All content Archive | February 2022

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February 28th
- Will the Chinese tiger pounce in 2022?
- 10 top locations to invest in international property in 2022
- A home just outside Chelmsford bursting with period features, complete with detached barn thats ideal as home office, party space and more
- My favourite painting: Annie Sloan
February 27th
- A West Country idyll for sale, including a glorious house from 1650, six acres of countryside and a barn crying out for a new lease of life
- The 15th-century country house
February 26th
- A home that'll challenge your views of what a country house should be, built on the site of the defining battle of English history
- Curious Questions: Why do cats have whiskers?
- Dog photography: How to capture perfect pictures of your pooch
February 25th
- A gorgeous Hampshire home once built as a farmhouse, now reimagined as a home for entertaining, with party barn and bar
- In Focus — Beatrix Potter: Remarkable, doughty, gifted, intimidating, and a child who just never grew up
February 24th
- Farming Life: 'The scale of the inflation is boggling... The January price for our milk is double what we did our budgets on'
- A 'country estate in miniature' for sale just a few miles from Henley, with beams, cottages and a tennis court
February 23rd
- Curious Questions: Do earwigs go in your ears?
- A glorious clifftop home in the village of Beer where you'll just want to drink in the views
- Country Life 23 February 2022
February 22nd
- Planting big trees: What you need to know
- One of of the finest homes in Worcester has come up for sale — and it's a glorious blend of 1820s and 2020s
- Joyce DiDonato: 'Lockdown was the sabbatical I really needed, but would never have given myself'
February 21st
- Christening and Confirmation presents to cherish for a lifetime, from Cassandra Goad
- A truly imaginative oast house conversion that's created a simply breathtaking home in the Kent countryside
- My favourite painting: Martin Brudnizki
February 20th
- A stunning former brewery that was once owned and run by Scott of the Antarctic's parents
- The best potato varieties to grow in a British garden
- The 550-year evolution of Queens' College, Cambridge
February 19th
- An utterly enchanting cottage in Cornwall that's straight out of a fairy tale
- Curious Questions: Should you bring a snowdrop into the house?
- Poodles: Bright, questioning and surprisingly hardy — and 'once you're an owner, you won't switch'
February 18th
- How to make stuffed butternut squash with bangers and mash
- A small country estate nestled amongst 23 acres of rolling Cornish countryside, just a stone's throw from Falmouth — for sale for £1.85 million
- In Focus: The oldest known map of the cosmos, and the detectorists who sold an £8m find for just £13,000
February 17th
- A 23-bedroom house with three cottages, exquisite Georgian stable block and a walled garden
February 16th
- Country Life 16 February 2022
February 15th
- A sprawling Derbyshire country pile with stables, cottages to let, its own pub and mini-Versailles walled garden
- Carla Carlisle: 'Truth is a rock. Chip away at it enough and you end up with gravel, then sand'
February 14th
- Muswell Hill: The London spot whose views are 'unrivalled for beauty’, with 'a snapshot of the whole of London in front of you'
- My favourite painting: Tarka Russell
February 13th
- 16 wonderful homes for sale, as seen in Country Life
- How to stop resource guarding in dogs, by Ben Randall
- Alan Titchmarsh: The best gardening books in my library of 5,000 volumes
- Queens' College, Cambridge: The seat of learning that helped set the mould for Cambridge's most beautiful colleges
February 12th
- A splendid stately property within striking distance of London that features a magnificent Victorian ballroom
- Curious Questions: Who is Maris Piper?
- The story of the red telephone box, one of the iconic emblems of 20th century Britain
February 11th
- Nine of the best potting sheds and potting tables
- A beautifully-restored Tudor home flooded with light, surrounded by five acres of rolling Kent countryside
- In Focus: The Hamilton Aphrodite, 'the finest ancient sculpture ever to have resided in Scotland', and how it smashed its £3 million auction estimate
February 10th
- The transformation of an old Cotswolds farmhouse into a beautiful eight-bedroom house
- An exquisite Georgian house in the Suffolk countryside with a 32ft ballroom and 'magical' gardens that have been 35 years in the making
- How to make honey and soy chicken that's a mouthwatering way to get kale onto your plate
February 9th
- How to eat seasonally in February, by Tom Parker Bowles
- An irresistibly original medieval house with its own moat, exquisite kitchen and its own pub within the grounds
- Country Life 9 February 2022
February 8th
- A Cambridgeshire cottage that's right on the village green — and the house next door is an ancient abbey
- Jonathan Self: The greatest novel of the 20th century? Maybe, but 'Ulysses' still sent me to sleep within three pages
February 7th
- A lovely Cotswold idyll with 31 acres of land to play with and outstanding views
- My favourite painting: Richard Anderson
February 6th
- An entire wing up for sale at a castle in Kent where Henry VII was a regular visitor, and where lawn tennis was born
February 5th
- Curious Questions: Do tear-free onions actually stop you crying when you chop them?
- Rosie and Jim: The bittersweet experience of saying goodbye to your beloved childhood home
- One of the oldest houses in Chelsea has just come up for sale — not that you'd guess its age from the interior...
February 4th
- A breathtaking ground floor apartment in a Victorian country house with a wonderful courtyard and expansive terrace overlooking the grounds beyond
- Investment strategies to counter rising inflation
- A striking Arts-and-Crafts house in Wiltshire with a glorious racing past
- In Focus: How Constable moved from peaceful and bucolic to radical and expressive
February 3rd
- An achingly pretty former village forge in Hampshire that's a beautiful example of the quintessential country cottage
- An equestrian home in Buckinghamshire with delightful period features and gorgeous country views
February 2nd
- A beautiful old Grade II-listed school crying out for restoration, for sale at just £500k
- Country Life 2 February 2022
February 1st
- A grand Victorian stone house on the edge of a popular commuter village in the Northumberland countryside that offers the best of both worlds
- Exquisite views, perfect privacy and a setting among camellias, rhododendrons and azaleas at this Arts-and-Crafts property in Cornwall
- Jason Goodwin: 'We have enough stuff to last us for a generation. We are at Peak Gubbins. What we do not use and re-use gets plastered across beaches in the South China Seas'