All content Archive | April 2024

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April 30th
- Cameron
- The mystery of the hedge: How an exhibition on these living walls seeks to explain our fascination with their place in the landscape
- Country Life 1 May 2024
- 14 breathtaking houses, from £600,000 to £17 million, as seen in Country Life
- Millie Pilkington: Photographing dogs, movie stars and the Royal Family
- 'Somebody in North London wondered if four plump squirrels would be beyond my remit and a chef in Camberwell wants enough venison offal for a pop-up event'
April 29th
- Everything that's wrong with housing in Britain — and how to put it right
- An £8 million gem that is 'the sort of country house we all dream of', less than 90 minutes from London
- The chair of the National Gallery names his favourite from among the 2,300 masterpieces — and it will come as a bit of a shock
April 27th
- Is this the best holiday house to rent on Cornwall’s north coast?
April 26th
- The 10 cheapest cities for first-time buyers, where getting on the housing ladder can still be done for £100k
- Caravaggio: The brutal life and early death of the sinner who painted saints
- An irresistible 'gardener's paradise' in Somerset that's on the market for the first time in 52 years
April 25th
- 'Not cheap... but cheaper than a divorce lawyer': Why it pays to hire a consultant to choose the perfect paint colour
- 18 of the best places across Britain to go and see bluebells this spring
- An achingly modern five-bedroom home in Kent that's perfect for horse lovers
April 24th
- Sterrekopje: A centuries-old sanctuary hidden in a blessed corner of South Africa
- 'Seagull Boy' aged nine from Derby copies seagull, wins European Championship
- 14 things to book today to make the most of the 2024 Summer Season
April 23rd
- Rosanna Bossom Limited
- 'As if a cathedral had been flooded with turquoise waters': The Spanish hotel where Gothic and stained glass meet time off in the sun
- A converted barn in West Sussex with some of the most sumptuous advertising copy we've ever read
- Country Life 24 April 2024
- An oak-timbered home in a picture-perfect Surrey village with pub, church and village hall, and under an hour from central London
- Jonathan Self: These are a few of my favourite things (audio version)
April 22nd
- A stunning house on the Surrey/Sussex border 'that's more like being in the Scottish Highlands' than the commuter belt
- Behind the scenes at Blenheim Palace, from the £40m leaky roof to towing visitors stuck in muddy fields
- Could using a buying agent save you money?
- 'A wonderful reminder of what the countryside could and should be': The 200-year-old watercolour of a world fast disappearing
April 21st
- Upon reflection: How to buy an antique mirror
- Five staggering country homes, all commutable to London, from £2.5m to £18m
- Rough collies: The dogs made famous by Lassie that are hardy, clever, agile, and 'good for the soul'
- The magnificent buildings of Lancing College
April 20th
- A gorgeous Victorian country house with its own private gate on to Windsor Great Park
- 'Within a month, one was eaten by a tiger, one was burned alive, five disappeared and the sole survivor emerged with 7,000 specimens': The unique passion engendered by orchids
- Curious Questions: Was music's famous 'Lady of the Nightingales' nothing more than a hoaxer?
- The garden of Midsummer House: An Oxfordshire gem that's small but perfectly formed
- Clayoquot Wilderness Lodge: The west at its wildest, showiest self
April 19th
- RW Armstrong
- Britain's most expensive street outside London, where homes average £2.6 million — and a bare plot is up for sale at £5.5m
- Getting a wiggle on: How 're-wiggling' our rivers can save our countryside
- A former racecourse in Cambridgeshire with 200 acres that is waiting for a new lease of life
- One of the 'prettiest little houses in London' for sale, right next door to the house where AA Milne wrote Winnie the Pooh
- The ancient decorative painting technique enjoying a revival 2,000 years after being the talk of Pompeii
April 18th
- Rose of Jericho
- Tom Parker Bowles shares his sublime fish pie recipe, but with a few rules attached
April 17th
- A Norfolk home with six bedrooms and some of the finest interiors is up for sale for only the third time since the 1700s
- The neglected weed with 100 different names that 'deserves more than a passing thought'
- A musician's paradise at a Georgian rectory in one of Dorset's most beautiful (and most unfortunately named) valleys
- Rare-breed poultry and pigs on the decline according to latest Rare Breed Survival Trust Watchlist
April 16th
- Country Life 17 April 2024
- A surfer's ideal home? The Cornwall seaside haven just yards from the beach in the village of Polzeath
- Jason Goodwin: When gaucho chic in Dorset becomes something 'between instrument of torture and decommissioned nuclear reactor'
April 15th
- Emma Sims-Hilditch: The reinvention of the country house
- Six breathtaking houses for sale, from a converted mill to a 1,000-acre estate, as seen in Country Life
- A glorious medieval hall in Norfolk with England's largest brick-built Tudor barn, a moat, and nine acres
- The Legacy: Philip Wayre, the man who saved the otter
April 14th
- What to collect when you're collecting
- When sheds become art: The 'mini temples' that stand proud on 200-year-old allotments
- How to stop a puppy waking up at 5am, by award-winning dog trainer Ben Randall
- 'One of the great landmarks of the Sussex coast', finally finished some 156 years after work was started
April 13th
- A recently refurbished Jacobean hall with 100 acres, a clocktower, lake, gardens and events business
- Curious Questions: Who wrote the Happy Birthday song?
