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Country Life UK
Tales of the unexpected
A thriving farm and the site of a Victorian double murder lead the market this week
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October 11, 2023
Country Life UK
Revolution or evolution?
The renewed popularity of cottages is spawning dramatically different approaches
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October 11, 2023
Country Life UK
The secret of the super cottage
There's no reason why a small house shouldn't feel like a big one
5 min |
October 11, 2023
Country Life UK
Street life
This autumn, a host of new shops has opened its doors on London's Pimlico Road, heralding a fresh chapter in the history of this inspiring district, finds Amelia Thorpe
2 min |
October 11, 2023
Country Life UK
Nine centuries of service
This year, two connected institutions in the heart of London celebrate their 900th anniversary. In the second of two articles, John Goodall looks at their foundation story
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October 11, 2023
Country Life UK
Pull a rabbit out of the hat
Whether seasoned with thyme and cider baked into a juicy pie or grilled over coals until perfectly crispy, rabbit makes for some magnificent dishes. It's madness that we no longer enjoy it as we once did, laments Tom Parker Bowles
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October 11, 2023
Country Life UK
Doing it by the book
Our desire to buy online may have blighted many high streets, but, happily, plenty of independent bookshops are still thriving against the odds. Catriona Gray picks seven of her favourite stores off the shelf
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October 11, 2023
Country Life UK
Last call for the corncrake
Surprisingly small and intensely secretive, the increasingly rare corncrake is in serious danger of disappearing from our shores altogether. But not, discovers Vicky Liddell, if a new conservation plan has anything to do with it
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October 11, 2023
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Conkering heroes
Few games rival conkers for sheer excitement. Simon Lester ponders the merits of round-topped nuts versus flat-sided cheesers and exposes the nefarious tricks some use to win at all costs
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October 11, 2023
Country Life UK
Is this the best year ever for berries?
The sunny, yet wet summer might have been a dampener at the time, but the resulting autumnal berry haul is a feast for mice and men
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October 11, 2023
Country Life UK
A light touch
Nels Crosthwaite Eyre's Hampshire house demonstrates her innate ability to create smart, but relaxed interiors that reflect the tastes and needs of a new generation
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October 11, 2023
Country Life UK
Sod's Law
I AM currently consumed by the inequity of Sod’s Law, the annoying precept that when you least want things to go wrong, they invariably do.
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October 04, 2023
Country Life UK
Underneath the Arctic sky
A veteran minesweeper is enjoying a new lease of life as a charter boat touring majestic Norwegian islands. Hugh Francis Anderson sails away on HMS Gåssten
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October 04, 2023
Country Life UK
Crop values
AS familiar as apples may be, most of us have only tasted a minuscule sliver of the 7,000-plus varieties available. If you grow your own, you open the door to a world of flavour and texture far superior to those in the shops.
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October 04, 2023
Country Life UK
After Christo
The swashbuckling dahlias still thrill, but Mary Keen, a lifelong friend of Great Dixter, is equally impressed with how the garden has evolved in the care of Fergus Garrett
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October 04, 2023
Country Life UK
Flights of urban fancy
To mark the upcoming 75th anniversary of the publication of Richard Fitter's seminal book London's Birds, Jack Watkins takes a look at the changing face of the capital's avian population
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October 04, 2023
Country Life UK
The man who built COUNTRY LIFE
Edwin Lutyens gave London the Cenotaph, COUNTRY LIFE its offices and generations of children Nana, the Darlings’ dog in Peter Pan. Few men have made a greater mark on pre-war Britain than the architect who strode like a stork, reveals Carla Passino
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October 04, 2023
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Going for a Burton
THE Hampstead home of actor Richard Burton, in which he lived when he first met Elizabeth Taylor, is up for sale.
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October 04, 2023
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Fresh fields and pastures new
The racing world not only develops first-class runners, but also first-class property
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October 04, 2023
Country Life UK
A seafarer's choice?
The Velvet Room at Ditchley Park, Oxfordshire, is decorated with a highly unusual silk. Annabel Westman offers a new interpretation of its imagery and purchase
6 min |
October 04, 2023
Country Life UK
Written in stone
From epitaphs to large-scale monuments, letter carvers can elevate even the most straightforward inscription to an elaborate work of art
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October 04, 2023
Country Life UK
On gossamer threads
Wreathing the land like an ethereal veil, mist turns valleys into an opal sea, coats moss with an emerald glow and wraps the tingle of the skylark into a wispy enigma. John Lewis-Stempel revels in its silvery beauty
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October 04, 2023
Country Life UK
Sailing with the silver darlings
Sailing and fishing from a 30-ton boat with no engine, entirely subject to the whim of wind and tide, is no mean feat, says Joe Gibbs, as he joins the crew aboard St Vincent, a restored early 20th-century 'Zulu' herring drifter
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October 04, 2023
Country Life UK
Season of mists and mellow artfulness
Vincent van Gogh painted it as olive trees buffeted by the wind, Claude Monet as frothing orange leaves, David Hockney as a triumph of woodland colours. Michael Prodger explores how autumn's many beauties have long inspired artists
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October 04, 2023
Country Life UK
A living fossil
This year, two connected institutions in the heart of London celebrate their 900th anniversary. In the first of two articles, John Goodall looks at their foundation story
8 min |
October 04, 2023
Country Life UK
A sporting canvas
WITH two rangy bay horses’ conker-brown coats glistening in the dawn sunshine, warm breath emanating from their nostrils into the cold air like puffs of smoke and mist wreathing the parkland behind, two elegant tweed-jacketed and peak-capped members of hunt staff escort a pack of hounds on their morning exercise…
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October 04, 2023
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Green light for urban planting
THE Prime Minister should declare a national mission to ‘regreen’ Britain’s towns and cities, according to a think tank called Create Streets.
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October 04, 2023
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Following the North star
Victorian artist Marianne North braved jungle rapids, forests and mountains to capture the blowsy beauty of tropical plants on canvas. Carla Passino paints the life of a woman who defied conventions to forge her own path
7 min |
September 27, 2023
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The nurseryman's nursery
Tilly Ware visits Marchants Hardy Plants in East Sussex, one of the most beautifully designed and horticulturally significant nurseries in the country
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September 27, 2023
Country Life UK
Private passions
Next week's sale of Robert Kime's personal collection offers a rare insight into a brilliant, but enigmatic designer
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