a reinterpretation of the rock garden
4 min |
May 17, 2023
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The stork cometh
A visiting stork causes great excitement, but no babies, and a cold spring holds the farm back
3 min |
May 17, 2023
Country Life UK
My favourite painting Lady Caroline Percy
Ancient Rome: Agrippina Landing with the Ashes of Germanicus by Turner
1 min |
May 17, 2023
Country Life UK
If music be the food of love
The summer opera season of picnics and Puccini is upon us. Henrietta Bredin advises how best to enjoy this year’s offerings
5 min |
May 10, 2023
Country Life UK
When it all goes pear-shaped
Not to be confused with cider, the art of perry-making is more than a craft–it’s an English passion. Ben Lerwill meets some of our best producers of fermented pear juice
6 min |
May 10, 2023
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I vow to thee, my 'very stinking herb'
Having trodden the fine line between love and hate, Tom Parker Bowles finds that what once tasted vile is now sweetly seductive: yes, he has fallen in lust with coriander
3 min |
May 10, 2023
Country Life UK
Slowly does it
Oxleaze Farm, near Lechlade, Gloucestershire The home of Mr and Mrs Charles Mann | The making of this Cotswold garden has taken place bit by bit, as time and circumstances have allowed, and the results are immensely satisfying, says Kendra Wilson
5 min |
May 10, 2023
Country Life UK
Turning fantasy into reality
What do hotels have to teach us about designing a bedroom?
3 min |
May 10, 2023
Country Life UK
Putting the house in order
Having vowed to ‘commit more fishing’ this year, our correspondent plunges into his gallimaufry of flies and collection of good-luck charms in an attempt to restore a semblance of order to his tackle room
4 min |
May 10, 2023
Country Life UK
Quintessential Cotswolds
The market in this delightful corner of England is as robust as ever
7 min |
May 10, 2023
Country Life UK
Get set
From Daylesford Organic to the Soho Farmhouse, western England’s AONB still seems like the place to be
3 min |
May 10, 2023
Country Life UK
For whom the fairy bells toll
Sometimes unfairly dismissed as ugly, edible wood sorrel, once known as fairy bells, is not only blessed with pretty white flowers, it’s also capable of predicting rain, says John Wright
5 min |
May 10, 2023
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The world's my oyster
On the 150th anniversary of the death of British explorer David Livingstone, Ben Lerwill asks why intrepid British men and women have long been–and still are–fond of venturing to the farthest corners of the globe
7 min |
May 10, 2023
Country Life UK
Tell me when the whistle blows
As Elton John’s Rocket Records celebrates its 50th anniversary, Steve Sutherland remembers the very boozy launch party, held in the unlikely, but charming Cotswolds setting of Moreton-in-Marsh
5 min |
May 10, 2023
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A nursery of inventions
7, Park Street, Cirencester, Gloucestershire | A Cotswold townhouse echoes the remarkable career of its restorer and creator, Rory Young. Alan Powers reflects on his influence and enthusiasms as embodied here
8 min |
May 10, 2023
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'What makes me happy is a project'
The nonagenarian writer on a brush with the Almighty and Harold Pinter as critic
4 min |
May 10, 2023
Country Life UK
All's wool that ends wool
From warm cloaks for the Roman army to many handsome churches, much of England’s might and wealth once rested on the back of the Cotswold sheep’s ‘golden fleece’, says Charles Harris
7 min |
May 10, 2023
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My heart is in the Highlands
Edwin Landseer’s visit to the Duchess of Bedford’s retreat in Badenoch sparked a passion for the Highlands that led to his best work and created a romantic vision of Scotland, finds Mary Miers
6 min |
May 03, 2023
Country Life UK
Unexpected baggage
THE definition of a guilt trip, courtesy of that great knower-of-all-things, Mr Google, is intentionally to manipulate another person to feel guilty about something they may (or may not) have done. But what about the guilt trip that is 100% your own fault and involves overseas travel?
2 min |
May 03, 2023
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Best of British
From Scotland to Cornwall, Britain’s bounds are bursting with new hotel openings. Friends of COUNTRY LIFE wax lyrical about some of their favourites
4 min |
May 03, 2023
Country Life UK
Ready when you are
WE gardeners are used to taking every measure available to us when sowing seeds. We study the back of seed packets, listen to the weather forecast, check a phone app, stare at the sky; tea leaves may even be read in the search for optimal sowing.
3 min |
May 03, 2023
Country Life UK
Who will wear the Badminton crown?
Badminton Horse Trials, which takes place on the weekend of the coronation, has long been associated with the Royal Family. Kate Green previews this year’s special event
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May 03, 2023
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Conquering the goddess of the sky
Seventy years ago, on the eve of the Queen’s coronation, Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Everest. Octavia Pollock considers the legacy of their achievement and what it meant for British mountaineering
4 min |