All content Archive | September 2019

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September 30th
- A moorland splashed with heather makes our hearts leap — so why don't we grow it any more?
- Rudi the otter: 'we had to convince Parliament to focus on clean water and the easiest way to do that was with a baby otter'
- A wisteria-clad country house that inspired PG Wodehouse, with orchard and ponds aplenty
- Country Life Today: Prince Harry's powerful words on saving the world - 'We must overcome greed, apathy and selfishness'
- My Favourite Painting: Piet Oudolf
September 29th
- From abbot to artist: The remarkable journey of Abbots Grange, Worcestershire
September 28th
- Heaven for commuters? A centuries-old house in Surrey with endless charm, a swimming pool and manege
- Jason Goodwin: Is the answer to finding faith really as simple as "fake it 'til you make it"?
- Istanbul, Turkey: Full of eastern promise, perfect for a weekend mini break
- Hydrangeas: Varied, colourful and lovingly tended to by the wizard of White House Farm
September 27th
- Time to ditch Prosecco? Why Cava is 'deeper, more complex and far more interesting'
- Why Beckhithe, a Norfolk hamlet, is fighting to keep its postal address (and its identity)
- How to transform the interiors of a derelict barn into a beautiful holiday let
- 'Extinct' moth returns to Britain after forty years
- A beautiful house that comes with an award-winning wine estate which supplies Raymond Blanc
- Watch out for lungworm, the deadly parasite that threatens dogs across the UK
- Country Life Today: the Scottish farmer who wants to create the first official mobile blackspot
- In Focus: An exhibition that reveals the versatility of art made with scissors
September 26th
- What's the perfect time to teach your children how to fish?
- Bees in your home? A new campaign helps people how to deal with a swarm without harming pollinators
- The Utterly Inessential Shopping List: A pet candle with a secret, an American culinary road-trip and the inevitable waterproof
- First-edition Harry Potter sells for £27,500
- A castle in the Cotswolds that could pass as a backdrop from Downton Abbey
- More than 100,000 pink-footed geese may soon land in Scotland
- Country Life Today: how the humble elderflower became big business
- Delicious and simple: Chicken and ciabatta tray bake
September 25th
- Invasive aliens: Six of the most destructive plants and animals that have made Britain their home
- A.N. Wilson's 'definitive biography' of Prince Albert, balanced, nuanced and challenging
- A beautiful home has come up for sale in 'one of the most sought-after villages in the Cotswolds'
- Country Life Today: The £5 million masterpiece that hung for years on the wall of an elderly lady's kitchen
- Country Life 25 September 2019
September 24th
- 'Some communities may be cut off': Heavy rain causes havoc across England
- 'Nothing short of remarkable': Humpback whales return to Irish coast 20 years after first sighting
- Château de Lassay: The castle of Bluebeard’s widow
- Investing in the future: The parallels between choosing a school and managing your investments
- Sheepdogs are being targeted by rural thieves – here's how you can help protect them
- An impossibly beautiful — and enormous — house in the Cotswolds whose former use is hard to believe
- Country Life Today: How an oak tree can reveal 800 years of environmental history
- Jason Goodwin: 'The flock widened and contracted, filling the whole sky with motion: expansive, pure theatre'
September 23rd
- Toyota RAV4 review: The 4x4 that dreamed of being a GTI, all grown up and 25 years old
- A superb post-war home so brilliantly designed in the Georgian style that even the great Pevsner was fooled
- Country Life Today: Why every child in Britain should have a chance to camp under the stars in our wonderful countryside
- My Favourite Painting: Roger Weatherby
September 22nd
- 8 simply magnificent properties for sale, as seen in Country Life
- Alan Titchmarsh: The ultimate flower for the lazy gardener
- Val McDermid's Scotland: 'It was so unexpected I wondered if I was hallucinating it. But a quick glance at Alan’s face told me he could see it too'
- The ancient windmill in Sussex that became a stunning contemporary home
September 21st
- A gorgeous Cotswolds home that promises all things to all buyers — even a beautifully-secluded outdoor pool
- Curious Questions: Can horses really heal humans?
