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January 2024 Archive

112 articles

31 January
Organic farmed salmon is a 'misnomer' and certification should stop, claim fish conservation charities
Janey Butler: The best of old and new
A classic Georgian country house that's perfectly secluded amid woodland, orchards and lawns
30 January
A three-bedroom Cornish cottage with the only 'blowing house' left in the county
83% of England's rivers show 'high pollution' levels as sewage and agricultural waste flow into the waterways
Country Life 31 January 2024
From Hay Wain to Hampstead: Constable's London house comes up for sale
Patrick Galbraith: "'You sound clever, but you’re really stupit,' he told me. Buoyed by his charm, I stepped outside"
29 January
Far better than its bite — what's really going on in the secret world of tree bark
An amazing opportunity to go off grid in the middle of the Northumbrian countryside
My Favourite Painting: Ashley Campbell
28 January
Room with a cru — how an 'enduring legacy of lockdown' is the latest must have in interior design
Seven outstanding rural homes for sale, as seen in Country Life
Alan Titchmarsh: The art and craft of the head gardener
How to teach a dog to sit: Five tips from leading dog trainer Ben Randall
This 321-acre estate on the southern tip of Wales is a sporting fantasy that needs some love
900 years old, one careful owner: How Madresfield Court has come down the centuries in the hands of one family
27 January
An oast house within the landscape that gave birth to the National Trust
Curious Questions: Who created the Oxford English Dictionary?
How Morton Hall's owner has reinvented the art of clematis training
26 January
Norman Foster on the Country Life podcast: 'The Green Belt is one of our greatest inventions'
Six palatial homes for billionaires for sale across Britain
Churchill's dentures, Bruno's boxing glove and Hurst's boot: The strangest auction in the Cotswolds is imminent
Beautiful, sustainable, profitable: A Cumbrian farmhouse for sale that generates £200k a year
25 January
Fit for a (very small) queen — a dolls' house with running water, electricity and working lifts
Burns Night: What it is, where to go, what to do if you want to play host
Planning beyond your future
Plan to save historic church buildings is 'urgently needed', warns National Churches Trust
24 January
An insider's guide to travelling the world: Hot destinations, missing underwear and dodging volcanoes
The vegan farce that is 'bee-free' honey will spell disaster for bees, farmers and all of us
Hope for hedgehogs as new research looks to revolutionise robotic lawnmowers
23 January
Country Life 24 January 2024
Jonathan Self: Work-life balance is tosh. Coleridge knew it, and so do I.
A Victorian clocktower with its own moat, and just a stone's throw from one of Norfolk's most beautiful beaches
22 January
A Suffolk farmhouse with its own private beach, stables and 141 acres, on the open market for the first time in its history
Andy Murray: My favourite painting
21 January
Nine glorious country houses for sale, as seen in Country Life
11 glorious dahlias to plant in your garden, as chosen by the experts at the National Dahlia Collection
How to keep your dog healthy and having fun in the coldest depths of winter, by award-winning trainer Ben Randall
The War Cloister, Winchester College: A moving and elegant memorial to the Winchester boys who lost their lives in the World Wars
20 January
This 16th-century home near Hoo has been recently modernised and comes with six bedrooms, but more importantly, a fully functioning moat
Curious Questions: Why does the weather keep getting colder even when the days start getting longer?
Floral fireworks: The treasures you’ll find at the National Dahlia Collection
Coworth Park hotel review: Just another day in Paradise
Housing market expectations for 2024 are improving. Here’s why.
