All content Archive | March 2023

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March 31st
- Fantastic lights and where to find them
- A castle saved for the ages — and now you can rent it by the weekend
March 30th
- Lalage Beaumont: Bags of style
- Whose coos are whose? The five types of pigeon you’ll see in Britain
- A captivating 14th century home where medieval charm meets hotel-style pool and über-smart kitchen in Kent's best kept village
- How to make creamy chicken and spring-onion cobbler
March 29th
- An utterly charming old rectory in the village where Sir Christopher Wren grew up
March 28th
- Country Life 29 March 2023
- How sniffer dogs have moved on from drugs and bombs to Japanese knotweed
- The solution to the second home problem? A charter that would ensure second home-owners enrich and support communities
- Patrick Galbraith: 'Rather than asking if she could be next up for a pigeon, she quit. Her liking for oat milk should have given the game away'
March 27th
- A cleverly-converted 14th century village hall that’s taken on a new lease of life in Worcestershire
- My Favourite Painting: Marie Soliman
March 26th
- Five country homes for those with deep pockets, as seen in Country Life
- Grow your own tomatoes: What to plant, when to plant them and how to make sure they thrive
- How to train your dogs around your gardening, by expert trainer Ben Randall
- Church Cottage, Humbleton: The school that became a picture-perfect country house
March 25th
- A truly incredible medieval house in West Sussex where even the front door is 1,000 years old
- Curious Questions: Why do churches have gargoyles?
- Brown's Hotel review: Is this the most family-friendly place to stay in London?
- U2's Adam Clayton: Guitarist, rock god and visionary gardener
March 24th
- An almost absurdly picturesque thatched cottage in rural Dorset — and it's priced under £400,000
- A 13th-century grange for sale with stone floors, open fires and gothic arches for doorways
- What you need to know if you're building a new house from scratch
- J.R.R. Tolkien: The life and times of the lord of the books
March 23rd
- Where to see red kites, the birds which have been 'the biggest species success story in UK conservation history’
- 'The last red squirrel in Dumfries — if it comes to that — is most likely to be predated by a pine marten'
- A picturesque stone cottage has come up for sale in the Peak District National Park
- A superb salmon dish to bring out the best in the new crop of Jersey Royals
March 22nd
- The 'Sheffield Chainsaw Massacre' inquiry report: 227 pages of dishonesty and shocking behaviour
- An idyllic thatched cottage with pond, treehouse — and an absolutely unforgettable name
- How to adopt a dog without it upsetting the pets you already have, by top trainer Ben Randall
- Tetrad's fine furniture: Traditional craft and timeless styles since 1968
- Drummonds bathrooms: 35 years of timeless luxury
- Country Life 22 March 2023
March 21st
- John Evans Interior Architecture & Design Ltd
- Jonathan Self: 'Everyone deserves to engage with Nature, but enough is enough'
March 20th
- A spectacularly converted 15th century watermill with original beams, glorious surroundings and a minstrels' gallery
- Porta Romana
- Great British Architects: Charles Barry
- My Favourite Painting: Martin St Quinton
March 19th
- Five truly spectacular country houses for sale, from £1.5 to £7.25m
- There are over 1,000 different citrus fruits out there — and you owe it to yourself to try something a little different
- What to do if your dog keeps barking when you leave the house, by A-list trainer Ben Randall
- Chandler’s House: Style with sympathy, as 18th century architecture meets 21st century flourish
March 18th
- A spectacular and sprawling mansion in Suffolk — and it's completely free of listed status
- Curious Questions: What's the difference between a labyrinth and a maze?
- Open plan or keep things separate? There is another way, as this farmhouse kitchen shows
March 17th
- Property Talk: Why are there so many different ways of measuring house prices?