- 19,000 miles of exquisite beauty: Britain's incomparable coastline
- How to make a garden good enough for Country Life from scratch
April 12th
- The British Museum is at a nadir in its fortunes — it's a brave person stepping up to take charge
- After a quick house sale? Here’s where to look
- 150 years of the Impressionists, being celebrated in Paris and London
April 11th
- Minette Batters: We need to trade on a level playing field
- Farmers warn of looming food crisis after 'wettest winter in 150 years'
- An unlisted Arts-and-Crafts home in one of Cornwall's most desirable villages
- Asparagus and prawn pappardelle with chorizo that sings of Spring
April 10th
- The Dos and Don'ts of decorating your house free of inhibitions
- Six of the finest gardens in Britain, but only one can be the winner
- A gorgeous house in Devon with 12 acres of land priced at just £250,000... but there is a teeny, tiny catch
- The woodpecker's maracas and the duets of owls: Why Nature is the unbeatable soundtrack of Spring
April 9th
- The history behind London's latest power-station conversion
- Country Life 10 April 2024
- A £6.5m super-prime home in Devon: The 'best of both worlds' seaside home right across the water from Devon's most expensive town
- Once the home of the Elgin Marbles, now a luxury four-bedroom apartment in Mayfair and yours for £26.25 million
- Opinion: I'm a vicar — and an agnostic. Here's why that makes sense.
April 8th
- The Badminton Horse trials at 75
- How to create a serene, yet hard-working kitchen
- A five-bedroom home that's a mile south of Farnham and a mile north of the South Downs
- The Legacy: Sir Joseph Banks, the naturalist who created Kew
April 7th
- 21 fine homes for sale from £300k to £5.5 million, as seen in Country Life
- How to grow lovage — and the reasons why you'd want to bother
- How to help a rescue dog with food issues and separation anxiety, by expert trainer Ben Randall
- Cluny Castle: Granite, grandeur, and testimony to the exceptional wealth of its creator
April 6th
- A wildly dramatic clifftop home built by the man who escaped the Cornish tin mines to become an international diamond trader
- Curious Questions: Who was the first person to take a driving test?
- An 18th century gem that's immaculate inside and out, with beautiful interiors, spa pool and outstanding equestrian facilities
- Five of the most amazing mazes according to a man who makes them
April 5th
- Why kitchens are going green — literally
- Curious Questions: Why does our tax year start on April 6th?
- A Georgian masterpiece is for sale that's somehow escaped listed building status
- Carla Carlisle: 'Sometimes, repetition brings revelation'
April 4th
- Lucy Cunningham Interiors
- A 'labour of love' that's literally on top of one of Cornwall's most beautiful surfing spots, on the market for the first time in its history
- The house in Wales where there are so many bees honey comes out of the walls
- A house in a valley in Devon that's actually seven houses in a valley in Devon
- Exclusive: First look at trailer for 'Wilding', the documentary of the Knepp Estate
- Spring onion beignets that are perfect for dipping and dunking
April 3rd
- Why do we get so many April showers?
- A 112-acre estate in Hardy country with nine bedrooms and glorious gardens that is far from the madding crowd
- 'Where birds and a wild Englishman roamed': The world's first nature reserve granted listed status
April 2nd
- Harris Bugg Studio
- An island retreat with 27 bedrooms and a swirling staircase on the Queen of the Hebrides
- Country Life 3 April 2024
- A contemporary Sussex home with a cinema room taken from the First Class section of a Jumbo Jet
April 1st
- A gorgeous old rectory which featured in a Thomas Hardy Novel, for sale in one of Dorset's most deliciously-named villages
- The real meaning of Easter, and how to make a vicar's dog collar from a Bounty bar
- From organic pools to £100k huts, the seven trends defining the housing market today
- Patrick Galbaith: If you don't keep using your local pub and butcher, you won't have a community worthy of the name
- A look inside Derek Jarman's Prospect Cottage