All content Archive | January 2024

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January 31st
- 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
January 30th
- 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"
January 29th
- 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
January 28th
- 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
January 27th
- 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
January 26th
- 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
January 25th
- 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
January 24th
- 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
January 23rd
- 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
January 22nd
- 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
January 21st
- 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
January 20th
- Privacy personified at this Suffolk home with its own 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
January 19th
- 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
January 18th
- 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
January 17th
- 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
January 16th
- 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
January 15th
- Plant trees for pollinators in need with the Woodland Trust
- Winston Churchill had his cakes and ate them
- My favourite painting: Keith Halstead
January 14th
- 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
January 13th
- 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
January 12th
- 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
January 11th
- Bustling village life and bountiful countryside walks, all for under £600,000
- A Jerusalem-artichoke chowder that's a perfect warming winter soup
January 10th
- 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
January 9th
- 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'
January 8th
- 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
January 7th
- Alan Titchmarsh: Change your plants, buy a greenhouse, erect a shed — do something to shake up your garden this winter
January 6th
- 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
January 5th
- 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?'
January 4th
- 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
January 3rd
- 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'
January 2nd
- Country Life 3 January 2024
- Starting a blog in 2024? Here are three useful photo and video editing tools to give it an upgrade
January 1st
- 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
- Moulding – The Country House Builder