- An 'astonishing beauty' of a house has come up for sale just outside Guildford
- Skirting World
- How Sir Giles Gilbert Scott left an indelible mark on London — and how that infuriated his critics
March 16th
- A beautiful Arts-and-Crafts home in a town with a beach, castle and award-winning ice cream
- Tom Parker Bowles: All hail the glory of the gratin
March 15th
- Sign up for the Country Life newsletter
- A grand entrance hall, acres of secluded garden and huge amounts of space in a beautiful house for sale in Kent
- The 870-mile Wales Coastal Path cost £14.6 million — and it's truly money well spent
- How to stop your dogs waking up too early, by top trainer Ben Randall
- Country Life 15 March 2023
- Woolf Interior Architecture & Design
March 14th
- An Elizabethan home with exquisite panelling, a grand hall, and overflowing with character from the ancient walls
- Celandine: The delicate flower, harbinger of spring, which Wordsworth thought more beautiful than daffodils
- The fate of Ruperra Castle 'is a national scandal'
- Holland Green
- The Utterly Inessential Mother's Day list: 16 gifts guaranteed to either surprise or delight
- 'One of the finest townhouses in East Anglia' hits the market in Bury St Edmunds
- Jason Goodwin: 'He thought his wife had punched him — but he was down the pub with a six-inch knife sticking out of his back'
March 13th
- The A to Z of the Cheltenham Festival, from Arkle to Zarkander
- Country charm, village atmosphere and city delights at this irresistible Edwardian house near Richmond
- My Favourite Painting: Alistair Smith
March 12th
- 22 wonderful homes for sale from just £110,000 to over £17m, as seen in Country Life
- Horatio's Garden: The life-changing gardens that 'give you hope and take away the darkness'
- Must Have Bins
- What to do if all else has failed and you can't handle your dog, by expert trainer Ben Randall
- Sir Christopher Wren: The life and times of a legendary architect, from 'miracle of a youth' to national treasure
March 11th
- Curious Questions: Where do the names of our weights and measures come from?
- Down Hall review: A country house hotel retreat where you can try out the sport which has the A-listers buzzing
- How to start your own cutting garden, by three of Britain's most successful flower growers
March 10th
- Property Talk: The Dorset estates which show new-builds at their best — and (occasionally) their worst
- A day in the life of an oak tree, from mistle thrush in the morning to mice at midnight
March 9th
- Antarctica: Why the world’s last wilderness is best explored from a luxury cruise ship
- A sprawling and elegant house created by one of the great Arts-and-Crafts architects of the 20th century
- Michel Roux Jr: My eight favourite dishes of a lifetime
March 8th
- Clifton College
- Would-be dog owners urged to buy British by the Kennel Club
- Titter ye not — Frankie Howerd's Kensington townhouse is for sale, and it's a beautiful home in an iconic London square
- The craftswomen who weave — and paint — their magic on Rolls-Royce's spectacular cars
- Are you overtraining your dog? The signs to look for, and how to put it right
- Country Life 8 March 2023
March 7th
- Arts and STEM: How the best schools are getting the right balance between science and creativity
- A glorious country house with library, gym and treehouse, in a hamlet a stone's throw from Guildford
- Carla Carlisle: Thirty years ago, our farm was on life support. It now thrives — and has 45 people on the payroll
March 6th
- A beautiful 15th century house that was home to a supermodel caught up in the Profumo scandal
- My favourite painting: Debbie Wiseman
March 5th
- Seven superb country houses for sale, as seen in Country Life
- How to grow fritillaries
- How to stop a dog nipping or biting when it's excited, by expert trainer Ben Randall
- The buildings of Winchester College: 'An extraordinary tapestry of architecture and spaces'
March 4th
- An amazing Victorian villa in the grounds of an ancient palace, yet under 10 miles from central London
- Curious Questions: Can you hear the Northern Lights?
- Frogs: Why we love them, why we don't, and the real-life Kermit frog
- The Azores: A land lost to time and Nature and Europe's answer to Hawaii
March 3rd
- Lighting that's delighting: Five new looks to inspire you
- A delightful 17th century thatched cottage for sale in a magical corner of the New Forest
- Property Talk: How the property market has changed in the three years since the Pandemic
- How 'levelling-up' in the Arts has backfired for regional theatres: 'It's the guillotine, not the salami-slicer'
March 2nd
- How to eat seasonally in March: Tom Parker Bowles shares tips and recipes
- The birds that mate for life — and the birds that belong in a Jilly Cooper novel
- A magnificent country home in Hampshire that dates back to the Jacobean period is now on the market for £5 million
March 1st
- Bedales School
- 'One of Somerset’s most iconic buildings' — built by Henry VII’s mother — is up for sale
- You don't need to teach your dog to lie down, but you do need to nail the 'sit' command — by top trainer Ben Randall
- Country Life 1 March 2023