- Island hopping in Sweden: 'Pine forests, cobalt rivers and toy-town villages of scarlet wooden cottages'
- Celebrating 100 years of the Forestry Commission — and 10 of the finest walks on the land they manage
September 20th
- Barbaresco, the wine which makes you 'more and more fascinated by its nuances' as you persevere
- The winners of Shed of the Year have been announced, featuring The Lord of the Rings, the space race — and a shed on the back of a lorry
- A bathroom in an 18th-century farmhouse where practicality meets elegance
- Climate strike: Concerned citizens around the world take to the streets to demand a step-change
- Country Life Today: Downton Abbey opens its doors to paying guests... for one night only
- In Focus: Williams Blake's ill-fated solo exhibition which left him earning a living as a copy-engraver while his art went unnoticed
September 19th
- The Devil’s Horsemen: The stallion who's starred in Game of Thrones, Wonder Woman and The Crown
- Wanted: Trigger-happy water-pistol owners willing to soak a Scottish national treasure created by Charles Rennie Mackintosh
- The Utterly Inessential Autumn Shopping List: Cheese subscriptions, cosy blankets and everything else you need in the run up to winter
- Countryside dwellers are victims of 'digital divide', warn MPs — and it must be fixed before they become 'second-class citizens'
- Railway enthusiasts will want to choo-choo-choose this charming property
- These great Victorian buildings at risk need your help
- Country Life Today: Banksy's Parliamentary masterpiece comes up for auction at what seems the perfect moment
- How to make Normandy chicken that's a perfect dinner as autumn nights draw in
September 18th
- New footage supports theory Loch Ness Monster is actually an eel
- Glen of Imaal terriers: Wilful, adorable and sadly extremely vulnerable
- How to make your bathroom feel luxurious
- 'A match for anywhere in the world': Award-winning Blue Planet cameraman champions Scotland's stunning coast
- Eight striking properties in London to fit every budget, from £250,000 to £60 million
- Soothing sounds of woodland proven to be more relaxing than meditation apps or silence
- Country Life Today: Good news for the urban hedgehog and how you can help the species
September 17th
- Country Life 18 September 2019
- Not lovin' it: Rutland residents resist McDonald's proposal
- When small is beautiful: 10 types of cottage you’ll find in Britain
- Dog who refuses to walk another step triggers six-man mountain rescue in Lake District
- How modern-day Downton Abbeys are still running, with every comfort going except for dear Carson
- Country Life Today: Prepare for four heat waves a year and twice as many flash floods, warns MET Office
- Jason Goodwin: How Jason's new and improved, curry-based hospital menu will save the NHS millions
September 16th
- 1940s glamour, Goodwood's youngest racer and a psychelic Rolls-Royce: The best pictures from a sun-kissed weekend at the Goodwood Revival
- The ancient collection of the Rothschilds, improved by technology and open to the public
- A beautifully-restored Queen Anne House with some very modern surprises lurking within
- Inside Highclere Castle: The true story of the ‘real-life’ Downton Abbey
- My Favourite Painting: Julian Fellowes
- 21 wonderfully pretty homes, as seen in Country Life
- Country Life Today: Thieves who stole Blenheim Palace's golden loo might be 'the real artists', suggests Cattelan
September 15th
- How to grow chillies in Britain: What to plant, where to plant them and how to make them grow
- The extraordinary design festivals which spread ideas, shape our culture and leave legacies that last for centuries
September 14th
- A large, lovingly-restored country home with two ponds, an indoor pool and a wonderful story
- Curious Questions: Why do we talk about the '$64,000 question' — even in a country where we don't use dollars?
- St Regis Mauritius: A tropical idyll where the biggest challenge is deciding how to relax next
- Country Life's verdict on the Downton Abbey film: Patchy plots and sickly schmaltz, but 'a blissful two hours of escapism'
September 13th
- Why you should be drinking Rioja, the Spanish answer to Bordeaux
- The most jaw-dropping vegetables from the Harrogate Autumn Flower Show Giant Vegetable competition
- The unbeatable cosiness of the Eiderdown – stylish, warm and full of vintage charm
- Country Life Today: Half a million painted lady butterflies take to the air in 'once-in-a-decade' emergence
- Prehistoric Britons loved eating cheese 6,000 years ago, according to new finds
- In Focus: The wartime masterpieces of Alfred Munnings
September 12th
- Walking the 79-mile Dales Way: 'The Wharfe is full and raging; we’re getting worried messages as people hear about the mayhem'
- 'You’re alive, make the most of it': The 77-year-old British woman who has just become the oldest person to sail around the world
- The Utterly Inessential Gardener's Shopping List: A cordless jet wash blaster, effort-free lawnmowers and staying one step ahead of the leaves
- John Nash's Welsh masterpiece for sale, complete with a music room which must be seen to be believed
- Lack of ponds a 'national crisis' — but a new plan hopes to bring ancient seeds back to life
- Country Life Today: Time to end the 'catastrophe of the monocultural housing estate', urges Prince's Foundation
- How to make irresistible apple fritters with a cinnamon twist
September 11th
- Discover the beauty of bespoke with Thomas Sanderson’s shutters, blinds and curtains
- #BackBritishFarming day: Eager sheepdogs, bouncing calves and tractor FaceTime
- How Catchpole & Rye take bathroom inspiration from classic Victorian plumbing
- The gardeners' salvation? Jackdaw develops taste for the vicious Box Moth caterpillar
- A beautiful Norfolk town house with a library by John Simpson, right opposite King's Lynn Minster
- Country Life Today: A £1.45 trillion investment could prepare the world for climate change
- Country Life 11 September 2019
September 10th
- A long weekend at Forsthofalm, the Alpine hotel made entirely from timber
- Moss: The 350-million-year-old plants that turn the unsightly 'into things radiant of beauty'
- British farmers lay out detailed plans to be carbon neutral a full 10 years before the government's deadline
- A sympathetically updated country retreat, with sunken gardens, equestrian facilities and a Cheval Liberté barn
- New Land Rover Defender revealed at Frankfurt Motor Show
- Country Life Today: Your favourite tree needs your vote
- Jason Goodwin: Mysterious beach bones, lively ceilidhs and the other wonders of holidaying in the Western Isles
September 9th
- Norfolk gets three miles of new beaches in a groundbreaking sandscaping project
- Fancy having a railway of your own? The Hayling Seaside Railway can be yours for £60,000
- Why less is definitely more when reinventing estate buildings
- Laurie Lee's childhood home, the house that inspired 'Cider with Rosie', is up for sale
- Aquatic plants: Six perfect choices for those wishing to dip their toes into the world of watery flora
- Country Life Today: The fiery reason the sky is turning purple at sunset
- My Favourite Painting: Louise Moelwyn-Hughes
September 8th
- Nine wonderful homes from £350,000 to £11 million, as seen in Country Life
- Deadheading? Don't worry about it too much, or you'll miss out on some fine surprises
- Ardgowan House: An 'almost miraculous' survival with a fascinating history
September 7th
- An imposing, unlisted house in West Sussex with stables which are 'every young rider’s dream'
- Curious questions: Why do town criers shout 'Oyez, oyez, oyez'?