Janey Butler Studio
19 January
The Country Life Podcast
A dispatch box, a bottle of whisky and some frogs — estate of Baroness Betty Boothroyd going under the hammer
Those 'who have ridden roughshod over men and women they should have protected must be held accountable'
The weather lore of January that claims to predict the future
Your own little slice of Haven down in Devon
18 January
John Lewis-Stempel: On top of the mirey, merey moor, in the heart of James Herriot Country
Is your pony 'nice and fluffy' — or carrying too much weight? How warm winters are making for heavy horses
Riverside living in a New-England style hillside home
17 January
Disappear down to the south coast in this three bedroom Devon cottage
Country Life 17 January 2024
Quentin Blake’s former home for sale, and it’s as wonderfully higgledy-piggledy as his illustrations
16 January
A fireplace, a painting and a free-standing shower
Sun, snow and sublime food — why the Dolomites might be my new favourite ski spot
Tom Kerridge: 'Fish and chips on Brighton beach can be every bit as magical as a Michelin three-star restaurant'
A quintessential cottage in one of West Sussex's best villages has to be seen to be believed
Carla Carlisle: Trying to believe that people will step back from war, elect an honest man
15 January
Plant trees for pollinators in need with the Woodland Trust
Winston Churchill had his cakes and ate them
My favourite painting: Keith Halstead
14 January
Thatched, detached and unmatched: A covetable cottage in Hampshire
Mark Diacono: Chips, mash, roasted or dauphinoise — all better with your own potatoes
'My dog keeps barking at my sister — what can I do?' Canine agony uncle Ben Randall has the answer
Hollywood comes to the Home counties in a Surrey home inspired by Spanish villas and Irish castles
13 January
Scotland's sweet secrets: The estates that lit up the market north of the border last year
Why does BBC Radio 4 broadcast 'the pips' at the top of the hour?
Where art meets biology: How Anne Wright has bred some of the world's most covetable snowdrops
Dunkeld House Hotel review: A piece of Outlander filming history
12 January
The Surrey towns where 1 in 5 homes now costs over £1 million
A picture-perfect Lake District cottage that's tucked away in fairytale woodland
British Library cyber attack is a wake up call to the cultural sector
11 January
Bustling village life and bountiful countryside walks, all for under £600,000
A Jerusalem-artichoke chowder that's a perfect warming winter soup
Nicholsons Garden Design
10 January
The ultimate January sale? A £15 million Surrey estate that's now on the market at £6.75 million
Blazing summers, short winters and 15 years of erosion in a day
9 January
Country Life 10 January 2024
A picture-perfect Georgian manor with striking 1960s interiors which you have to see to believe
Dry January 'is an abomination' dreamt up by 'misery merchants who are never happier than when they’re uncomfortable'
8 January
On the night watch: The lives of Britain's nocturnal creatures
My Favourite Painting: Victoria Vyvyan
The greatest estates sold around Britain in the last 12 months
How to exercise with your dog, by expert trainer Ben Randall
7 January
Alan Titchmarsh: Change your plants, buy a greenhouse, erect a shed — do something to shake up your garden this winter
6 January
A country house that comes with a parking space for a Harrier jump jet
How to tie the only knots you'll ever need
Seeing the light: The lasting legacy of Sir John Soane
In the land of olive and vine: Why spring and autumn in Tuscany beats summer everytime
5 January
How (not) to fix up a country house, by our interiors guru Giles Kime
Twelfth Night: What it is, when it falls and why it's the biggest celebration we no longer enjoy
The 10 best interior design quotes of all time, by everyone from Winston Churchill to Nina Campbell
What will happen to house prices in 2024? Nine views from the UK's top property experts
The most incredible drinks cabinet you'll ever see: 'Who wouldn't want to have a whisky out of a hippo?'
4 January
Long Barn Gardens, Kent: The place where Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson learned how to make a garden great
Five spectacular coastal homes for sale across Britain, from £400k to £4m
How to make chestnut-and-mushroom ravioli with beurre noisette and sage
3 January
The call of the wild, from gliding past hippos on a mokoro to riding alongside cheetahs and giraffes
The lost art of letter writing: 'Opening a letter brings a nostalgic feeling of joy unrivalled in this digital age'
2 January
Country Life 3 January 2024
Starting a blog in 2024? Here are three useful photo and video editing tools to give it an upgrade
1 January
What to expect in 2024, from the Shipping News in cockney rhyming slang to a secret wolf-reintroduction
10 truly breathtaking images from Country Life to celebrate the landscapes and seasons of Britain
How to cure a hangover, by some of Britain's greatest-ever writers
Smallwood Architects
Cheltenham College
Tosca & Willoughby
Moulding & Co.