All content Archive | March 2018

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March 31st
- How to grow a pear tree: What to choose, how to look after it
- Curious Questions: Are bees really busy?
- How to make perfect roast lamb, by Gizzi Erskine
March 30th
- The best places to live near Birmingham – and what you can get for your money
- Tunnel vision: Fabulous floral arches to delight the senses
- How to make perfect roast beef with all the trimmings, by Simon Hopkinson
- In Focus: The Degas painting full of life, movement and 'orgies of colour'
March 29th
- How to carve meat: A guide from the Master Carver at Simpson's on the Strand
- Beware the Great Grey Shrike: The pretty songbird with the temperament of Vlad the Impaler
- Best places to live near Bristol – and what you could get for your money
- The brilliant kitchen designer who scoffed at Minimalism and made rooms in which to live, laugh and love
March 28th
- The best places to live near Manchester – and what you could get for your money
- How to make perfect hot cross buns
- Land Rover Discovery 2.0 SD4 HSE Luxury review: 'A veritable smorgasbord of all-terrain technology'
- Country Life March 28 2018
March 27th
- Valletta, Malta: What to see and where to go in the European City of Culture
- The best places to live near Edinburgh – and what you could get for your money
- Jason Goodwin: 'The negligees hanging on the washing lines blocked the camera’s view'
March 26th
- Nine lovely kitchen islands
- A handsome Grade II listed rectory with a beautiful Georgian façade
- My favourite painting: Richard Calvocoressi
March 25th
- 11 delightful homes, as seen in Country Life
- Sunday-supper: Welsh ‘buck’ rarebit
- Cliffe Castle, West Yorkshire: A French-inspired vision of comfort and glamour
- The Pigeon Fancier: 'I set up a deckchair in the garden and wait for them to come back. That’s the most exciting part.'
March 24th
- Curious Questions: Why does freshly-mown grass smell so good?
- Living Without Plastic | Part 7: why giving up plastic makes me want to do yoga
- How to choose a classic tweed sports coat
- Britain's beautiful green lanes: The charming remnants of leafier times, untouched by the modern world
March 23rd
- The unparalleled joy of writing with a fountain pen – and five beautiful pens to inspire you
- An exceptional period manor house in the heart of Shakespeare Country
- In Focus: The radiant, sunlit work by the artist who inspired the founder of Kettle's Yard
March 22nd
- Capri Palace Hotel review: 'A calm, discreet and stylish oasis from the outside world'
- Four literary houses for sale, as seen in Lorna Doone, Wuthering Heights and more
- 'Permission to marry your daughter, sir?' – Why you still need to ask for her father's blessing to get married
March 21st
- Living on The Lizard: Two hilltop houses on Britain's most southerly tip
- Country Life March 21 2018
March 20th
- A walk in York: Roman walls, battlements, turrets and the most glorious cathedral façade in Britain
- A beautiful old rectory with landscaped gardens by Humphry Repton
- Jason Goodwin: ‘The only sounds were the yawning of dogs, the spitting of logs in the fireplace and the occasional papery gulp of somebody turning a page’
March 19th
- The Designer's Room: Victoria Meale's vision of a kitchen that's a hub for family life
- A thatched waterside cottage for sale in one of Cornwall's most beautiful spots
- My favourite painting: The Lord Ramsbotham
- Spring is in the air – seven beautiful images from the Country Life archives
March 18th
- A trio of lovely country houses, as seen in Country Life
- Alan Titchmarsh: Finally, a chance to nurture and grow some rhododendrons
- A walk in the woods: Tranquility, beauty, and a 500,000-year-old connection to our ancestors
- Ockwells Manor, Berkshire: An insight into the splendours of grand living in 15th-century England
- The Florist: 'What I do is like good cooking – if you have beautiful ingredients, you can’t go wrong'
March 17th
- Five irresistible country houses just right for Goldilocks: Not too big and not too small
- Curious Questions: How do you make the perfect cream scone?
