All content Archive | October 2020

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October 31st
- The Llyn Peninsula AONB: Spectacular views, tragic tales and the rarest apple in the world
- Packwood House to Baddesley Clinton, a snatched last walk of this lovely, if strange summer
October 30th
- A detached Georgian house in Bath with all the grace and charm of the city's famous terraces
- In Focus: The Glasgow Boys, the Scottish painters inspired by an iconic French Naturalist
October 29th
- A spectacular artist's townhouse for sale in Bath, three doors down from the former home of a princess
October 28th
- Creating the house of your dreams with Janine Stone
- Frankie Dettori's former home has come up for sale, with stables and manege exactly as beautiful as you'd expect
- Patrick Barkham: 'Part of the reason for the mental-health crisis is the disconnect with Nature... access to green space should be a right'
- Country Life 28 October 2020
October 27th
- A glorious Victorian home with 21st mod cons, complete with a magnificent treehouse for children of all ages
- Jason Goodwin: 'Kieth knew three men who died by falling — it would have been four if he and his mate hadn’t caught the fellow as he toppled from the oversail'
October 26th
- Where I work: Chris Blackwell, record producer and hotelier
- Four truly incredible homes for sale across the world
- My Favourite Painting: Nick Herbert
October 25th
- An idyllic Georgian home in Scotland with its own loch, complete with waterfall and boathouse
- Mulberries: Firmer than a blackberry, juicier than a raspberry, and squirtier than any other fruit
- The Great Hall at Hampton Court, the building that 'brings the visitor closer to the world of Henry VIII than any other'
October 24th
- A vast, spectacular and immaculate hall for sale that was once the seat of one of the most powerful families in Shropshire
- Curious Questions: Why does Scotland have 30,000 lochs, but only one lake?
- Nine dazzlingly beautiful images from Landscape Photographer of the Year 2020
October 23rd
- In Focus: The incomparable photography of Helmut Newton
October 22nd
- A grand, 10,000sq ft hall in Yorkshire with moat, and a secret garden
- How to make the simple leek into a sumptuous supper, the Tom Parker Bowles way
October 21st
- Mass exodus to the country, WFH hotspots and what buyers really look for take centre stage in latest property research
- Reacting to a global pandemic: Opportunities, discipline, and what happens in life after lockdown
- Country Life 21 October 2020
October 20th
- The Utterly Inessential Shopping List: A watch that's older than planet earth, the ultimate bowl for tasteful dogs and saving the planet via the medium of cashmere
- Three mesmerising historic homes for sale across the Continent, from a Venetian palazzo to a villa with its own aqueduct
- Agromones: 60 years on from DDT, we're still unleashing forces we don't property understand — we really do need our heads examined
October 19th
- Wood Hall: A beautiful Norfolk estate that's been in the same family for a century and a half, including a house with the 'perfect party kitchen'
- My Favourite Painting: Kit Kemp
October 18th
- 16 homes, from castles and cottages to converted churches, as seen in Country Life
- The prehistoric plants that shine indoors and out, with spectacular grandeur, grace and a feel softer than cashmere
- Simon Jenkins: Britain’s historic houses are, for the most part, safe — that is not true of the countryside
- The thrilling, funny and scarcely believable stories behind the amazing photographs from the 2020 Wildlife Photographer of the Year
October 17th
- Bowden Park, one of England's great estates, has comes to the market at £35 million
- Curious Questions: How did the tea bag take over from loose leaf tea?
- Travelling the Wye Valley: Castles, books and 'a secret place only Herefordians know'
October 16th
- An estate in the Brecon Beacons for sale that's family home, sanctuary, working farm and business opportunity rolled into one
- In Focus: How Pimlico went from Mozart's playground to a world-famous hub for design and antiques
October 15th
- How to make proper Italian pizza in the back gardens of Sussex
October 14th
- A simple guide to identifying British trees
- Country Life 14 October 2020
October 13th
- The Utterly Inessential Shopping List: The smartwatch equivalent of a 110-blade penknife, time-travelling teddy bears and a sewing kit that's cross-stitch meets clock-stitch
- Four properties which have a touch of Country Life in the heart of London
- Lucy Baring: 'It's unnerving being taught life lessons by someone who's just left school'
October 12th
- The lighting designers helping bring light to impoverished communities
- An interior designer's beautiful home for sale, with exquisite touches — and even better views
- My Favourite Painting: Simon Gillespie
October 11th
- Four properties for sale, including a converted water tower, as seen in Country Life
- Alliums: What to grow and how to grow them, from Elephant Garlic to Babington's Leek
- The salvation of Sudeley Castle: How one of the finest castles in the Cotswolds was saved from ruin
October 10th
- A magical cottage for sale in the Brecon Beacons, complete with a 'baby castle' annexe
- Curious Questions: Why is gin flavoured with juniper?
- The Bogs of Britain, from 'godforsaken wasteland full of dangers' to one of our key tools in tackling climate change
October 9th
- A Drink for All Seasons: Five fine alcohol-free tipples to see you through Sober October
- 11 of the best new ideas in kitchens, from 'levitating' kitchen units to the ultimate wine fridge
- An iconic American billionaire's palatial bolthole for sale in the heart of Hardy's Wessex
- In Focus: The joy of sketch — or how drawing beats snapping pictures with your smartphone
October 8th
- Should we re-roof Tintern Abbey, and re-erect the fallen stones of Stonehenge?
- An 11-bedroom, Grade I-listed home with superb original interiors and spectacular terraced gardens
October 7th
- The South Devon AONB: Rolling hills, endless beaches and ancient landscapes that Man has walked for millennia
- Country Life 7 October 2020
October 6th
- The Utterly Inessential Shopping List: A city girl's guide to surviving the Scottish Highlands
- A spectacular clifftop home set in its own 'secret valley' with 'total privacy, protection from the winds and the best sea views in Devon'
- A fine Devon home set beside the river in acres of mature woodland
- Jonathan Self: The Irish words for a visit to neighbours, from airneál for a sing-song, bothántaíoch for telling old stories — and scoraíocht if you're there to gossip
October 5th
- Where I Work: Huw Edwards-Jones, master craftsman and canoe maker
- My Favourite Painting: Michael Sandle
October 4th
- 19 wonderful country houses for sale, as seen in Country Life
- Iford Manor: How Harold Peto created a Wiltshire masterpiece that 'that turns the ordinary into the extraordinary'
- Sudeley Castle: The tumultuous tale of one of the finest castles in the Cotswolds
October 3rd
- Grandeur, splendour and practicality in two homes for sale that make it easy to live in your own castle
- Curious Questions: Who invented the cardboard box?
- A weekend in Cambridge: What to do, where to eat, where to stay
- Painswick Rococo Garden: Hidden pavilions and romantic copses, watched over by the god of woodland revels
October 2nd
- A Drink for All Seasons: Oktoberfest at home, honey beer and the nearest thing you'll get to drinking a cake
- A home in the Quantocks which rose from the ashes, now seeking a new owner
- In Focus — The Cotswolds silversmith: 'We make beautiful works of art to last for hundreds of years'
October 1st
- How the great children's literature of the 19th century inspired some of the great domestic architecture of the 20th
- A grand Scottish country house presented in simply perfect style, with an indoor pool from where you can look out at red squirrels playing on the lawn