- Country Life's ten favourite cities in the world — can you pick a favourite?
- A legacy garden run by the same family since the 1300s, at the heart of a 2,000-acre Ayrshire estate
September 6th
- The mystery of why more and more whales and dolphins are being stranded on Britain's beaches
- The best pubs in Britain for 2020 have been named — and the top two are within a few minutes of each other
- How to transform a shepherd's hut into the perfect, country guest house
- A pretty equestrian property in Surrey, with stables fit for equine royalty
- Loch Ness Monster isn't a dinosaur, say scientists — but it might it be a giant eel
- Country Life Today: Why England's heather is under threat
- In Focus: The wild visions of Scotland which made it 'a playground for the rich' as the native Gaels faced typhoid, famine and eviction
September 5th
- How a pony in the Highlands always beats a quad bike: 'Unlike a vehicle, ponies will avoid bogs that swallow the unwary'
- Invasive Asian hornets that kill up to 50 bees a day spotted across England
- Young film-makers set out to solve the mystery of Big Cats roaming Southern England
- A peerless farm in Buckinghamshire 'which offers the best of everything for man and beast'
- Country Life Today: Lorry accident covers M6 in 32,000 litres of gin
- A dessert that's part crumble, part cake: Melanie Johnson's plum and ricotta crumble cake
September 4th
- PETA told off by advertising watchdog for claiming that 'wool is just as cruel as fur'
- The A–Z of Burghley: All you need to know for this weekend's Horse Trials
- Carnivorous plant which devours its prey via sticky tentacles is reintroduced to England
- 11 of the finest afternoon teas around Britain, from the Ritz to the Cornish hotel that inspired Wind in the Willows
- If you go down to the woods... You're sure of a fantastic autumn
- 'The most successful are adaptable to change': Meet the coastal residents at risk of losing their homes
- Country Life Today: Brexit 'turbo-charges' zoo breeding, terrifying barn owls and a royal takeaway
- Country Life 4 September 2019
September 3rd
- Fishing in Iceland: The joy of tussling with 20lb salmon in the wake of David Beckham
- Urban rooster bringing a touch of the country to South London falls 'fowl' of neighbours
- 'We have been systematically shaping the brains of another species': Study reveals full impact of selective dog breeding
- A sprawling estate with a country house, cottages and a huge swathe of woodland, set just minutes from Glasgow
- Country Life Today: Seals living happily in the River Thames, and how Harris Tweed's top producer has been kept safe from rapacious corporate takeover
- Jason Goodwin: The dark, chilly undercurrents in the seemingly-idyllic life of the English village
September 2nd
- Alastair Cook on cricket and farming: 'Nature, like international sport, can be simultaneously cruel and wonderful'
- Ancient mosaic 'unique in Roman Britain' to be re-buried, despite hundreds of hours spent revealing it to the world
- Scotland's most expensive private house comes up for sale for the second time since 1796
- The beautiful works of art made from butterflies' wings — but only after they've died from natural causes
- A country house for sale in a picture-perfect valley near Inverness from where you can get down to London in just over an hour
- Ewenny Priory: The 900-year-long story of a delightful, complex place full of questions and conundrums
- Country Life Today: The No-deal Brexit house price crash
- My Favourite Painting: Lachie Stewart
September 1st
- Two beautiful country homes for sale, as seen in Country Life
- How to win show prizes with your fruit and vegetables, by a former champion-turned-judge
- The special magic of rattan, the furniture which almost forces you to recline languorously and have fun