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Country Life UK
In it to win it
Foregoing chocolate, running every day and riding out multiple lots before starting her day job as Chief Sub-Editor of COUNTRY LIFE mean that Octavia Pollock is ready to race to victory in next week’s Magnolia Cup at Glorious Goodwood
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July 21, 2021
Country Life UK
A real pleasure
In the hands of English Heritage, the care and restoration of the striking mid-19th-century garden of Brodsworth Hall, South Yorkshire, is producing truly impressive results, writes Tiffany Daneff
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July 21, 2021
Country Life UK
Of Bankruptcy And Birds
The fam-ily motto of the Marquess of Aberdeen is fortuna sequatur, or ‘let fortune follow’. However, reading Simon Welfare’s tale of the 1st Marquess’s reversal of his heraldic exhortation, it is difficult not to believe a more appropriate motto would have been ‘no good deed is left unpunished’.
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July 14, 2021
Country Life UK
The soothing island
From forest bathing to beach moonwalks, Jersey is the perfect place to find solace in Nature, says Antonia Windsor
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July 14, 2021
Country Life UK
To a skylark
Hailed by Shelley as a ‘blithe spirit’ and evocatively celebrated in one of our most revered pieces of music, this brave little bird needs more farming friends, finds Ian Morton
8 min |
July 14, 2021
Country Life UK
‘Essentially a working terrier'
Comedic and affectionate with endless energy, it’s not hard to see how Border terriers steal hearts, be it Lorraine Kelly’s or Sir Andy Murray’s –but beware the prey drive, warns Katy Birchall
7 min |
July 14, 2021
Country Life UK
Strawberry fields forever
Plump, buxom, sweet, juicy and with curves in all the right places, the strawberry is the very quintessence of an English summer for Tom Parker Bowles
4 min |
July 14, 2021
Country Life UK
Holding out for a hero
The battle for Trafalgar Park raged for a century and the Wiltshire estate now comes to the market after a victorious restoration
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July 14, 2021
Country Life UK
Onto the court
Winner of a team gold medal at the Commonwealth Games, Jersey-raised netball superstar Serena Guthrie talks to Arabella Youens about her island childhood
3 min |
July 14, 2021
Country Life UK
An island called home
Holly Kirkwood unearths some of the best properties for sale in Jersey
3 min |
July 14, 2021
Country Life UK
Around Jersey in eight landmarks
Penny Byrne explores the island’s history through some of its most fascinating monuments
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July 14, 2021
Country Life UK
A Greek revival
Taitlands, Stainforth, North Yorkshire Restored by Emma and Martin Sharp An exemplary restoration project has created a modern family home from a fine neo-Grecian country house that has been in institutional use since the 1940s. John Martin Robinson admires the result
7 min |
July 14, 2021
Country Life UK
WALK THE LONDON LINE
Our capital city is more inviting for walkers than you might expect, with meadows, towpaths, unexpected sculpture and great houses to draw the eye. Octavia Pollock sets off to explore
5 min |
July 07, 2021
Country Life UK
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
I DON’T know what to write to you, so I shall tell you a story about four little rabbits, whose names were Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter,’ wrote Beatrix Potter in 1893, in a letter to a little boy, the five-year-old son of her former governess, who was suffering from scarlet fever. A decade later, these lines, only slightly adjusted, formed the opening to what has become one of the bestselling, most fondly remembered books in children’s literature.
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July 07, 2021
Country Life UK
My favourite painting Lorna May Wadsworth
Cornelis van der Geest by Sir Anthony van Dyck
2 min |
July 07, 2021
Country Life UK
‘Keep the momentum going'
The new Historic Houses president on leaky roofs, lobbying Government and VAT
5 min |
July 07, 2021
Country Life UK
Interiors The designer's room
The new kitchen of Lisa Mehydene’s Cotswold barn was deliberately designed to appear old
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July 07, 2021
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Far from brassed off
Those who play in a Northern brass band have a lung capacity similar to that of an Olympic athlete and, as Rebecca Oliver discovers, they’re not likely to run out of puff any time soon
5 min |
July 07, 2021
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Say hello, wave goodbye
Whether constructive or destructive, waves–even as high as four double-decker buses–claw at our shores in a frenzy of energy, observes Annemarie Munro
6 min |
July 07, 2021
Country Life UK
Daisy rides again
Once an endangered species, yet still gracing beaches up and down the land, the seaside donkey remains the epitome of an English summer, believes Vicky Liddell
6 min |
July 07, 2021
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I've been a goggle eyed plover for many's the year
With a sinister yellow gaze and legs ‘swoln like those of a gouty man’, the prehistoric-looking stone curlew is nonetheless an endearing little fellow, finds Jack Watkins
4 min |
July 07, 2021
Country Life UK
Architecture-on-Sea
What is it that makes the buildings of the seaside so distinct? Kathryn Ferry looks at the vibrant architecture of our coastal towns and the way our perception of it has been shaped by early-20th-century appreciation
8 min |
July 07, 2021
Country Life UK
Slobber, puddle, chewing and trouble
Inspired by COUNTRY LIFE’s search for Britain’s naughtiest dog, illustrator John Holder tells Katy Birchall why he’s dedicated a delightful new book to mischievous mutts
4 min |
June 30, 2021
Country Life UK
Where the air is clear
Beautiful northern properties to get you looking up
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June 30, 2021
Country Life UK
Ship shape and Chelsea fashion
Bluebird of Chelsea is no ordinary motor yacht. Built for record-breaker Sir Malcolm Campbell and requisitioned for Dunkirk, her story is one of survival against the odds. In her 90th year, her interiors have been given a new lease of life, finds Arabella Youens
5 min |
June 30, 2021
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St Paul's Cathedral
Britain’s greatest masterpieces
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June 30, 2021
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The cult of the continuation car
Time travel is afoot in England’s storied car factories, which are revisiting their greatest hits. But are these remakes the real deal, asks Adam Hay-Nicholls
6 min |
June 30, 2021
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Northern idylls
Three magnificent properties prove it’s far from grim up North
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June 30, 2021
Country Life UK
The goat with a GSOH
We’re not kidding–the delightful and versatile English goat is making a deserved comeback, as Julie Harding learns from devotees
6 min |
June 30, 2021
Country Life UK
Rain, rain, please don't go away
Unlike George II, who was not a fan of the wet British summer, John Lewis-Stempel is delighted by an early-June morning deluge on the lush lawn
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