- Honda NSX review: A supercar that's happy on racetracks, country lanes and car parks
- Plas Cadnant, Isle of Anglesey: The place where the heart rules
- How to cook the perfect steak
March 16th
- Choosing perfect wedding presents: A guide for brides, grooms and guests
- Living with plastic | Part 6: Keeping a balanced diet of cheese, vegetables... and tequila
- The light-filled house built by the man who invented daylight savings is up for sale
- In Focus: An idyllic sunny afternoon, evoked by a leading light of the School of London
March 15th
- The wedding traditions we need to keep hold of – and the five that need consigning to history
- A magnificent house on its own headland at The Lizard, the balmiest place in Britain
- Rhubarb: The pink promise of spring
March 14th
- The greatest horse rides ever, as chronicled in a ‘unique treasury of horse and human wisdom’
- A glorious loch-side home with magical views, private beach and its own boathouse
- A chance to own a huge chunk of Exmoor, including a lovely five-bedroom farmhouse
- Country Life March 14 2018
March 13th
- Restaurant review: Coda by Eric Chavot, fine dining at the Albert Hall
- A 20-bedroom castle for sale at just £500,000 – but with a huge amount of work to do
- Seven superb pictures of the Royal Family by the Royal Photographer of the Year
- Cheltenham Festival 2018: Tips on how to make the most of it, straight from the bookie’s mouth
- Jason Goodwin: ‘We shared the Abbey with the bones of King Alfred’s brothers and Anne Boleyn’s lover’
March 12th
- Cheltenham Festival 2018: The longshot who could pay for your trip, the new stars to watch and the must-see race
- Grade II listed farmhouse with bags of potential in the heart of the Exmoor National Park
- My favourite painting: Fergal Keane
March 11th
- A dozen delightful properties, as seen in Country Life
- Ten simply magnificent photographs of Pashley Manor, Britain's greatest tulip festival
- The magical mythology of mad March hares
- The traditional Brick-Maker who supplies Hampton Court: 'It’s like kneading dough'
March 10th
- A private island in Scotland for the price of a one-bedroom flat in south London
- Capheaton Hall, Northumberland: The revival of a country house that narrowly avoided demolition
- Living without plastic | Part 5: When beauty goes green
March 9th
- The 19 best landscape photographs of Scotland taken in the last year
- The ultimate cauliflower cheese – whole roasted cauliflower with cheddar, Parmesan and broth
- Four eco-friendly homes with real style and character
- In Focus: The Canadian hermit's work that is a dystopian alternative to Monet
March 8th
- A West Country farm that's the perfect spot for City folk escaping the rat race
- How to buy a dodo or a mermaid at auction
March 7th
- Ten of the best places to visit in the UK, from top family day out to the place with the greatest loos
- A country house in Sussex that comes close to offering true self-sufficiency
- The Gavin Houghton drawing room with wit, elegance and silk wallpaper
- Country Life March 7 2018
March 6th
- Villa San Michele: The remarkable garden built on Capri’s Roman ruins
- The beautifully kept Georgian estate ripe for generating income
- Jason Goodwin: ‘Memories fade. Gavin was right: buildings outlive us all and they’re each memorials. They should not be allowed to disappear’
March 5th
- Living without plastic | Part 4: going global and fighting plastic fashion
- Will 1,000 new homes make or break the town of Woodstock?
- My favourite painting: Alex Farquharson
March 4th
- 21 beautiful properties, as seen in Country Life
- 10 terrible but terribly funny school reports of the world famous, from Einstein to Churchill
- Six glorious paintings which perfectly encapsulate the art of the conversation piece
- The mole-catcher: 'A molehill, it isn’t just a pile of earth – it’s a key to a strange little world’
March 3rd
- A sublime Georgian estate for sale that was once the residence of the Duke of Buckingham
- The Royal Academy at 250: 'It's like a wonderful Bentley that you discover unused in a barn'
- The wren: 8 things you ought to know about Britain's most common bird
- The 10 most memorable telegrams ever sent, from hydrogen bombs to boiled eggs
March 2nd
- A fantasy castle for sale near the Peak District complete with moat, dungeon and suits of armour
- Curious questions: Are you really never more than six feet away from a rat?
- In Focus: How Holman Hunt's Lady of Shallot was inspired by Van Eyck's greatest masterpiece
March 1st
- The new whisky distillery in one of North Wales's most beautiful spots
- Six of Wales's finest homes, from a Cardiff mansion to an entire headland of Anglesey (complete with working lighthouse)
- 11 magical snow days across Britain which really delivered the goods
- Britain's best wild daffodil display? The 'Golden Triangle' of Gloucestershire and Herefordshire
- Why oak-framed buildings are enjoying a renaissance